Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Michael Stearns, Robert Lott, Linda York, Barbara Mills,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A murderer escapes from a chain gang, forcing his co-inmate to go along. The latter's girlfriend helps, but gets raped by the aggressive prisoner. The desperate duo next invades the home of an older farmer and his teen-aged wife.

Actors : Dave Galluzzo, Chip Greenman, Rich Pemberton, Rick Styles,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A rock band called "The Clowns" comes under suspicion of murder when several prostitutes are killed by individuals made up like members of the band.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Tom Gries,

An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Fatma Belgen, Sükriye Atav, Mümtaz Ener,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Carmen Argenziano, James Iglehart, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Riccardo Cucciolla, Franco Nero, John Steiner,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.

Actors : Mário Viegas, Luís Lello, Lima Duarte, Lia Gama,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Jorge Rivero, Pilar Velázquez, Richard Conte,
Directors : Mario Siciliano,

The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders...

Actors : Cesare Danova, Norman Burton, William Smith, Connie Stevens,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker (Stevens) is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bianco (Danova).

Actors : Pat Woodell, Laurie Rose, Roberta Collins, Marki Bey,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Heather, Beth, Carla, Brea, and Heather's cousin Paula are five lovely young ladies who decide to spend their summer vacation at Lake Arrowhead. While at Lake Arrowhead the women hit the ...

Actors : Marlène Jobert, Jacques Debary, Dominique Labourier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.

Actors : William Smith, Jennifer Billingsley, Ray Girardin, Jude Farese,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hollywood action film star Rafe Stoker has sunk $130,000 of his own money into his own production, but can't find legitimate financing to complete the film. His mob-connected investor ...

Actors : Seema, Mustafa Qureshi, Aasia, Sultan Rahi,
Directors : Yunus Malik,

Maula Jat tells the true story of it's eponymous hero's blood feud with the local "gunda" Nuri Nath.

Actors : Keith Andes, Broderick Crawford, Kent Taylor, Scott Brady,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A government agent tries to break a Neo-Fascist group in California

Actors : Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman, Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Charles S. Dubin,

A young drifter (Stephen McHattie) and his newly acquired girlfriend (Kay Lenz) witness a corrupt local Sheriff kill his deputy, soon becoming the prime suspects they set off across country to evade capture.

Actors : Jean-Claude Bouillon, Paola Pitagora, Maurice Garrel, Nicoletta,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Memduh Ün, Suna Yildizoglu, Esref Kolçak,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Domenico Santoro, Françoise Fabian, Andrea Balestri,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.

Actors : James Mason, Telly Savalas, Aldo Ray, Robert Culp,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

Thirty years after WW2, a team of former GIs and German soldiers plans to retrieve Nazi loot hidden in the Soviet occupied East Germany, its exact location only known to an imprisoned Nazi war criminal.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Yves Boisset,