Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Barry Sullivan, John Saxon, Elio Zamuto, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

An uncompromising cop gets transferred to Naples on account of this city's atrocious crime levels. His no-hold-barred police methods are considered to be the perfect anti-dote.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Beth Brickell, Seymour Cassel, Colleen Camp,
Directors : Peter S. Traynor,

Two young girls come to the home of a businessman whose family is away on his birthday. They seduce him and afterwards, however, they tie him up, torture him and trash his house.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

A soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.

Actors : Roberta Leighton, Cliff Emmich, Jason Evers, Wayne Crawford,

Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.

Actors : Marilù Tolo, Salvo Randone, George Hilton, William Berger,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

A mysterious decapitation leads Inspector Peretti into a case of blackmail, deceit and the unsolved kidnapping of a young girl.

Actors : Jay North, Angel Tompkins, Anthony James, Marlene Schmidt,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, whose husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also...

Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Bunta Sugawara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kazuhiko Hasegawa,

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Actors : Mascha Rabben, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Roland Klick,

In a deserted mining town at the end of nowhere three desperate men fight over a suitcase full of cash.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Mariangela Melato, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts the American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and brings him to a farm in ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Gérard, Christine Lelouch, Danièle Delorme,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, John Saxon, Tomas Milian, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Luigi Maietto (Chinaman) escapes from prison he then orders two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonal led to his being jailed. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but lives. The ...

Actors : Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : Debra Berger, Myriam Boyer, Mathieu Carrière, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Denis Héroux,

A Vietnam vet terrorizes a house full of nurses.

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Christopher Sandford, Barry Evans, Susan George,
Directors : Pete Walker,

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands...

Actors : Lucretia Love, Stephen Boyd, Carroll Baker, George Hilton,
Directors : Osvaldo Civirani,

The theft of jewels and mistaken identity complicate the life of Mary causing her to become the target of a vicious gang of criminals in this giallo crime thriller.

Actors : Anouska Hempel, Percy Herbert, Thomas Baptiste, David Warbeck,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Story of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.

Actors : Jaime Lyn Bauer, Dennis Olivieri, Aldo Ray, Andrew Prine,
Directors : John Peyser,

A depraved religious fanatic sets out to punish all the "immoral" women who have posed for the center-fold of a men's magazine.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Lee Remick,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hell's Angels vs. the Viet Cong!