Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay,
Directors : John Guillermin,

P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Ireland, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Dick Richards,

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Timothy Bottoms, George Segal,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller-coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown,
Directors : James Toback,

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Lizabeth Scott, Mickey Rooney, Michael Caine, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Arthur Hill, Robert Duvall, James Caan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the CIA, is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Segal,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Gilbert Green, Will Geer,
Directors : David Miller,

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Warren Oates,
Directors : John Milius,

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, Rock Hudson, John David Carson,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage girl murders at Oceanfront High School.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.