Best Crime movies of 1974

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Actors : Harry Reems, Chesty Morgan, Richard Towers, Saul Meth,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers...

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Diana Sands, Roscoe Orman, Joyce Walker,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

Actors : James Mason, Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Aram Avakian,

Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Eiji Gô, Hideo Murota, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

After a politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang, a brutal policewoman is released from jail and sent after them.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sheila Frazier, David Selby,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Kensaku Morita, Gô Katô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshio Kurosawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Det er store penger det dreier seg om denne gang, nemlig 4 millioner lett omsettelig mynt, nemlig moms-penger. De impliserte blir i tur og orden millionærer og raka fant en rekke ganger. ...

Actors : Lisa Moore, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the ...

Actors : Clifton James, Pamela Sue Martin, Joan Goodfellow, Jan-Michael Vincent,

In a rural 1940s southern town, a socially awkward high school girl is taken advantage of by the boys because it's the only way she knows to relate to boys. But one, Buster, falls in love ...

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Peter Boyle, Rip Torn, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Actors : Catherine Schell, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Edward Woodward,
Directors : Don Sharp,

David Callan, top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a ...

Actors : Linda Haynes, Victor French, 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 : 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 : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Richard Conte, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.

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 ...