Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Laurence Olivier, John Matthews, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

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 : Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Actors : Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.

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 : Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Isabelle Adjani, Roman Polanski,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Actors : Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, John Steadman, Janus Blythe,
Directors : Wes Craven,

On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

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 : George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Katharine Ross, Michael Caine,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.

Actors : Gabriele Lavia, Daria Nicolodi, David Hemmings, Macha Méril,
Directors : Dario Argento,

After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

Actors : John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea,
Directors : Bob Clark,

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Alan Gifford, Lynne Frederick, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Saul Bass,

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. ...

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Karen Black, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.

Actors : Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, 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.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex employee is killed after he tips-off 2 other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.

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.