Best Cop movies of 1970s

Actors : Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Judy Geeson, Richard Attenborough, John Wayne,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Chicago police lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the UK to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the USA but Larkin's hit-men prepare an ambush for Brannigan.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Robert Moore,

San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Jack Kruschen, Loretta Swit, James Caan,
Directors : Richard Rush,

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.

Actors : James Mason, Susan Clark, Christopher Plummer, David Hemmings,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.

Actors : Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Gene Wilder,

The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Bennett, John Bryans,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the UK.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, Sylvia Sidney, Sandy Dennis, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."

Actors : Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Competition between privately owned LA ambulance companies is played for humor.

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 : Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Coles, William Franklyn,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (a descendant of the ...

Actors : Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : John Sturges,

Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.

Actors : Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A psychiatrist living in Vienna enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.

Actors : Victor Arnold, Roy Scheider, Jerry Leon, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Philip D'Antoni,

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his ...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

Actors : Luciano Catenacci, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Marisa Laurito,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

The navy's detective gets his brother, the ex-gambler to help him liquidate an illegal gaming house on a yacht near Miami.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Sharon Gurney, David Ladd,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland ...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Terence Hill, Marc Lawrence, Joanne Dru,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Maurice Risch, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people,...