Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Céline Lomez, Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bagot, Roland Amstutz, Michel Albertini, Yves Montand,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Actors : Carol Speed, Richard Pryor, Max Julien, Don Gordon,
Directors : Michael Campus,

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Charles Bronson, John Houseman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Shingo Yamashiro, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.

Actors : Perry King, Louis Gossett Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Charles Durning,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Actors : Victor Lanoux, Mimsy Farmer, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Actors : Robert Lansing, Tony Musante, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Monica Gayle, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Jack Hill,

The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighbourhood.

Actors : Sven Wollter, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Håkan Serner, Thomas Hellberg,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very tough policeman who received ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A tough and honest police officer clashes with a crime boss who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be his parents' murderer.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale, Joe Stewardson, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Steno,

Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediatlz before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows ...

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 : Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Jack Weston, Jerry Reed, Lauren Hutton, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Sidney Poitier, Gerald S. O'Loughlin,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

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 : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.