Best Gangster movies of 1970s

Actors : Luc Merenda, Mariangela Giordano, Gianni Dei, Carlos Monzón,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

Young southerner Marco Russo moves to the mafia-controlled north of Italy and finds work with the powerful Manzetti family. He then proceeds to stir the pot between the Manzettis and their top rivals the Belmondos.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Eduardo Fajardo, Malisa Longo, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Tulio Demicheli,

After 2 years in prison Ricco is released and on a path of vengeance. His father, the head of a mafia family, is gunned down by the ambitious Don Vito and now Ricco is looking to settle the score.

Actors : Fabian, Ken Miller, Ivy Thayer, Karen Black,
Directors : Luke Moberly,

Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?

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 : Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, George Peppard, Gordon Pinsent,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

In 1970s Los Angeles, honest cop Vince Newman struggles to win the battle against crime and against corruption in his own department.

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 : Annazette Chase, Philip Michael Thomas, Robert Burr, Richard Lawson,

To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Sterling Hayden, Senta Berger, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the ...

Actors : Olivia Hussey, Raf Vallone, Karl Malden, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi,

A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the now-grown boy begins to track down and eliminate the men who did it, determined to wipe out the ...

Actors : Lola Falana, Gene Washington, Millie Perkins, Alex Dreier,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.

Actors : Johnnie Hill, Emerson Boozer, Owen Watson, René Van Clief,
Directors : Michael Fink,

The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.

Actors : Norman Burton, Cesare Danova, William Smith, Connie Stevens,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker (Stevens) is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bianco (Danova).

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Domenico Santoro, Françoise Fabian, Andrea Balestri,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.

Actors : Teresa Graves, Fred Williamson, Byron Webster, Miko Mayama,

To take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, via Los Angeles, is it necessary to call on that man - Bolt? With the number of dangerous spies and gangsters who are after that briefcase, maybe Jefferson Bolt is not enough.

Actors : Phil Hoover, Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Elizabeth Stuart,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.

Actors : K. Balaji, Surulirajan, Rajinikanth, Sridevi,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A parsimonious Barbar must flee from the Police after meeting with a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Forrest Lorne, Ray Wray, Laurel Canyon, Candy Sweet,
Directors : Ray Williams,

Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult ...

Actors : Rockne Tarkington, Richard X. Slattery, Mike Lane, Glenn R. Wilder,
Directors : Joe Tornatore,

A group of Vietnam vets, tired of the depredation of the Mafia on their neighborhood, decide to take on the mob on their own terms--but by using a very different twist.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Luciana Paluzzi, Claudio Gora, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

When a crook gets framed as a drug kingpin, the mob decide to "off" his wife. Revenge is the name of the game, and the manhunt is on!