Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Howard Vernon, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Tania Busselier,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-François Adam, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence ...

Actors : Herbert Lom, Joan Collins, Christopher Lee, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Don Sharp,

A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Paul Burke, Nehemiah Persoff, Julie Adams,
Directors : Ray Danton,

A former mental patient uses astral projection to destroy the people he believes have wronged him.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

Actors : Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, E.G. Marshall, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will ...

Actors : John Hurt, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Stuart Cooper,

Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Actors : Anuska Borova, George Martin, Nieves Navarro, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Maurizio Pradeaux,

A photographer named Kitty (Susan Scott) watched through a tourist telescope the killing of a woman through the window of a nearby house. She is unable to get a clear view of the killer's ...

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A nihilistic ronin joins the immoral Bohachi clan, which intends to take control over the local prostitution industry.

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 ...

Actors : Erna Schurer, John Steiner, Lina Polito, Sara Sperati,
Directors : Rino Di Silvestro,

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.

Actors : Lynn Farleigh, Russell Lewis, Gayle Hunnicutt, David Hemmings,
Directors : Kevin Billington,

After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental hospital. After her release, her husband takes her for a weekend at a secluded country ...

Actors : Luan Peters, Derek Aylward, Maurice Kaufmann, Michael Latimer,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country.

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Ralph Waite, Kathleen Cody, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Thomas J. Schmidt,

Two girls on their way to a hippie encounter session pick up a crazed Vietnam veteran, who might just be the serial killer who is murdering hippies in the area.

Actors : Bernard McKenna, Susan Chapek, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Hiromi Sairaiji, Misuzu Ôta, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

A group of girls find themselves immersed in an Osaka gangland war when they escape from a detention transport. They form their own gang called The Gypsies.

Actors : Luke Askew, Tyne Daly, Larry Bishop, Don Stroud,
Directors : Lee Madden,

Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.