Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Christopher George, Joan McCall, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : William Girdler,

An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.

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 : Mike McEwen, Briony Behets, Roy Day, John Hargreaves,
Directors : Colin Eggleston,

When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Stephen Forsyth, Jesús Puente, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A bridal design shop owner kills various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma that's causing him to commit murder.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Ian McShane, Donald Sinden, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren, Jessie Lee Fulton, Bill McGhee,
Directors : S.F. Brownrigg,

A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, Derrel Maury,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Bo Hopkins, Shelley Winters, John Huston,
Directors : Ovidio G. Assonitis,

A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Gene Hackman, Mickey Rooney,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Wesley Eure, Nicolas Beauvy, Pamelyn Ferdin,
Directors : Dennis Donnelly,

A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, George Coe,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Robin Bailey, Dorothy Alison, Diane Grayson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Rossella Falk,
Directors : Paolo Cavara,

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black ...

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Luigi Pistilli, Anita Strindberg,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his wife.