Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Jennifer Warren, Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, Edward Binns,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter and he stumbles upon a case of murder and artifact smuggling.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A man, his wife, and their friend, stage a bloody bank robbery, unaware they are stealing money from the Mob.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Ed Begley Jr., Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their...

Actors : Carl Bradshaw, Jimmy Cliff, Ras Daniel Hartman, Janet Bartley,
Directors : Perry Henzell,

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Actors : Robert DoQui, Booker Bradshaw, William Elliott, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Barry Primus, David Carradine, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Pam Grier, Terry Carter,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : Nora Miao, Bruce Lee, Ping Ou Wei, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Bruce Lee,

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.

Actors : Richard Libertini, Alan Arkin, Nancy Dussault, Peter Falk,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Mark Rydell,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The epic tale of a class struggle in 20th Century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista, Maria Yi,

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Actors : Wendy Morgan, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

Miss Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.