Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Ursula Andress, David Warner, Stanley Baker, Patience Collier,
Directors : Peter Hall,

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He ...

Actors : Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Guido Mannari,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.

Actors : John Savage, Ann Sothern, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

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.

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.

Actors : Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Howard W. Koch,

After his suspension for the shooting death of drug runner, a New York City cop vows to keep the streets clean, any way he can.

Actors : Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Fausto Tozzi, Ivo Garrani,

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The ...

Actors : Dagmar Bürger, Martine Fléty, Pamela Stanford, Sarah Strasberg,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Motivated by her vehement hatred of men that stems from having been sexually abused as...

Actors : Victor French, Linda Haynes, Jason Miller, John Hillerman,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Small-time criminal Cooper manages several warehouses in Los Angeles that the mob use to stash their stolen goods. Known as "the key man" for the key chain he always keeps on his person ...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...

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 : Peter Fonda, Telly Savalas, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Val Guest,

A five-man team of professionals undertake a daring robbery at a diamond mine.

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 : 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 : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

After Iron Guard member Paraipan discovers that commissioner Moldovan had staged his own death, he kidnaps Moldovan's son in order to draw him out. Tensions build up resulting in a final epic confrontation.

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 : Irina Maleeva, James Mason, Luc Merenda, Marino Masé,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Based on an actual event "The Kidnap Syndicate" is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Jackson Beck, Pamela Gruen, Devin Goldenberg, Allen Garfield,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi, Ornella Muti, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually ...