Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Noriko Kurosawa, Eiji Gô, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Rentarô Mikuni, Ken Takakura, Ryôko Nakano,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

A Japanese Warrior leaves the secretive battalion he is apart of. As a skilled soldier, he confronts evil and serves his people.

Actors : Ian Scott, James Johnson, Jerry McGee, Judith-Marie Bergan,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.

Actors : Jerzy Kulej, Ryszard Faron, Jan Szczepanski, Zdzislaw Rychter,
Directors : Marek Piwowski,

The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile ...

Actors : Per Theodor Haugen, Knut Husebø, Kari Rasmussen, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Erik Løchen,

A meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development, but which might be plain reality tomorrow.

Actors : James Booth, Richard Briers, Ronald Fraser, Julie Ege,
Directors : Jim Clark,

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both ...

Actors : Olga Karlatos, Mario Feliciani, Massimo Serato, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high ...

Actors : Lily Chakravarty, Vinod Khanna, Farida Jalal, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Gulzar,

A doctor must operate on a convicted murderer who is destined for the gallows. Running parallel to the medical drama are flashbacks to the events that led the highly-respected army officer to commit murder.

Actors : Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol, Suzanna Love, Jack Palance,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf ...

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 : Gabriele Ferzetti, Robert Blake, Ernest Borgnine, Catherine Spaak,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Boxer Teddy Wilcox (Robert Blake) leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. ...

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Tetsuya Watari, Tarô Shigaki,
Directors : Azuma Morisaki,

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works ...

Actors : Suzan Avci, Naser Malek Motiee, Tarik Akan, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Martin Balsam, Elke Sommer, Ray Lovelock, Ettore Manni,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

An undercover cop goes to jail to infiltrate a gang and uses his assignment to get revenge.

Actors : Paul Nicholas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Pierre Koralnik,

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know ...

Actors : John Wood, Tammy Grimes, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Giuliano Gemma, Giancarlo Zanetti, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Actors : Sharmila Tagore, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Sulochana Latkar,
Directors : Shankar Mukherjee,

When two lovers separated due to financial circumstance are reunited several years later under one roof, sparks fly and emotions run high. How will they resolve this relationship?