Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing ...

Actors : Vincent Spano, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Keenan Wynn, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Michael Winner,

An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Vijay struggles as a dockworker. Eventually, he becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother, Ravi, is an educated, upright policeman. This divide causes problems in their relationship.

Actors : Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Don Adams, Rhonda Fleming, Andrea Howard,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Jack Kruschen, Loretta Swit, James Caan,
Directors : Richard Rush,

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Robert Moore,

San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.

Actors : Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Gene Wilder,

The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.

Actors : Radner Muratov, Georgiy Vitsin, Evgeniy Leonov, Saveliy Kramarov,
Directors : Aleksandr Seryj,

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after ...

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

Actors : Iftekhar, Zeenat Aman, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Chandra Barot,

Don, a wanted criminal, dies in a police chase. DSP D'Silva is the only one who knows about his death, and to get hold of the gang he trains Don-lookalike Vijay. But Vijay faces danger from the police and from within the gang.

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Judy Geeson, Richard Attenborough, John Wayne,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Chicago police lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the UK to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the USA but Larkin's hit-men prepare an ambush for Brannigan.

Actors : Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford...

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.

Actors : Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe,
Directors : John Waters,

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Strother Martin, Jill Ireland, James Coburn,
Directors : Walter Hill,

The adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans.