Best Crime movies of 1970s

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

Actors : Robert Blake, Gabriele Ferzetti, 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 : 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 : Sevda Aktolga, Korkut Altin, Müjde Ar, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Serif Gören,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Billy Robinson, Verne Gagne, Edward Asner, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : James A. Westman,

Promoting the world of professional wrestling at the expense of the plot itself, Frank Bass (Ed Asner) takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers, mobsters, unscrupulous ...

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

Actors : Burkhard Driest, Fritz Hollenbeck, Marianne Kehlau, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the ...

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 : Barbara Bouchet, Vittorio Sanipoli, Fausto Tozzi, Henry Silva,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

Thriller Starring Henry Silva and Barbara Bouchet. She Left Prostitution only to find Murder! Shes a former prostitute, now married to a gang boss dealing in black market currency and ...

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