Best Thriller movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Adolfo Lastretti, Suzy Kendall, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Christian (Robert Hoffman) and his girlfriend are taking a walk on a deserted beach when they discover a woman's body lying. A closer look proves that she's alive. The next day Christian ...

Actors : Carlo Gentili, Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

A famed jewel thief named Rochard is slashed to death on a train. His daughter Nicole, a famous nightclub performer in Paris, is questioned by the police about some missing diamonds but she...

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 : 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 : Ray Lovelock, Mimsy Farmer, 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 : 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 : Maribel Martín, Renaud Verley, Alfredo Mayo, Viveca Lindfors,

A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.

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 : Marc Porel, Ray Lovelock, Franco Citti, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy whom are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops whom thrive on living dangerously.

Actors : Alan Badel, Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of ...

Actors : Dina Ousley, Brenda Fogarty, Cathy Worthington, Zalman King,
Directors : Earl Barton,

A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Barry Morse, Kay Hawtrey, Dean Garbett, Lesleh Donaldson,
Directors : William Fruet,

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.