Best Crime movies of 1970

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Vsevolod Sanaev, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Oleg Basilashvili,
Directors : Anatoliy Bobrovskiy,

Inspired by actual events in the days of cold war, an escaped convict steels "Saint Luke" painting from a museum which he tries to sell to a foreign tourist. Police colonel Zorin is to save the work of art from the hands of the criminal.

Actors : Randy Whipple, Rachel Romen, Broderick Crawford, Gordon Jump,
Directors : Dewitt Lee,

A detective uses electronics to rescue a boy held for $1 million by a kidnapper.

Actors : Dong-hwi Jang, No-shik Park, Jeong-im Nam, Mu-ryong Choi,
Directors : Il-Ho Jang,

Yu-cheong saves the life of Mu-ryeong and the two become friends. Mu-ryeong is capatured by gangsters and beaten. Yu-cheong goes to his rescue, but the gangster's boss will only free Mu-ryeong if Yu-cheong kills his friend's father

Actors : Pratima Devi, Baby Gayatri, Baby Guddi, Sulochana Chatterjee,
Directors : Kolli Pratyagatma,

Kashiram lives a poor lifestyle in a small village along with his wife, Chanda; two school-going children, Suraj and Meera; and makes a living selling toys. When his father-in-law falls ill...

Actors : Dave Haller, Karen Beglan, Sandy O'Hara, Garry Achzieger,

A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy ...

Actors : Eun-suk Choi, No-shik Park, Ji-hie Choi, Mi-ja Sa,
Directors : Yeong-cheol Choi,

Conman, Wang Do-seon, cheats Cheol-su out of all his savings with a dried fish scam. Cheol-su tries to commit suicide, but is saved by his half brother. His best friend is also taken in by ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Marcel Bozzuffi, Sylva Koscina, Jacques Castelot,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Desagnat,

Marc Régent, a hit man in the pay of ruthless gang leader Marcus, refuses to gun down René, his friend. Hunted down by Marcus's men, he fakes a suicide but Marcus does not take the bait. He...

Actors : Ratan Gaurang, Faryal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Bipin Gupta,
Directors : Ram Kumar,

Rakesh and Sumesh are two plain-clothes agents in the city's Criminal Investigations Department. They have been entrusted the task of locating a missing, believed to be abducted scientist, ...

Actors : Salah Nazmi, Rushdy Abaza, Amira, Adel Adham,
Directors : Houssam El-Din Mustafa,

An adventure of money, love and betrayal in the deserts of Egypt at the site of El Alamein battle of WWII. Great locations and photography and non stop action, one of the best Egyptian ...

Actors : Milton Vilar, Marina Montini, Gil Anthony, C. Adolpho Chadler,
Directors : C. Adolpho Chadler,

Thriller about prisoners escaping to a remote shore and being pursued by the police and local people.

Actors : Ann Perry, Harvey Shain, Roger Gentry, Marsha Jordan,
Directors : Donald A. Davis,

Two former models who are now special agents are on the trail of mobsters in possession of a music book that has the coded location of a chest of gold bullion.

Actors : Leslie Parrish, Steve Drexel, Richard Davalos, Larry Pennell,
Directors : William White,

Three brothers resort to kidnapping, extortion and murder as they search the jungle for a fortune in Inca treasure.

Actors : Gösta Bredefeldt, Per Flygare, Gudrun Berg, Stig Ossian Ericson,
Directors : Per Berglund,

Based on the story a Swedish criminal gang, Salaligan, a group of young men active during 1930's, guilty of several murders and robberies.

Actors : Michiko Araki, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada (Takakura) goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. ...

Actors : Michael Kirkwood, Revel Quinn, Marland Proctor, Jae Miller,
Directors : Van Guylder,

1930's: Adam and Leroy tries to rob a cafe, but finds out that two girls are already trying to do the same. Instead of arguing with them they join them in a robbery-spree.

Actors : Vibeke Løkkeberg, Tor Stokke, Claus Nissen, Tutte Lemkow,
Directors : Pål Løkkeberg,

Den unge kvinnen Maria lever sitt overklasseliv i skyggen av sin ektemann Carl. Når hun får vite at hun skal ha barn, forsøker hun å se på seg selv i forhold til sine omgivelser. Hun blir i...

Actors : Ivan Kondov, Zhelcho Mandadzhiev, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Petar Slabakov,
Directors : Gencho Genchev,

Major Hariev, a State Security officer, manages to learn that the spying center codenamed Citadel receives encoded letters. Sometime later, the Bulgarian agent in the West reports that the ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Helen, Nanda, Rajendra Nath,
Directors : Ravikant Nagaich,

Hardworking, capable, honest and dedicated CBI inspector Shyam Kumar is assigned the case of bringing to justice the criminals behind the use of fake cheques to purchase commodities. The ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Vlastimil Brodský, Iva Janzurová, Jirina Jirásková,
Directors : Zdenek Podskalský,

A charming senior lecturer Kostohryz (Vlastimil Brodský) is an unquestionable star of the Research Institute of the Chemical Factories, admired by men and loved by women. There are two ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Keijiro Morokado, Kyôsuke Machida,
Directors : Shinji Murayama,

One of the more soulful and sentimental of the early 1970s modern day yakuza films from Toei.