Best Crime movies of 1974

Actors : Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing,
Directors : Jim Clark,

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Morris Carnovsky, Lauren Hutton, James Caan,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.

Actors : Clive Revill, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Caine,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy,

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Robert Blake, Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just ...

Actors : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yôko Ichiji,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Actors : Yves Afonso, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Denis, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.

Actors : Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Betty Anne Rees, Marki Bey,
Directors : Paul Maslansky,

When her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD! She entreats voodoo queen Mama Maitresse to call on Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, for help with a ...

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. ...

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 : 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 : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

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 ...