Best Assassin movies of 1970s

Actors : Michi Azuma, Akihiro Tomikawa, Yoichi Hayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Darras, Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Actors : Woody Strode, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but ...

Actors : Elga Sorbas, Karl Scheydt, Jan George, Hark Bohm,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Valentina Cortese, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger, Henry Silva,

Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Yaphet Kotto, Pam Grier, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to ...

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Fabio Testi, Sam Peckinpah, Warren Oates,

The railroad hires a condemned killer to murder an uncooperative rancher but the assassin fails to deliver, prompting the railroad men to go after him instead.

Actors : Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Michael Hordern, Patrick Cargill,
Directors : Bob Kellett,

Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems ...

Actors : Marc Porel, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.

Actors : George Kennedy, Max von Sydow, John Cassavetes, Sophia Loren,
Directors : John Hough,

In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt but the army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hit-man to kill the general.

Actors : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Actors : Michael Ansara, John Carter, Francine York, Anthony Eisley,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

Squad of beautiful government agents tries to catch saboteurs.

Actors : Richard Harris, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

Actors : Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

Chen Kuan-tai battles assassins that use a deadly, beheading weapon to kill dissidents. Based on true events, the film's weapon was completely fabricated because in real life, no one ever ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Emi Shindô, Lun Chia, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

Blood for Money! Sonny Chiba is "Golgo 13", a cold, calculating, ruthless assassin, working for the U.S. drug syndicate. His assignment: "take-out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His only ...