Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Tony King, Carl Lee, Paul Winfield, David Downing,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Henri Garcin, Jill Ireland, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Actors : Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Actors : David Niven, Timothy West, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Reynolds,

Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

Actors : Erik Estrada, Jacqueline Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson, Pat Boone,
Directors : Don Murray,

Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York street gang.

Actors : Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross, Rod Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ...

Actors : Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.

Actors : Ian McShane, Jill St. John, Edward Woodward, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Giampiero Albertini, Arthur Kennedy, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Actors : Trish Van Devere, James Coburn, Walter Pidgeon, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Bruce Geller,

A would-be criminal is taken in by a professional in the game, who teaches him how pickpockets work in teams.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coburn, Skye Aubrey,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.

Actors : Blanche Kommerell, Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Sanae Ôhori, Asao Uchida,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and ...

Actors : James Woods, Steve Railsback, Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are ...

Actors : Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However, it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men, a process that the doctors aren't particularly averse to.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ...

Actors : Saira Banu, Sulakshana Pandit, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Popular Indian leading man Amitabh Bachchan stars in HERA PHERI, a campy Bollywood musical melodrama about faded friendships and family secrets. Best friends Vijay (Bachchan) and Ajay (...