Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Cyrinda Foxe, Carroll Baker, Matthew Anton, Cathy Roskam,
Directors : Jed Johnson,

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of ...

Actors : Yves Afonso, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Denis, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

After the Olsen Gang's money is stolen in Spain, Egon is arrested once more. Back in Denmark, they want to steal a railroad car full of gold bars to get their money back.

Actors : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In a vein similar to James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

Actors : Romy Schneider, Alain Belard, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Durou,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of...

Actors : James Mason, Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Terence Young,

A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.

Actors : François Maistre, Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves...

Actors : Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yôko Ichiji,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.

Actors : Ion Fintesteanu, Puiu Calinescu, Dem Radulescu, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Robert Blake, Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just ...

Actors : Mireille Darc, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Lino Ventura, Paolo Bonacelli, Tino Carraro,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, George C. Scott, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

Actors : Roberto Sosa, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against ...