Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Marie Déa, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an ...

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 : Jacqueline Millière, Joseph Leportier, Claude Hébert, Annick Géhan,
Directors : René Allio,

Actors : Burkhard Driest, Fritz Hollenbeck, Marianne Kehlau, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the ...

Actors : Deep Roy, Maribel Martín, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

Actors : Vítor Mendes, Esther Moser, Martine Stedil, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

When a woman has been found by the police she tells of being kidnapped, drugged and tortured by 'Arminda' (Lina Romay). For many years they have been trying to shut down Arminda's sex ...

Actors : Yildirim Gencer, Eva Bender, Meral Zeren, Kadir Inanir,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

An introvert party goer in '60s makes it a habit of kidnapping meretricious female models to hidden spots out to wild nature to rape them, and of returning them to their homes nevermore.

Actors : Lorraine De Selle, Patrizia Behn, Joe Dallesandro, Gianni Macchia,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.

Actors : James Booth, Richard Briers, Ronald Fraser, Julie Ege,
Directors : Jim Clark,

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both ...

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

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 ...

Actors : Paul Nicholas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Pierre Koralnik,

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know ...

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Robert Blake, Ernest Borgnine, Catherine Spaak,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Boxer Teddy Wilcox (Robert Blake) leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. ...

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Mikio Narita, Kei Satô, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the ...

Actors : Gianfranco De Grassi, Carmen Scarpitta, Guido De Carli, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Vittorio Salerno,

The Savage Three are three young men, fresh into the world, who work together at a computer analysis company. All three appear to be calm, level-headed, well-educated young men with the ...

Actors : Sevda Aktolga, Korkut Altin, Müjde Ar, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Serif Gören,

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 : Kwok-Wah Au, Siu-Lung Leung, Yee-Hing Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Fung Wong,

Actors : Claude Boisson, Olivier Mathot, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,

A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Noriko Kurosawa, Eiji Gô, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.