Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : John Considine, Stewart Moss, Cheryl Miller, Barry Coe,
Directors : Eddie Saeta,

An evil immortal magician on a killing spree targets one specific couple in an attempt to prolong his life through soul transference.

Actors : Dimitris Bislanis, Lakis Komninos, Vagelis Seilinos, Dorothy Moore,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Longing to escape his older wife and marry his young lover, peniless playboy Captain Jim pays a psychopathic killer to do the deed so that Jim can inherit her millions. Unwilling to trust ...

Actors : Stefano Patrizi, Benjamin Lev, Tomas Milian, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

In this riveting Italian exploitation thriller, three young men embark upon a terrifying series of bloody crimes, engaging in robbery, gunplay, and murder. As the entire police force ...

Actors : Nadyne Turney, Isabel Jewell, Tab Hunter, Cherie Latimer,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.

Actors : Guido De Belder, Janine Bischops, Paul Codde, Peter Faber,
Directors : Emile Degelin,

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst...

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 : Carmen Montejo, Ignacio López Tarso, Ana Martín, Ofelia Guilmáin,
Directors : José Estrada,

Mexican thriller about a mentally perturbed serial killer who considers himself a prophet. He lives with his elderly mother, who went many years to jail because she took blame of his first ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Manolis Logiadis, Mika Flora, Vangelis Kazan, Malaina Anousaki,
Directors : Tonia Marketaki,

This film tells the story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in the town of Athens.

Actors : Carlo Gentili, Jerry Colman, Raffaele Curi, Simonetta Vitelli,
Directors : Demofilo Fidani,

The customers of a masseuse fall prey to a mysterious serial killer, one by one.

Actors : Poonam Sinha, Bindu, Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha,
Directors : Feroz Chinoy,

After the brutal deaths of Kanta Mirchandani and Sabrina, Bombay's Police Commissioner concludes it to be the work of a serial killer and assigns this case to Inspector Ashok, who lives ...

Actors : Helen Morgan, Joseph Sytangco, Lito Legaspi, Anita Linda,

Three psychopaths terrorize passengers on a bus.

Actors : Jo Long, Luanne Roberts, 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 : 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 : Mitchell Ryan, Arthur Kennedy, Michael Moriarty, William Devane,
Directors : Edwin Sherin,

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Yoshio Harada, Yûdai Ishiyama, 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 : Katie Saylor, Renie Radich, Bruce Watson, Laura Hippe,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

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

Actors : Geun-hyeong Park, Mi-ha Jeong, Chu-ryeon Kim, Yeong-ae Kim,
Directors : Shin-myeong Lee,

Forensic doctors must piece together the identity of the body of a girl found by a young couple. There case takes on new urgency when they realize they may have a serial killer on their hands.