Best Thriller movies of 1970s

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

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

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 : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marino Masé, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

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 : 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 : Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Jane Garret, Rosalba Neri,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yayoi Watanabe, Reisen Ri, Mikio Narita,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Barbara Bach, 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 : 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 : Mimsy Farmer, Ray Lovelock, Barry Primus, Carlo Cattaneo,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Actors : Chloe Franks, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.