Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Billy Robinson, Verne Gagne, Edward Asner, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : James A. Westman,

Promoting the world of professional wrestling at the expense of the plot itself, Frank Bass (Ed Asner) takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers, mobsters, unscrupulous ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Per Theodor Haugen, Knut Husebø, Kari Rasmussen, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Erik Løchen,

A meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development, but which might be plain reality tomorrow.

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 : Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, 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 : 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

Actors : Lily Chakravarty, Vinod Khanna, Farida Jalal, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Gulzar,

A doctor must operate on a convicted murderer who is destined for the gallows. Running parallel to the medical drama are flashbacks to the events that led the highly-respected army officer to commit murder.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Jaime Garza, 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 : 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 : Frits Lambrechts, Jon Bluming, Rijk de Gooyer, Anny de Lange,
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 : Juan Valentín, Juan Gallardo, Princesa Lea, Ana Luisa Peluffo,
Directors : Francisco Guerrero,

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 : 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 : Kunie Tanaka, Mayumi Nagisa, Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent.

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

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Vittorio Sanipoli, Fausto Tozzi, Henry Silva,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

Thriller Starring Henry Silva and Barbara Bouchet. She Left Prostitution only to find Murder! Shes a former prostitute, now married to a gang boss dealing in black market currency and ...