Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...

Actors : Linda Miller, James Brolin, Richard S. Castellano, Cliff Gorman,

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Wolfgang Preiss, Florinda Bolkan, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A just released from prison professional thief decides to do one last high-risk heist, which could settle him for life or land him behind bars again.

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Paulo César Peréio, Milton Gonçalves, Ana Maria Magalhães, Reginaldo Faria,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies.

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Christopher Sandford, Barry Evans, Susan George,
Directors : Pete Walker,

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands...

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi, Claudia Demarmels, Carlheinz Heitmann,
Directors : Peter F. Bringmann,

Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe.

Actors : Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard,
Directors : Larry Yust,

Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A retired hit-man decides to take one last job to avenge the murder of his brother by a mafia gang. An eager would-be mobster helps him.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray,
Directors : René Clément,

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Actors : Kirsten Walther, Axel Strøbye, Karen Lykkehus, Bertel Lauring,
Directors : Gabriel Axel,

The Iversen family is on the verge of bankruptcy. When all the family members are fired from their jobs, one after another, when most of the furniture is confiscated , the telephone blocked...

Actors : Jorunn Kjellsby, Torgeir Schjerven, Lasse Tømte, Kjersti Døvigen,
Directors : Svend Wam,

The teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home. To Geir's alcoholic mother and to Lasse's father, who is terrorizing the entire family.

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Sal Borgese, Tomas Milian, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before ...

Actors : Danièle Ajoret, Christian Barbier, Jean Gabin, Michel Barbey,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ...

Actors : Skip E. Lowe, John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

A black hairstylist has sex with his female customers, and tries to keep the Mafia from taking over his business.

Actors : Jackson Beck, Pamela Gruen, Devin Goldenberg, Allen Garfield,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Actors : Xavier Depraz, Roland Bertin, Laura Betti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police ...

Actors : Jirina Bohdalová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michèle Morgan, Philippe Léotard, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.

Actors : Emlyn Williams, Samantha Eggar, Phyllis Calvert, David Hemmings,
Directors : Eric Till,

A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her ...