Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Richard Harrison, Pilar Velázquez, Frank Braña, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Maurizio Pradeaux,

The mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Nello Pazzafini, Riccardo Salvino,
Directors : Domenico Paolella,

After criminal gangs wreak havoc in the streets of Italy, a take-no-guff police commissioner forms a highly trained band of motorcycle riding cops to stop them.

Actors : Annie Carol Edel, Patrizia Gori, George Eastman, Rosemarie Lindt,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Emanuelle (Lindt) is out to avenge her sister (Gori), who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo (Eastman). So she chains him up in her basement, drugs him, and ...

Actors : Jorge Luke, Charlotte Rampling, Peter O'Toole, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them ...

Actors : Lieh Lo, Ching Chen, Ping Chen, Shen Chan,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

One night a textile worker is sexually assaulted by five deviants. The young lady tries to cope with the aftermath of this dramatic event but her life is ruined.

Actors : Barry Morse, Donald Pleasence, Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the ...

Actors : Diahn Williams, Don Murray, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Ivan Nagy,

When disturbed New York City (NYPD) cop Lacy rescues Sally, a beautiful cellist, from deranged crook Rabbit by shooting Rabbit in cold blood, he sets off a spark of publicity that brands him the city's hero.

Actors : Marie Déa, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an ...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Keizô Kanie, Akemi Nijô, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A rape victim realizes that she enjoys sexual assault and continuously offers herself to be raped while searching for her original rapist.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer, Charlotte Rampling, Edwige Feuillère,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running ...

Actors : Joy Bang, Marlene Clark, Roger Garrett, Vic Diaz,
Directors : Andrew Meyer,

Horror story of a beautiful girl turns into a man-eating cobra.

Actors : Johnny Dorelli, Renzo Palmer, Yves Beneyton, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

Actors : Angélica Chain, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Actors : Priscilla House, Paul Frees, Doug Hagdahl, 'Crazy George' Henderson,
Directors : Robert L. Burrill,

A town is terrorized by a monster that was created by local environmental pollution.

Actors : John Scanlon, Angelo Infanti, Rosalba Neri, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : William Rose,

A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.

Actors : Charles Robinson, Tim Considine, David Moses, Joan Caulfield,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

Three men track down a pack of dobermans and along with a young Native American boy, train the dobermans to rob the campaign funds of a politician.

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Richard Allan, Dominique Aveline, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Patrice Rhomm,

Vicious warden Helga runs the castle penitentiary Stilberg for female political prisoners with an iron fist. Stubborn and recalcitrant new inmate Elisabeth Vogel, who's the daughter of a ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bibi Andersson, John Abbey, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Helvio Soto,

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a ...

Actors : Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer, Frank DeKova, Paul Harris,
Directors : Bill Brame,

A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.

Actors : Hilda Vera, Victoria Abril, Lautaro Murúa, Perla Vonasek,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Luis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted to him.