Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Lionel Jeffries, Mark Lester, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George,
Directors : John Hough,

Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young ...

Actors : David Bailey, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : Richard L. Bare,

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast...

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Hayley Mills, Ken Hutchison, Simon Ward,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat ...

Actors : Robin Mattson, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling, Steve Sandor,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ...

Actors : Phillip Avalon, Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt,
Directors : Christopher Fraser,

The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they find themselves involved in a murder.

Actors : Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Actors : Luc Merenda, Senta Berger, Anita Strindberg, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An amnesiac man begins to think he may have lived a double life.

Actors : Analía Gadé, Lisa Leonardi, Andrés Resino, Ida Galli,
Directors : Francisco Lara Polop,

A couple, lost in thick fog, take refuge in an old mansion next to a cemetery. Strange things start to happen.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Mireille Darc, Fiore Altoviti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Al Cliver, Elizabeth Turner, John Steiner,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.

Actors : Michael Battlesmith, Ashley Brooks, Trudy Moore, George Ellis,

This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, James Whitmore, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg, Michel Piccoli, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, James Coburn, Lee Grant,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

A retired agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.

Actors : Joe Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Talia Shire, Kay Medford,
Directors : Gordon Willis,

Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

Actors : Dean Martin, Thalmus Rasulala, Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Nino Segurini, Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri,
Directors : Silvio Amadio,

A writer's secretary tries to find her missing friend and uncovers a murder plot.

Actors : Clyde Ventura, Douglas Dirkson, Sam Gilman, Claudia Jennings,

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ...

Actors : Albert Au, Tin Sang Lung, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.