Best Gangster movies of 1970s

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Shin'ichi Chiba, Mikio Narita, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.

Actors : Rosanna Fratello, Michele Placido, Corrado Gaipa, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Antonio Racioppi,

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York, finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.

Actors : Ole Meyer, Lise Schrøder, Lene Gürtler, Jesper Langberg,
Directors : Bent Christensen,

Silva is set to be executed at the beginning of the film. Yet, later we see him again as a young-looking mysterious character. Is it the same man? He then goes after a well-known crime boss...

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Kostas Karagiorgis, Rita Bensousan, Eleni Anousaki,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Actors : Jan Sterling, Sarah Kennedy, Zalman King, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Joseph Adler,

A restaurateur unwisely misappropriates mob money in order to buy a house for his aging father.

Actors : Gösta Bredefeldt, Per Flygare, Gudrun Berg, Stig Ossian Ericson,
Directors : Per Berglund,

Based on the story a Swedish criminal gang, Salaligan, a group of young men active during 1930's, guilty of several murders and robberies.

Actors : I.S. Johar, Rekha, Sonia Sahni, Randhir Kapoor,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A male finds his life complicated after the entry of a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Yeong-il Shin, Chang-suk Kim, Sung-il Shin, Il-yong Shin,
Directors : Woo-yeol Jeon,

Four orphans who grew up together in the same orphanage, find that their lives take very different but interconnected turns. One becomes a police officer, one a postitute, and two are rival gangsters.

Actors : Marco Gelardini, Italo Gasperini, Eleonora Giorgi, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Gianni Crea,

Two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them. The ...

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, José María Caffarel, Helmut Berger, Sydne Rome,
Directors : José Gutiérrez Maesso,

The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.

Actors : Thelma Biral, Alfredo Alcón, José Slavin, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Leopoldo Torre Nilsson,

A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Milena Dravic, Bekim Fehmiu, Biserka Alibegovic,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who finally seems on the road to going straight.

Actors : Barbara Vittoria Calori, Maud Adams, Adolfo Celi, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Mario Lanfranchi,

The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.

Actors : Chun Hsiung Ko, George Lazenby, Yu Wang, Angela Mao,
Directors : Shan-Hsi Ting,

A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Bridget Pole, Harris Yulin, Denver John Collins,
Directors : John Parsons,

When government attorney Mike Mandell begins to suffer from a mental disorder that periodically transforms him into another mobster personality known as "Sonny," his strange behavior doesn't escape the notice of a narcotics agent.

Actors : Dong-hwi Jang, No-shik Park, Jeong-im Nam, Mu-ryong Choi,
Directors : Il-Ho Jang,

Yu-cheong saves the life of Mu-ryeong and the two become friends. Mu-ryeong is capatured by gangsters and beaten. Yu-cheong goes to his rescue, but the gangster's boss will only free Mu-ryeong if Yu-cheong kills his friend's father

Actors : Francisco A. Soares, Tony Vieira, Heitor Gaiotti, Claudete Joubert,
Directors : Tony Vieira,

A man has sex with a woman that he shouldn't. Her lover is a crime boss and owner of a white slave ring, and he is going to retaliate.

Actors : Simonetta Stefanelli, Richard Conte, Giancarlo Prete, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

Giancarlo Prete stars as a police commissioner out to stop local Mafia boss Don Peppino Scalise.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Rada Rassimov, Philippe Leroy, Henry Silva,
Directors : Giovanni Fago,

The kidnapping of a 6-year-old leads to a race against time between a Mafia hitman and a police commissioner. The mafioso then realizes the child must be saved in order to spare his own life.

Actors : Saeed Rad, Candy Bergen,
Directors : Amir Naderi,

Ali is a young boxer who is going to America to pursue his dream of becoming a champion, but very soon is trapped by a gangster mob. He get involved with them agreeing to follow their ...