Best Investigation movies of 1970s

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Kensaku Morita, Gô Katô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patricia Neal, Nicholas Clay, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with ...

Actors : Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.

Actors : Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis, Alan Brock, Michael Harris,
Directors : Michael Findlay,

A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.

Actors : Michelle Yim, Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Jon Voight,
Directors : Maximilian Schell,

While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Morgan Woodward, Cameron Mitchell, Susan Clark,

An ex-con, once a cop, now working as security in a college, decides to investigate the murder of one of the students, a daughter of a senator.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sacha Distel, Dominique Sanda, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

A strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these ...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Fabio Testi, Ivan Desny, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Alberto Negrin,

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."

Actors : Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Giuseppe Patroni Griffi,

Mentally disturbed spinster Lise experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone to murder her.

Actors : Françoise Fabian, Giancarlo Badessi, Franco Nero, Pierluigi Aprà,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

The latest success by film-maker Giacomo Solaris is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film ...

Actors : Reatha Grey, Stan Kamber, Marlo Monte, Tiffany Peters,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he goes about extracting vengeance on those who put him in prison. This includes both ...

Actors : Johnny Sekka, Peter Cushing, Alexander Davion, Patrick Macnee,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders ...

Actors : Tiiu Leek, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

An advance team from a dying, far-off civilization seeks a new world to conquer and inhabit -- Earth!

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Luc Merenda, Carlo Alighiero, Richard Conte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

When Milano police lieutenant Giorga's chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss's death. Going undercover to continue the chief's investigation, he plans to ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Berwick Kaler, Annabella Wood, Jane Hilary, John Miranda,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan whereby the barber murders people and the baker makes them into pies to be sold in his shop.