Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Louis Julien, Dora Doll, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.

Actors : Ping Lu, Yu Wang, Fei Lung, Ching Ching Chang,
Directors : Lung Chien,

When the Japanese massacre the people of his fishing village, the Chinese hero of this Kung Fu epic (Jimmy Wang Yu) heads to Japan seeking vengeance.

Actors : Roger Carel, Hélène Dieudonné, Yvette Maurech, Andrée de Beaumont,
Directors : Hubert Cornfield,

In this film, the local mob wipes out an entire family for revenge, with the exception of a sweet little old aunt and her two daughters. Unfortunately for the killers, the sweet little old ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Tina Aumont, Fernando Rey, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, ...

Actors : Pierre Agostino, Chuck Alford, Jim Parker, Carolyn Brandt,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

Hollywood Strangler ("Johnathan Click") kills young models... Skid Row Slasher kills winos ... What will happen when they meet?

Actors : Joseph Fürst, Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig,
Directors : Terry Bourke,

A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dutronc, Bruno Cremer, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Actors : Bob Dishy, Harvey Jason, Joanna Barnes, Bill Dana,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan, Bradford Dillman, Leslie Nielsen,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the ...

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 : Clive Revill, Roy Clark, Harry Guardino, Elliott Gould,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

Actors : Pamela Susan Shoop, Cara Williams, Jack Palance, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Charles Martin,

Officer Jim Wade is a loose cannon on the force with a reputation roughing up suspects, informants, witnesses, and just about everybody else who rubs him the wrong way. When women start ...

Actors : Gabriella Giorgelli, Klaus Kinski, Giuseppe Cardillo, Paolo Casella,
Directors : Mario Costa,

A Mexican couple, a maniacal Gringo rapist and a gang of cut-throat Mexican bandits are all after the large inheritance of a kidnapped Texas woman.

Actors : Paula Shannon, Linda Van Compernolle, Brian Klinknett, Erica Bigelow,
Directors : Frank Howard,

A mixture of documentary footage and re-enactment scenes, some filmed on the action locations, of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders committed by the gang known as the Manson Family.

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Henry Silva, Ettore Manni, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Aruna Irani, Poonam Dhillon, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

Anand lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay in a palatial house, and runs a business 'Export India'. While shopping at Roopsagar Clothing Store, he meets one of the Sales Clerks', Sharda, and...

Actors : Yoshio Harada, Ken Takakura, Ryôko Nakano, Ryô Ikebe,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Actors : Cliff Emmich, Les Lannom, William Watson, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Richard Taylor,

Lonigan and his partner Tony, two drug dealers, shoot two cops who attempt to set them up, and run away with a million bucks and the drugs, which they stash in a red Corvette Stingray in a ...

Actors : Robert Lamoureux, Christine Dejoux, Claude Piéplu, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze,
Directors : Michel Deville,

After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline who helps him with his scam.