Best Crime movies of 1970s

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 : Stacy Keach, Edward Fox, Stephen Boyd, David Hemmings,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A dangerous, violent gang kidnaps a woman and her daughter to extort some money from her rich husband. He and her down-on-his-luck ex-cop ex-husband decide to deal with the kidnappers themselves.

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 : 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.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Ray Lovelock, Richard Conte, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Tamaki Katsura, Yôko Azusa, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

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 : Diana Dors, Adrienne Posta, Judy Geeson, Barry Evans,
Directors : Stanley A. Long,

Joe North is a cab driver in London, something that gives him many opportunities to have sex.

Actors : Don Chastain, Damu King, Diane Sommerfield, Rod Perry,
Directors : John Evans,

J.J., a rising star in the black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood. One of the only remaining obstacles is the white heroin cartel that is ...

Actors : Rumi Aiki, Mitsuko Aoi, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, a gangster gets released early - only to find that his ex-gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, bloodshed is bound to begin anew.

Actors : Richard Harris, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon, Ann Turkel,

Aboard the cargo vessel converted into a luxury cruise ship, S.S. Campari, somewhere in the Caribbean is lying in port, due to a succession of delays. Chief Officer Johnny Carter, who has ...

Actors : Tara Strohmeier, Miles Watkins, Jocelyn Jones, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Steno,

This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (intense performance: Enrico ...

Actors : O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A merc is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Actors : Luigi Casellato, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Maurizio Lucidi,

A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant ...

Actors : Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Anthony Forrest, Alison Elliott,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Tomas Milian, Maria Fiore, Mario Piave,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.

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 : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...