Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Kôichi Iwaki, Masami Kuwajima, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.

Actors : Lin Tung, Wu Chi Liu, Karen Yeh, Kuan Tai Chen,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A man agrees to trade his wife to settle his massive gambling debt but is overcome with remorse and guilt. He attempts suicide but is saved by a beautiful ghost.

Actors : Shivaji Bhosle, Sanjivani Bidkar, Anant Audkar, Mohan Agashe,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

Wealthy and influential Hindurao Dhonde Patil finds a homeless drunk, brings him home, looks after him, feeds him, finds a room for him, gets him employed, calls him Master, and even finds ...

Actors : Noriko Igarashi, Shôji Ôki, Michi Aoyama, Masumi Jun,
Directors : Keiichi Ozawa,

A softcore pink sex film with sukeban and yakuza story elements.

Actors : Kostas Karagiorgis, Seretta Wilson, Giannis Kandilas, Minas Christidis,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

When a couple of retired mercenaries meet again, they decide to take advantage of their past skills and plan to rob a casino.

Actors : Tony Page, Lauren Simon, James Reyes, Vera Visconti,
Directors : Clark Worswick,

A Russian homosexual dancer's cousin was raped and killed in a Bronx back alley by angry gangsters. Now he is seeking vengeance.

Actors : Jess Hahn, Jean-Marie Pallardy, Gordon Mitchell, Ilker Inanoglu,

In Turkey, the son of a rich manager is kidnapped. This boy finds a friend in one of the kidnapper when the adventures evolve.

Actors : Gilbert Chénier, André Guy, Dorothée Berryman, Marc Legault,
Directors : Jacques Godbout,

Decided to 'make the States' a hit-man from Montreal accept a contract in New York to kill a mafioso boss, Frank Anastasia. Naturally the Americans don't accept what that 'stranger', that ...

Actors : Janne Carlsson, Mona Seilitz, Eddie Axberg, Hans Klinga,
Directors : Christer Abrahamsen,

The true story behind the movie takes it start in 1874 with two misfits - Gustaf Adolf Eriksson (Hjert) and Conrad Pettersson Lundqvist (Tector) - that meet in the big prison of Långholmen ...

Actors : Harvey Lembeck, Cesare Danova, Sinéad Cusack, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : William Kronick,

American detective goes to Ireland, for a visit to his late wife's relatives and helps the local police in a case of murder and money forgery.

Actors : Chin Hu, Hsieh Wang, Shirley Yu, Ping Chen,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

The first story features an elderly jeweler's adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello. The second is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape.

Actors : Jennifer Wynne, Lakis Komninos, Erika Raffael, Dorothy Moore,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Joachim is an impotent man who who secretly films his friend Stathis having sex with girls from the Tango Club. When Stathis kills the lesbian that he catches with his girlfriend, the death is caught on film. Necrophilia soon follows.

Actors : Katia Dandoulaki, Giorgos Hristodoulou, Joanna Papa, Rena Kosmidou,
Directors : Erricos Andreou,

A young girl goes with her father and stepmother, with whom she has a lesbian affair, for vacation on a small island and a local fisherman gets between the two lovers.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A former police captain recruits a group of deadly murderers to remove the corrupt and mafia Yakuza . Their first task is to intercept a briefcase from a band that trafficked drugs.

Actors : Hua Yueh, Eva Lin, Wei Szu, Ping Chen,
Directors : Chung Sun,

A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Tom Skerritt, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.

Actors : Dimitris Bislanis, Giannis Voglis, Nelli Gini, Rita Adler,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Zamano, a safe-cracker is engaged by Muratti, a drug lord to open a safe containing 20 kilos of pure heroine that belong to a fancy Lebanese pusher. First, Muratti shall take the expert out...

Actors : Yvonne Sparrbåge, Henry Bon, Per-Axel Arosenius, Sverre Horge,
Directors : Arild Kristo,

The former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Together they run off to France. The father starts the hunt for them, thinking they're doing drugs.

Actors : Kosta Tsonev, Anton Gorchev, Elena Rainova, Tzvetana Maneva,
Directors : Metodi Andonov,

The Bulgarian intelligence officer Emil Boev is given another mission. He leaves for a symposium in a large western European city. An American spy Seymour makes him out. He offers his ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Dev Anand, Parveen Babi, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Plain-clothes Inspector Dharam Dev is hot on the tracks of notorious underworld don, Durgaprasad, alias "D.P." But Durgraprased is not only elusive, but shrewd and cunning as well, and ...