Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Milo O'Shea, Hywel Bennett, Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ...

Actors : Paulo César Peréio, Milton Gonçalves, Ana Maria Magalhães, Reginaldo Faria,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies.

Actors : Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard,
Directors : Larry Yust,

Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

Actors : Jirina Bohdalová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ...

Actors : Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Gianni Dei, Michele Renzullo,
Directors : Mario Landi,

In Venice a detective is on the trail of a killer who commits a double murder (a married couple) then more grisly killings occur. Sex, drugs, gore and perversions are ingredients of this sadistic and sleazy giallo.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bouchet,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A retired hit-man decides to take one last job to avenge the murder of his brother by a mafia gang. An eager would-be mobster helps him.

Actors : Xavier Depraz, Roland Bertin, Laura Betti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michèle Morgan, Philippe Léotard, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.

Actors : Jorunn Kjellsby, Torgeir Schjerven, Lasse Tømte, Kjersti Døvigen,
Directors : Svend Wam,

The teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home. To Geir's alcoholic mother and to Lasse's father, who is terrorizing the entire family.

Actors : Kirsten Walther, Axel Strøbye, Karen Lykkehus, Bertel Lauring,
Directors : Gabriel Axel,

The Iversen family is on the verge of bankruptcy. When all the family members are fired from their jobs, one after another, when most of the furniture is confiscated , the telephone blocked...

Actors : Danièle Ajoret, Christian Barbier, Jean Gabin, Michel Barbey,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ...

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Sal Borgese, Tomas Milian, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before ...

Actors : Claudio Undari, Tomas Milian, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Actors : Robert Ryan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray,
Directors : René Clément,

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Actors : Linda Miller, James Brolin, Richard S. Castellano, Cliff Gorman,

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

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 : Lee Majors, Jennifer O'Neill, Harris Yulin, Art Carney,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers...

Actors : Skip E. Lowe, John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

A black hairstylist has sex with his female customers, and tries to keep the Mafia from taking over his business.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Wolfgang Preiss, Florinda Bolkan, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A just released from prison professional thief decides to do one last high-risk heist, which could settle him for life or land him behind bars again.

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi, Claudia Demarmels, Carlheinz Heitmann,
Directors : Peter F. Bringmann,

Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe.