Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell,
Directors : Ross Hagen,

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Paul Stevens,
Directors : Hugh A. Robertson,

A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It ...

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Max Gail, Michael Paul Chan,
Directors : Murray Mintz,

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a ...

Actors : Pat Hingle, Rebecca Dianna Smith, John Beck, Dack Rambo,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists. One of the psychos is John Beck from the '...

Actors : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Bunjaku Han, Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.

Actors : Donna Mills, Robyn Millan, Robert Conrad, Don Stroud,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th ...

Actors : Heinz Erhardt, Martin Held, Walter Giller, Agnes Windeck,
Directors : Wolfgang Staudte,

Die Nachricht von der Rückkehr 'Dandys' aus den Vereinigten Staaten löst allerorten hektische Betriebsamkeit aus: Während Kriminalinspektor Knauer sich die Akten des alten 'Kunden' kommen ...

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Michele Gammino,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Starting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past ...

Actors : John Ireland, John Saxon, David Janssen, Senta Berger,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

A former U.S.Justice Department official is hired as a security consultant for a Zurich based Swiss bank when five of its clients are blackmailed.

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Tamaki Katsura, Yûdai Ishiyama, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.

Actors : Antonio Cantafora, Klaus Kinski, Marina Malfatti, Fred Robsahm,
Directors : Carlo Croccolo,

In Tombstone, a new sheriff vows to clean up the town of outlaws like the O'Hara brothers and is assisted by a strange lawyer who always carries two large law books with him.

Actors : Gila von Weitershausen, Fernando Sancho, Hans Hass Jr., Thomas Hunter,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling ...

Actors : Mohsen Sohrabi, Jaleh Sam, Ken Takakura, Yadolla Shirandami,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Golgo 13 is assigned to murder a man named Boss Goa.

Actors : Patrice Townsend, Irene Cagen, Zack Norman, Michael Emil,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for ...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Puiu Calinescu, Jean Constantin, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Actors : Angelo Infanti, Giancarlo Sbragia, Maurizio Merli, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

Actors : Jirí Hrzán, Iva Janzurová, Eva Svobodová, Natasa Gollová,
Directors : Zdenek Podskalský,

Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Natasa Gollová) has never married and Andelka (Eva Svobodová) is a widow. In the morning, ...