Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Randhir Kapoor, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Sadanah,

The theft of Devi Maa's statuette jeopardizes the lives of a noble family.

Actors : Carlos de Carvalho, Franco Nero, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Pier Francesco Poggi,
Directors : Alfredo Giannetti,

An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.

Actors : Yoshiko Mita, Tomoko Kihi, Saburô Kitajima, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

In all likelihood, a one-off revival of Wakayama's 11 film GOKUDO (SCOUNDREL) series, which originally finish in 1974.

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Imtiaz Khan, Zarina Wahab, Shatrughan Sinha,
Directors : Jugal Kishore,

Widower Hridaynath lives a poor lifestyle in Belapur where he works as a Head Master. Her instills national pride amongst his students and the villagers and gets them actively involved for ...

Actors : Jeff Blynn, Gianni Garko, Mario Merola, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

With the American Mafia families pooling their resources to bring huge quantities of cheap heroin into the country, it's up to customs official Ivano Radevic to allow the authorities to intercept the drugs en route to the USA.

Actors : Orçun Sonat, Richard Harrison, Aysun Güven, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Vural Pakel,

A murder witness and his sister must try to escape from two assassins who want to bring them to silence before they can testify in court.

Actors : Chung Wang, Szu Shih, Wei Szu, Lu-Min Chen,

An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend....

Actors : Brahm Bhardwaj, Master Bhagwan, Vikas Anand, Vijay Arora,
Directors : B.P. Harisinghaney,

Sunil Verma works as an Assistant with Professor Jagmohan Sinha, a Scientist. After Jagmohan conducts a successful experiment, which will benefit India, there is an accident and Sunil loses...

Actors : Maybe Smith, Sharon Masters, Angela Carnon, Carl Monson,
Directors : Dwayne Avery,

A crazed military explosives expert heads for Los Angeles with an RV full of explosives, intending to blow up a rock festival and kill all the "hippies". An army officer is sent to stop him.

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Satish Kaul, Asha Sachdev, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : S.M. Sagar,

Sheela lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widower dad, Ghanshyamdas. One day she interviews a candidate named Mahesh for the position of an Engineer. Despite of his pretending to be ...

Actors : Giuseppe Mattei, Alice Arno, Olivier Mathot, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings about the destruction of the entire gang of ruthless killers.

Actors : Mara Danaud, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Marcello Aliprandi,

During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.

Actors : Jardel Filho, Christiane Torloni, Betty Faria, José Wilker,
Directors : Oswaldo Caldeira,

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high ...

Actors : Shi-Kwan Yen, Shan Kwan, Kien Shih, Lik Cheung,
Directors : Hao Chen,

Shek Kin plays the head of a large crime family. His sons get into all sorts of trouble with the other triad bosses. They both escalate the situation with drugs and murder and create a bitter feud with a rival family.

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Mariusz Dmochowski, Aleksander Bardini, Andrzej Lapicki,
Directors : Janusz Majewski,

One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Housekeeper Rita Gorgon, who has an affair with her employer, is accused of murdering his teenage daughter.

Actors : Leonora Fani, Vincent Gardenia, Wolfango Soldati, Patricia Adriani,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A young woman returns to the country château where her mother drowned years ago. There is something haunting about the place, a supernatural ambiance.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

One of the only pre-1980s yakuza films to be dubbed-into-English.

Actors : Nancy Kwan, Carl Betz, Bobby Rydell, Sid Melton,
Directors : Eddie Davis,

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Sarika, Jeetendra,
Directors : K. Bapaiah,

Vijay (Jeetendra) is a Crime Reporter and very often helps the police in apprehending criminals. When his stepmother (Kamini Kaushal) passes away, she asks him to look after his ...