Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : David Cardoso, Fernanda de Jesus, Américo Taricano, Márcia Real,
Directors : Jean Garret,

Famous crime story writer puzzles police investigator when all the women he gets involved with get murdered.

Actors : Hiroshi Nawa, Jun Aida, Reiko Ike, Yûko Kanô,
Directors : Masahiro Shimura,

The pacing is great and the ending is stark, violent and particularly satisfying.

Actors : Reid Cruickshanks, Jackie Mason, Dan Frazer, Josip Elic,

Roger Pitman (Jackie Mason), a small-time grifter and crook, works with police-detective Alex Brogan (Dan Frazer), in trapping fellow thieves with bait money. Pitman decides to take some of...

Actors : Eduard Cupák, Bohuslav Cáp, Eliska Balzerová, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Karel Steklý,

It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution ...

Actors : Núria Espert, Baptista Fernandes, Máximo Valverde, Américo Coimbra,
Directors : Rafael Moreno Alba,

A man is too busy to care and show his affection to his wife, and she founds solace and happiness in the arms of a younger man. The husbands sets a detective after proofs of her infidelity,...

Actors : Dean Selmier, Norma Kastel, Sandra Mozarowsky, Carlos Mendy,
Directors : Pedro Luis Ramírez,

Dean Selmier, Sandra Mozaroski, Victoria Vera. An 1899 London orphanage is the setting for this weird tale. There is a really cool looking monster-guy doing weird experiments on an ...

Actors : Kim Dimon, Erika Blanc, Adolfo Celi, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : Nardo Bonomi,

A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs.

Actors : Yeong-il Shin, Dae-yeob Lee, So-ra Yun, Ji-myeong Oh,
Directors : Shin-myeong Lee,

Three friends who grew up together in an orphanage, pursue various paths in their adult lives. One of the men has become a public prosecutor determined to clean up the gangs of Seoul while another of the friends is the leader of a gang.

Actors : Atash Khayyer, Saeed Rad, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Ezzatolah Entezami,
Directors : Naser Taghvai,

Sadegh and his wife manage a tea house in the way between Ahvaz and Andimeshk south of Iran. One night in his absence a friend of him who is a truck driver comes to his place and the wife ...

Actors : Madhu Chanda, Danny Denzongpa, Alka, Ajit,
Directors : Narendra Bedi,

Jhanga (Ajit) is a cruel, brutal, and heartless dacait, who has terrorized the entire countryside. The police are unable to capture him, as he has several hideouts and nearby villagers are ...

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Bruno Cremer, Mimsy Farmer, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Michel Wyn,

A young American tourist is found dead in the south of France. The possible culprits are numerous so the police investigates to discover what she's done during the five weeks she spent in France before being murdered.

Actors : Vladimír Dlouhý, Jirina Bílá, Stanislava Bartosová, Jaroslav Drbohlav,
Directors : Petr Schulhoff,

It is 1970 and taxi-driver Tomás Gross is planning to leave for Switzerland to join his great love Kamila, previously a waitress in a Prague bar. With the help of his younger brother, ...

Actors : Börje Nyberg, Gilda Arancio, Jacqueline Laurent, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Torgny Wickman,

Blackmail and desire meet for a weekend in the Swedish countryside.

Actors : Tomiko Ishii, Yukie Kagawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Makoto Naitô,

As with actor Umemiya's TEIO pictures, this is a loosely-linked series.

Actors : Patricia Loran, Fernando Marín, Paul Naschy, Anastasio Campoy,
Directors : José Luis Madrid,

Some deeds done by a Nazi in France during World War II lead to more killings in the present. Are they revenge, or is there another motive? Both civilians and police tries to solve the mystery.

Actors : Prem Nath, Ratan Chopra, Jeevan, Tanuja,
Directors : Mohan Kumar,

Ravi, the only son of wealthy widower Rai Bahadur Gangaram, falls in love with fellow-collegian, Sheel, but is shocked to find that she is to be his future step-mother. His father decides ...

Actors : Julia Saly, Heinrich Starhemberg, Paul Naschy, Carmen Sevilla,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

A jewel heist goes wrong, resulting in several deaths. Naschy is left with the loot and he takes off with the the cash before the gang is supposed to meet back up. Gang leader Frank Brana ...

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frederick Stafford, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Germán Lorente,

Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber who survived the shooting is convinced the...

Actors : Dimitris Bislanis, Natasa O'Frey, Anestis Vlahos, Nikos Verlekis,
Directors : Dimitris Galatis,

A gang of ruthless drug smugglers manipulate a girl who does everything in order to have her daily fix.

Actors : Jeong-hie Yu, Jang-kang Heo,
Directors : Man-hui Lee,

An investigation of a motorcycle gang gets sidetracked as the police unit uncovers a case of child abuse and kidnapping.