Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Marlon Brando, James Caan,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Actors : Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Actors : Albert Brooks, Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri, Martin Sheen, Warren Oates,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Actors : Cab Calloway, John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : John Landis,

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

Actors : Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Alain Delon, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Terence Alexander, Edward Fox,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Actors : Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, Goldie Hawn, William Atherton,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Darwin Joston, Martin West, Laurie Zimmer, Austin Stoker,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A police sergeant and an unlikely band of criminals defend a closing LA precinct office on New Years Eve against an army of gang members.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Lauren Hutton, Richard Gere, Nina van Pallandt,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Clint Eastwood, Jack Cassidy, George Kennedy,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.

Actors : Amy Robinson, David Proval, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A small-time hood aspires to work his way up the ranks of a local mob.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Actors : Al Pacino, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, John Cazale,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.