Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

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 : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.

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 : Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Meral Zeren, Talat Gözbak, Oktar Durukan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

A naive and simpleton villager is trying to marry the landlord's doughter, who is in love with a vigilante outlaw

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

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

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

Actors : Elliott Gould, Céline Lomez, 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 : Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Mario Adorf,

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Warren Beatty, Ian Wolfe, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Actors : Dick Gautier, Ed McMahon, George Segal, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Actors : Doris Roberts, Shirley Stoler, Mary Jane Higby, Tony Lo Bianco,

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

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 : Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.