Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Lee Van Cleef, Jean Rochefort, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout.

Actors : Sevda Aktolga, Korkut Altin, Müjde Ar, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Bruce Lee, Van Williams, Lloyd Gough, Wende Wagner,

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Mayumi Nagisa, Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent.

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 : Franciszek Trzeciak, Lucyna Winnicka, Anna Nieborowska, Irena Ladosiówna,
Directors : Grzegorz Królikiewicz,

Based on a pre-war murder case of the Malisz couple. They end up committing a petty robbery and a sordid murder. He is an illustrator who is not used by a climbing architect. His folks ...

Actors : Deep Roy, Maribel Martín, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

Actors : Jacqueline Millière, Joseph Leportier, Claude Hébert, Annick Géhan,
Directors : René Allio,

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Massimo Mollica, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it.

Actors : Lorraine De Selle, Patrizia Behn, Joe Dallesandro, Gianni Macchia,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Actors : Frits Lambrechts, Jon Bluming, Anny de Lange, Rijk de Gooyer,
Directors : Frans Weisz,

Burgler and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny ...

Actors : Art Maier, Lou Bedford, Fred Williamson, Bernard Kirby,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He ...

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Mikio Narita, Kei Satô, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the ...

Actors : Flora Robson, Gayle Hunnicutt, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : Vítor Mendes, Esther Moser, Martine Stedil, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

When a woman has been found by the police she tells of being kidnapped, drugged and tortured by 'Arminda' (Lina Romay). For many years they have been trying to shut down Arminda's sex ...

Actors : Frank Wolff, Raf Vallone, Gillian Bray, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

Actors : Franco Ressel, Joan Collins, Maurizio Merli, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

An Italian private investigator tries to get to the bottom of a suspicious kidnapping case with the help of an exotic dancer

Actors : Kwok-Wah Au, Siu-Lung Leung, Yee-Hing Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Fung Wong,

Actors : Diana Dors, Harry H. Corbett, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Stanley A. Long,

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.