Best Crime movies of 1974

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Fabio Testi, Franco Nero, Lina Polito,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Isao Natsuyagi, Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Actors : Maribel Hidalgo, Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, William Berger,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Giancarlo Giannini, Giuliana Calandra, Giuseppe Maffioli,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Tina Aumont, Fernando Rey, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Daniel Gélin, Michel Galabru, Jean Carmet,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Mocky,

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer ?

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Laura Becherelli, Dominic Barto, Ricky Bruch,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

Sonny, a New York wise guy, dreams of becoming a feared gangster. He runs errands for the mob with some success, as a result the "Don" gives him, as a reward, the control of Mulberry Street, which also faces a boxing gym....

Actors : Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer, Frank DeKova, Paul Harris,
Directors : Bill Brame,

A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.

Actors : Walter Kohut, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Charly Wierczejewski,
Directors : Roland Klick,

Willi is a street kid trying to make a living with petty crimes. He befriends both a journalist who wants to help him make an honest living and an older petty criminal looking for a quick buck.

Actors : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Einari Koppel, Aleksey Batalov, Boris Ivanov, Faime Jurno,
Directors : Samson Samsonov,

Actors : Shirô Itô, Yûki Meguro, Eiko Ezaki, Maria Anzai,
Directors : Takashi Tsuboshima,

Though his father's partner Jigen wants him to take charge of the Lupin Empire and the obsessed detective Zenigata wants him behind bars, Lupin III is only concerned about being with the beautiful (and treacherous) lady thief Fujiko.

Actors : Dick Kaysø, Jytte Abildstrøm, Dirch Passer, Freddy Albeck,
Directors : Henning Ørnbak,

Con-man "Viffer" is now involved with the mafia, but when the mob boss Don Luigi wants him married to his appalling daughter, he runs off, with even the heist from a big con act.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Luigi Pistilli, Margaret Lee, Gianni Dei,
Directors : Vincenzo Rigo,

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 : Ulf Pilgaard, Jens Okking, Poul Reichhardt, Henning Jensen,
Directors : Esben Høilund Carlsen,

Actors : Candice Rialson, Sondra Currie, Paul Lambert, Gloria Grahame,
Directors : John Hayes,

Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenage daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they meet Harold and he's got other plans.

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 : Jan Mitchell, Philip Luther, Mikel Angel, Gary Kent,
Directors : Ronald Víctor García,

This thriller/drama follows a a suburban lawyer, down a ruinous, blood-covered road. The trouble begins when he tires of life in the slow lane and suggests that he and his wife should join ...

Actors : Slim Pickens, Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Jaclyn Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

Details the lives of two feuding families of bootleggers, the Pruitts and the Woodalls, in rural 1920s and 1930s Arkansas.