Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Paola Morra, Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giulio Berruti,

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital,...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, John Beck, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Actors : Alexandra Bastedo, John Hurt, Peter Cushing, Gwen Watford,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his...

Actors : Paola Pitagora, Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

An Italian official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released--but then ...

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Stephen Furst,
Directors : Danny Steinmann,

A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement.

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Klaus Kinski, Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery,

A woman is tormented by strange dreams of astronauts on the moon. She visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her even though she does not know them.

Actors : Robin Gammell, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Ken James,
Directors : Peter Carter,

Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.

Actors : Sonja Jeannine, John Steiner, Donald O'Brien, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A bounty hunter arrives in a mining town and is hired to track down the missing daughter of the town's crippled mayor and learns she has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and a band of outlaws he is secretly working for.

Actors : Ryouko Ima, Yayoi Watanabe, Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.

Actors : Annie Cordy, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Pierre Cassel, 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 : Richard Crenna, Cassie Yates, Andrew Prine, Joanna Pettet,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion and hires a few friends to fix it up but the mansion is haunted.

Actors : Andreas Mannkopff, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Hiram Keller, Venantino Venantini, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

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 : Stefania Casini, Craig Hill, Massimo Serato, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Antonio Bido,

The body of a schoolgirl is found in a meadow. The murderer is never caught, and years later; a young man named Stefano returns to the island and is reunited with his brother, the local priest.

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.

Actors : Barbara Bach, Renzo Palmer, Franco Nero, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.

Actors : Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross, Rod Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Linda Evans, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin,

Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.

Actors : Carmen Young, Rita Calderoni, Mickey Hargitay, Raul Lovecchio,
Directors : Renato Polselli,

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.