Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Ken Ogata, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In San Francisco, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Ireland, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Dick Richards,

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Timothy Bottoms, George Segal,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller-coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown,
Directors : James Toback,

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.

Actors : George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, James Caan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the CIA, is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.

Actors : Lizabeth Scott, Mickey Rooney, Michael Caine, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing,
Directors : Jim Clark,

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour ...

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Joe Don Baker, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.