Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : Aachi Manorama, R.S. Manohar, K. Balaji, Ashokan,
Directors : R. Krishnamurthy,

A village bumpkin poses as a Mafia don to uncover the gang.

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Valborg har fått et nytt problem å stri med. Basse, hennes sønn, har ledet en ung kvinne ut i fristelsen, og nå gjelder det å redde ansikt. D.v.s. å få dem gift. Utsiktene er lyse, for Egon...

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Denholm Elliott, Ken Hutchison,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

Second cinematic spin-off from the popular 70's police series. Regan & Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

Actors : Bobby Alto, Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci,
Directors : Ralph De Vito,

Neighborhood kid goes to work for the Mafia as a debt collector.

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 : Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.

Actors : David Chiang, Mario Milano, Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching,

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Actors : Sue Ane Langdon, Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A young couple, just married, rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because the inhabitants of the village look upon them with distrust. Meanwhile, in the house ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : Sverre Holm, Arve Opsahl, Carsten Byhring, Harald Heide-Steen Jr.,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Olsenbanden har slått seg ned som multimillionærer i Spania. Den avslappede tilværelsen får imidlertid en brå slutt da superskurken Biffen får fatt i kofferten med millionene. Etter en tid ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

Actors : Gisela Hahn, Al Cliver, Harry Baer, Jack Palance,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in ...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Egon vender denne gangen tilbake fra fengslet med nøkkelen til den store fangsten. En skatt fra tyskertiden som en tysk general har stukket unna på Sørlandet i håp om å nyte sitt liv basert...

Actors : Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

Actors : Lars-Levi Læstadius, Willie Andréason, Thommy Berggren, Mona Seilitz,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called...

Actors : Louis Jourdan, Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Paul Meurisse, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious ...

Actors : Feroz Khan, Amjad Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Al Lettieri, Robert Forster, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.