Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Eiji Gô, Yumi Takigawa, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Actors : Gianni Garko, Richard Conte, Henry Silva, Antonia Santilli,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don ...

Actors : James Mason, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Terence Young,

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Michael York,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior lieutenants of the crime.

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 : Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Satya Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a ...

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Kris Kristofferson, Victoria Principal, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : George Armitage,

After oil is found in a small town and local factory shut down, violent crime skyrockets. A young man has had enough and calls in his older brother, a cynical Vietnam vet, who cleans the streets but then tries to take over the town.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Lela Small, Yvonne Ross, Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers,
Directors : Robert A. Endelson,

A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There's a few nasty scene's where the ministers family are being ...

Actors : Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Lionel Stander, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.

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 ...

Actors : Clara Keller, Werner Hedman, Anne Sparrow, Tony Eades,
Directors : Eduardo Fuller,

Olaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep the addict girls happy so they do not try and escape. A young couple move into the house ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Heidelinde Weis, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...

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

Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hands on some important documents which could both make them rich and save ...

Actors : Barbara Babcock, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Foxworth,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.

Actors : Michel Bouquet, Marina Ninchi, Stéphane Audran, Celia,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games ...

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

The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. ...

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

After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's...

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

Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Sean Connery, Isabel Dean, Jeffry Wickham,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

A gang of hijackers led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane) seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik (Sean Connery) is assigned to ...