Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel, Jennifer O'Neill, Gianni Garko,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth ...

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.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : John Nettleton, Pamela Franklin, Sandor Elès, Michele Dotrice,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?

Actors : Brandon Maggart, Andy Fenwick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Lewis Jackson,

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Actors : Clive Revill, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Caine,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Silvia Monti, Jean Sorel, Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?

Actors : Cristina Galbó, Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

In London, the Italian gym teacher Enrico 'Henry' Rosseni is having a love affair with his eighteen year-old student Elizabeth Seccles, who is the daughter of the owner of the Catholic ...

Actors : Céline Lomez, Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson, Cosette Lee, Robert Warner,

Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps (among others) as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy,

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Actors : O.E. Hasse, Renato Salvatori, Yves Montand, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in ...

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Parkins, Alan Alda,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Alan Alda's character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews.

Actors : Judith Brown, Brooke Mills, Pam Grier, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Actors : Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.