Best Crime movies of 1970

Actors : Lucie Zulová, Jaroslava Adamová, Ruzena Lysenková, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Václav Lohniský,

Drugstore manager Souska (Vladimír Mensík) is a honorable citizen of the little town of Sedlolupy and is to be elected the chairman of the local National Committee. His niece Lidunka (Lucie...

Actors : Dae-yeob Lee, Kung-won Nam, Ko-seong Dok, Jeong-im Nam,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

Five people, unaware of the true identities of eac other, bind together to rob a villa on Mt Fuji of thousands of dollars worth of diamonds. However, they are betrayed by one of their members and learn that the target was never diamonds, but a North Korean microfilm

Actors : Katerina Machácková, Ladislav Pesek, Bohus Záhorský, Martin Stepánek,
Directors : Vladimír Cech,

In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to ...

Actors : Hiroko Ôgi, Tôru Abe, Tatsuya Fuji, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

One of popular singing star Hiroko Ôgi two sword-wielding yakuza series for Nikkatsu.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Keijiro Morokado, Kyôsuke Machida,
Directors : Shinji Murayama,

One of the more soulful and sentimental of the early 1970s modern day yakuza films from Toei.

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Vsevolod Sanaev, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Oleg Basilashvili,
Directors : Anatoliy Bobrovskiy,

Inspired by actual events in the days of cold war, an escaped convict steels "Saint Luke" painting from a museum which he tries to sell to a foreign tourist. Police colonel Zorin is to save the work of art from the hands of the criminal.

Actors : Dong-hwi Jang, No-shik Park, Jeong-im Nam, Mu-ryong Choi,
Directors : Il-Ho Jang,

Yu-cheong saves the life of Mu-ryeong and the two become friends. Mu-ryeong is capatured by gangsters and beaten. Yu-cheong goes to his rescue, but the gangster's boss will only free Mu-ryeong if Yu-cheong kills his friend's father

Actors : Ivan Kondov, Zhelcho Mandadzhiev, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Petar Slabakov,
Directors : Gencho Genchev,

Major Hariev, a State Security officer, manages to learn that the spying center codenamed Citadel receives encoded letters. Sometime later, the Bulgarian agent in the West reports that the ...

Actors : Eun-suk Choi, No-shik Park, Mi-ja Sa, Ji-hie Choi,
Directors : Yeong-cheol Choi,

Conman, Wang Do-seon, cheats Cheol-su out of all his savings with a dried fish scam. Cheol-su tries to commit suicide, but is saved by his half brother. His best friend is also taken in by ...

Actors : Milton Vilar, Marina Montini, Gil Anthony, C. Adolpho Chadler,
Directors : C. Adolpho Chadler,

Thriller about prisoners escaping to a remote shore and being pursued by the police and local people.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Teruo Yoshida, Yoshiko Fujita, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A companion piece to another Ishii directed picture from 1970, also starring Watase, Yoshida and Sato called PRISONERS' BACK LIST.

Actors : No-shik Park, In-suk Ahn, Ji-hie Choi, Hyeok Jang,
Directors : Tae-ho Seol,

Yong-pal's street gang is infiltrated by an undercover cop who wants to use their fighting skills to break up a drug ring

Actors : Dong-hwi Jang, Jang-kang Heo, Kung-won Nam,
Directors : Beom-gu Kang,

While searching for his brother, Kung-won meets agent Dong-hwi who is searching for some jewelry stolen from China. Kung-won comes to discover that the jewelry is stashed at the boarding ...

Actors : Ji-yeong Lim, Jang-kang Heo, Nak-hun Lee, Ji-myeong Oh,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

A young boxer is approached by a crime ring hoping to recruit him as an enforcer. When he refuses, they beat and blind him. The athlete sets out to seek revenge against those who hurt him