Best Cop movies of 1970

Actors : Orazio Orlando, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Actors : Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Robert Altman,

An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London; the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Barbara McNair, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas...

Actors : Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Jeevan, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the ...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...

Actors : Julien Guiomar, Jacques Perrin, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge,
Directors : Paul Vecchiali,

Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to ...

Actors : Milena Vukotic, Ugo Tognazzi, Angela Goodwin, Francesca Romana Coluzzi,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

Emerenziano (Ugo Tognazzi) is the middle-aged tax inspector who is in search of a wealthy wife. He travels to northern Italy where he meets three sisters, who, though wealthy, are not by ...

Actors : Frank Wolff, Raf Vallone, Gillian Bray, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

Actors : Julián Mateos, Pernell Roberts, Leslie Nielsen, Sue Lyon,
Directors : John Peyser,

A U.S. marshal sets out to bring in a Mexican bandit accused of killing his girlfriend's father, but it turns out that there's more to the story than there first appears to be.

Actors : Olive Denneccio, João Fernandes, Linda Southern, Larry Hunter,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

A seemingly pleasant fellow, Arthur goes berserk and rapes any woman in front of him wearing gold earrings. One woman tells the investigating detective (who is Arthur's uncle) she was raped...

Actors : Luanne Roberts, Buddy Pantsari, Julie Conners, John Alderman,
Directors : Jonathan Lucas,

A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.

Actors : Ryôji Hayama, Ryôhei Uchida, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Shin'ichi Chiba,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

Actors : Dick Carballo, Jane McLeod, Devin Goldenberg, Zachary Haines,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label education in that regard as a communist ...

Actors : Robert Hossein, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour, Albert Minski,
Directors : Sergio Gobbi,

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, a criminal is tracked by a inspector, a former childhood friend.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Toshiaki Minami,
Directors : Ryuichi Takamori,

Hayata is an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate not one, but two rival Yakuza gangs. Things get complicated when Hayata gets into a relationship with a young schoolteacher, the daughter ...

Actors : Noel Davis, Gilbert Wynne, Norman Claridge, Gilly Grant,
Directors : Lindsay Shonteff,

Gilbert Wynne stars in this British programmer as Harry Clegg, detective. His mission: To track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.

Actors : Monica Gayle, Nona Carver, L.G. Allard, Linda Colpin,
Directors : Edward D. Wood Jr.,

A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute."