Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : Ann Todd, Tony Beckley, Madeleine Hinde, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness ...

Actors : Ann Wells, Ramon Gordon, Kelley Swartz, Bo Brundin,
Directors : Kent Bateman,

Poor artist gets eye gouged out while committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon.

Actors : John Karlen, Susan Sullivan, Martin Speer, James Luisi,
Directors : Jeremy Hoenack,

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Uschi Glas, Jean Gabin, Jacques Richard,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.

Actors : Ellen Umlauf, Harald Baerow, Jan Koester, Susanne Uhlen,
Directors : Zbynek Brynych,

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the ...

Actors : Ivete Bonfá, Ana Paula Bajon, Marco Antonio, Ewerton de Castro,
Directors : Juan Bajon,

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.

Actors : Luanne Roberts, Jo Long, Lynn Hayes, Pierre Agostino,
Directors : Charles Nizet,

While serving in Vietnam, a demolitionist witnesses the brutal torture/rape/murder of a young woman...ultimately, he becomes a serial rapist and killer himself, preferring explosives as his murder weapon of choice.

Actors : Robert McCourt, John Harper, Russ Dubuc, Cynthia Stewart,
Directors : Dave Adams,

A psychotic killer escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree. The SWAT team it sent out to track him down.

Actors : Albert Simono, Daniel Moosmann, Jane Clayton,
Directors : Jean-Louis van Belle,

Daniel gets out of the hospital where he has been cured for "vampirical obsessions". But his life takes a weird turn as he transforms into a vampire and starts to kill women. Despite his ...

Actors : Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci,
Directors : Yvonne Rainer,

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

Actors : Ching Tang, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Helen Ma, Chok Chow Cheung,
Directors : Wu Ma,

A bounty hunter who makes her living hunting outlaws finds herself the one being hunted when a psychopathic princess wants her dead.

Actors : Helena Rojo, Jorge Luke, Cameron Mitchell, Isela Vega,
Directors : Alberto Mariscal,

A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.

Actors : Mirlaine França, Jair Delamare, Sheila Diniz, Alice Dantas,
Directors : Élio Vieira de Araújo,

A psychoanalyst will try anything to help one of his patients, a sexually impotent publicist - and that includes seducing the man's wife.

Actors : Hugo Carvana, Odete Lara, Rogério Duarte, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.

Actors : Jacques Portet, Béatrice Arnac, Daniel Emilfork, Sylvie Fennec,
Directors : Pierre Philippe,

A woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths in this bizarre French horror film with strong sadomasochistic overtones.

Actors : Katie Saylor, Renie Radich, Bruce Watson, Laura Hippe,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Yûdai Ishiyama, Yoshio Harada, Jun Hamamura,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.

Actors : N.N. Weggener, Barbara Mills, Mary Jane Shippen, Ron Dyer,
Directors : Phillip Pine,

A photographer who specializes in adult material is hired for a private assignment at an incommunicado home. He and his entourage of sexually free spirits soon find themselves stalked by a dangerous psychopath.

Actors : Valerie Van Ost, Patricia Leventon, Morris Perry, Simon Merrick,
Directors : Rodney Giesler,

An insomniac man who lives in a sterile urban environment has a strange waking dream one night in which he experiences a surreal adventure incorporating wild nature and sexual freedom.

Actors : Faryal, Danny Denzongpa, Mahendra Sandhu, Jagdeep,
Directors : Mohammed Hussain,

A Bombay cop tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims.