Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Michel Constantin, Claudia Cardinale, Enrique Lucero, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Episodic portrait of a criminal, from 1934 until after the war. Roberto Borgo is tough, cool, sardonic, loyal, and deadly. He comes to Marseilles to help his friend Xavier Saratov get out ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Marie Dubois, Carole Laure, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. ...

Actors : Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.

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

Ved hjelp av en korrupt diplomat planlegger Olsenbanden å rane Verdensbanken. Denne gangen får de også hjelp av Dynamitt-Harry. Men denne gangen som Data-Harry. Harry sovnet en dag i en ...

Actors : Sebastian Papaiani, Amza Pellea, Ilarion Ciobanu, George Constantin,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Actors : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Jirô Okazaki, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.

Actors : Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and...

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

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

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

Historien begynner på Kanariøyene, banden har endelig greid å komme seg til syden. Men selv der skal oppholdet betales, og når Egon gjør et lite brekk for å fikse det, blir han tatt. Ute av...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Lurene Tuttle, Forrest Tucker, Leif Garrett,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Buford Pusser's last days as Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee in 1970 and his subsequent death in 1974.

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 : Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata, Masakazu Tamura, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sheila Frazier, David Selby,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : André Téchiné,

The story of a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the ...

Actors : Brock Peters, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.

Actors : Luce Guilbeault, Therese Cadorette, Jean Lajeunesse, J. Léo Gagnon,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.

Actors : Mascha Gonska, Romy Schneider, Philippe Brizard, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Francis Girod,

A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Mitchell Ryan, Alex Dreier, Warren Oates,
Directors : Paul Magwood,

A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Sylva Koscina, Annabella Incontrera, Farley Granger,
Directors : Roberto Bianchi Montero,

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.