Best Robbery movies of 1970s

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : William Holden, Karl Malden, Ryan O'Neal, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.

Actors : Gene Saks, Anne Bancroft, Jack Lemmon, Elizabeth Wilson,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

A suddenly unemployed ex-executive suffers a nervous breakdown.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy,

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Actors : Luke Askew, Robert Duvall, R.G. Armstrong, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN.

Actors : Elliott Gould, Céline Lomez, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson, Cosette Lee, Robert Warner,

Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps (among others) as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

Actors : Dick Gautier, Ed McMahon, George Segal, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Charles Bronson, John Houseman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Stan Haze, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley,
Directors : Frank D. Gilroy,

After spending 3 unforgettable hours with an outlaw, a beautiful young widow turns her story into a worldwide famous book.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Joe Don Baker, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Charles Gérard, Lino Ventura, André Falcon, Françoise Fabian,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes ...

Actors : Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Two hopelessly-out-of-their-class conmen attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the 19th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection ...

Actors : Jack Elam, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.

Actors : Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood,
Directors : Barney Platts-Mills,

Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Robert F. Lyons, Patricia Quinn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year old girl.

Actors : Mariette Hartley, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : George McCowan,

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the ...