Best Thriller movies of 1970

Actors : Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Bourvil, Alain Delon,
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 : Jean Seberg, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Actors : Tony Musante, Enrico Maria Salerno, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A witness of an attack, a writer becomes stalked by a serial killer.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Pascal Ferone, Antonio Passalia, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Actors : Susan Clark, Eric Braeden, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : John Nettleton, Pamela Franklin, Sandor Elès, Michele Dotrice,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?

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 : 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 : Maribel Martín, Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Howard Ross, Ira von Fürstenberg, William Berger,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A small group of people come to an island to relax but soon find themselves trapped on the island with a murderer in their midst.

Actors : Gustav Opocenský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt, John Hamill,
Directors : James Kelley,

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.

Actors : Roger Moore, Alastair Mackenzie, Hildegard Neil, Hugh Mackenzie,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment, his life is upset.

Actors : Annie Cordy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's ...

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 : Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Dagmar Lassander, Osvaldo Genazzani,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

A triangle of friendship, love, sex, and, perhaps, murder. Minou is newly married to Peter, a businessman in debt as he works to bring a new product to market. They met through Dominique, ...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Robert Shaw, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Two escapees are on the run in the wilderness of an unspecified country. Wherever they go, they are followed by a menacing black helicopter.