Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Claudio Camaso, Luigi Pistilli, Claudine Auger, Anna Maria Rosati,
Directors : Mario Bava,

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing ...

Actors : Carol Kane, Carmen Argenziano, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Actors : Alan Bates, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Susannah York,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A traveler by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Actors : Martin Balsam, John Cassavetes, Charlton Heston, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Judy Huxtable, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London; the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer in Staten Island. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?

Actors : Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In San Francisco, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Brandon Maggart, Andy Fenwick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Lewis Jackson,

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Actors : Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes, Chuck Norris, James Franciscus,
Directors : Ted Post,

An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.

Actors : Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Antoine Monnier, Laetitia Carcano,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ...

Actors : Manuel Gil, Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Conchita Airoldi,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, George Coe,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Actors : Enrico Maria Salerno, Flavio Bucci, Gianfranco De Grassi, Macha Méril,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.

Actors : Rupert Davies, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood, Sheila Keith,
Directors : Pete Walker,

Edmund and Dorothy Yates are freed after fifteen years in an asylum. Edmund covers up for his wife who is a murderer and a cannibal and Dorothy's daughter Debbie and stepdaughter Jackie, ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Alastair Mackenzie, Hildegard Neil, Hugh Mackenzie,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment, his life is upset.

Actors : Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye, John F. Goff, Verkina Flower,
Directors : Stu Segall,

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.