Best Crime movies of 1970s

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 : Beba Bidart, Fernanda Mistral, Luisina Brando, Julio De Grazia,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.

Actors : Wakako Sakai, Kan'emon Nakamura, Komaki Kurihara, Tatsuya Nakadai,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers ...

Actors : Hollis McLaren, Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Au Canada, un jeune homme, passeur d'émigrés clandestins vers les Etats-Unis, tue l'un de ses clients pour lui dérober une valise pleine de dollars. Il s'enfuit à bord d'un véhicule conduit...

Actors : René Caron, Suzanne Valéry, Sophie Carrière, Marcel Sabourin,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Lee Van Cleef, Jean Rochefort, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout.

Actors : Jaime Garza, José Luis Manzano, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Jon Bluming, Frits Lambrechts, Anny de Lange, Rijk de Gooyer,
Directors : Frans Weisz,

Burgler and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny ...

Actors : Franciszek Trzeciak, Lucyna Winnicka, Anna Nieborowska, Irena Ladosiówna,
Directors : Grzegorz Królikiewicz,

Based on a pre-war murder case of the Malisz couple. They end up committing a petty robbery and a sordid murder. He is an illustrator who is not used by a climbing architect. His folks ...

Actors : Art Maier, Lou Bedford, Fred Williamson, Bernard Kirby,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He ...

Actors : Juan Valentín, Juan Gallardo, Princesa Lea, Ana Luisa Peluffo,
Directors : Francisco Guerrero,

Actors : Frank Wolff, Raf Vallone, Gillian Bray, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

Actors : Bruce Lee, Van Williams, Lloyd Gough, Wende Wagner,

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Massimo Mollica, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it.

Actors : Jo Anne Meredith, Frank Cuva, Elizabeth Plumb, Lawrence Montaigne,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.

Actors : Sherry E. DeBoer, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Barry Shear,

Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmid ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Francis Huster,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Actors : Flora Robson, Gayle Hunnicutt, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : Diana Dors, Harry H. Corbett, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Stanley A. Long,

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.

Actors : Franco Ressel, Joan Collins, Maurizio Merli, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

An Italian private investigator tries to get to the bottom of a suspicious kidnapping case with the help of an exotic dancer