Best Crime movies of 1973

Actors : Patricia Loran, Paul Naschy, Fernando Marín, Anastasio Campoy,
Directors : José Luis Madrid,

Some deeds done by a Nazi in France during World War II lead to more killings in the present. Are they revenge, or is there another motive? Both civilians and police tries to solve the mystery.

Actors : Amza Pellea, Gabriel Nacu, Annelise Dan, Horia Zugravescu,

In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.

Actors : Mitchell Gregg, Jennifer Bishop, Irene Byatt, Arell Blanton,
Directors : Sergei Goncharoff,

A nurse is hired to take care of a mean, cantankerous woman. It turns out that the nurse and her boyfriend are after the woman's fortune. When the woman turns up dead in a bathtub full of ...

Actors : Guillermo Gálvez, Ernesto Alban, Rossy Mendoza, Santo,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

Interpol's Office of Special Investigations sends Santo to Ecuador to investigate the kidnaping of Pedro Miller, a former counterfeiter. The OSI believes that Miller is being forced into ...

Actors : Silvia Monti, Massimo Mollica, Frederick Stafford, Pietro Ceccarelli,
Directors : Giuseppe Vari,

The Italo-American playboy Rocky Salerno is an international thief, followed step by step by an FBI Inspector, who manages to keep a "loot" also "claimed" by an international boss belonging...

Actors : Ramesh Deo, Vinod Khanna, Mehmood Jr., Kumkum,
Directors : Kalpataru,

The movie story deals with a CBI inspector who foils a diabolical plot of the uncle of a neighboring ruler from usurping the throne with the help of outside agents.

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Fanny Cano, Julissa, Tito Novaro,
Directors : José Luis Ibáñez,

The mistreated maid subdues the lady of the house and takes her place, converting the master in the slave.

Actors : Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Master Ramish Iman, Abhijeet,
Directors : Hari Dutt,

Reena lives a very wealthy lifestyle with her businessman dad, socialite mom, and widower paternal grandfather in a mansion. She studies in college, is very bored, and joins protesting ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Bouquet, Juliet Berto, Charles Denner,
Directors : Nadine Trintignant,

When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an ...

Actors : Mara Cruz, Antonio Vilar, Carlos Romero Marchent, Hugo Blanco,
Directors : Rafael Romero Marchent,

A member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is ...

Actors : Moeko Ezawa, Nozomi Yasuda, Michio Akiyama, Rie Nakagawa,
Directors : Atsushi Yamatoya,

A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill'. Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya and scripted by Yôzô Tanaka, both 'Branded to Kill's' screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Luciano Catenacci, Alfio Caltabiano, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Alfio Caltabiano,

Assunta Morano is the daughter of Bug Morano, a Sicilian boss transplanted to prohibition era Chicago.

Actors : Alex Tzi-Fei Lung, Steve Shung-Ying Yu, Jennie Jones, Nan Chiang,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

Fary, a French banker in Tientsin, is victim of an hold-up. Wang Yue-Cheng robs a pagoda statue that is a priceless jewel, and part of China's national heritage. Fary informs the French ...

Actors : Jun Aida, Hiroshi Nawa, Reiko Ike, Yûko Kanô,
Directors : Masahiro Shimura,

The pacing is great and the ending is stark, violent and particularly satisfying.

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Giannis Petropoulos, Anton Theodorelos, Maria Vassiliou,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

Two vagabond friends become lovers of the same beautiful girl, but when their third friend and leader comes out of prison, he has other plans for all of them.

Actors : Gilbert Costa, Fred Haltiner, Eva David, Melitta Gautschy,
Directors : Urs Aebersold,

After the deadly car accident of his parents the son Louis Maillard is trying to maintain their seriously indebted watch factory. Many people come running to profit from his situation, at ...

Actors : Jankidass Bhardwaj, Omi Chopra, Gurpreet, Sunil Dutt,
Directors : B.S. Thapa,

A kind-hearted and compassionate woman is abducted and held in the hideout of ferocious bandits.

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 : Salvador Ugarte, Terri Juston, Marcelle Bichette, Kitty Lewis,
Directors : Joseph P. Mawra,

A gay drag queen with a mother fixation terrorizes a city, hunting down, killing and dismembering women.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

One of the only pre - 1980s yakuza films.