Best Cop movies of 1970s

Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Bunta Sugawara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kazuhiko Hasegawa,

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Leonard Nimoy, Daliah Lavi, Richard Crenna,
Directors : Sam Wanamaker,

An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Actors : Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata, Masakazu Tamura, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Luc Merenda, Carlo Alighiero, Richard Conte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

When Milano police lieutenant Giorga's chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss's death. Going undercover to continue the chief's investigation, he plans to ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ivernel, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

For a special mission to destroy drug dealers in Nice, hardcore bachelor inspector Campana has to don the role of a married man with a child. He adjusts himself well but will have to fight a lot before being able to achieve final victory.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michèle Morgan, Philippe Léotard, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.

Actors : Richard Smedley, Cheri Caffaro, Patrick Wright, Laurie Rose,
Directors : Don Schain,

Cheerleaders and models are kidnapped & sold by a white slavery ring. Female agent is sent to rescue them.

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug ...

Actors : Brock Peters, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Edward Fox, Stephen Boyd, David Hemmings,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A dangerous, violent gang kidnaps a woman and her daughter to extort some money from her rich husband. He and her down-on-his-luck ex-cop ex-husband decide to deal with the kidnappers themselves.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Fabio Testi, Ivan Desny, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Alberto Negrin,

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."

Actors : Harold Sakata, George Lazenby, Jim Kelly, Terry Moore,
Directors : Al Adamson,

The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Gianni Dei, Michele Renzullo,
Directors : Mario Landi,

In Venice a detective is on the trail of a killer who commits a double murder (a married couple) then more grisly killings occur. Sex, drugs, gore and perversions are ingredients of this sadistic and sleazy giallo.

Actors : Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Susan George, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well ...