Best Gangster movies of 1970s

Actors : Simonetta Stefanelli, Richard Conte, Giancarlo Prete, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

Giancarlo Prete stars as a police commissioner out to stop local Mafia boss Don Peppino Scalise.

Actors : Carole King, David McCoy, Susan Beacher, Kerry Chandler,
Directors : Leody M. Diaz,

An Interpol agent is killed by gangsters after he saves the life of a wealthy industrialist who stood in their way. When the rest of his family is killed in a car crash, the Interpol ...

Actors : Marco Gelardini, Italo Gasperini, Eleonora Giorgi, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Gianni Crea,

Two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them. The ...

Actors : Rosanna Fratello, Michele Placido, Corrado Gaipa, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Antonio Racioppi,

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York, finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Milena Dravic, Bekim Fehmiu, Biserka Alibegovic,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who finally seems on the road to going straight.

Actors : Susan Hogan, Richard Gabourie, Tony Curtis, Michael Wincott,
Directors : Les Rose,

In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a crime boss to use computerised data to ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Bridget Pole, Harris Yulin, Denver John Collins,
Directors : John Parsons,

When government attorney Mike Mandell begins to suffer from a mental disorder that periodically transforms him into another mobster personality known as "Sonny," his strange behavior doesn't escape the notice of a narcotics agent.

Actors : Ole Meyer, Lise Schrøder, Lene Gürtler, Jesper Langberg,
Directors : Bent Christensen,

Silva is set to be executed at the beginning of the film. Yet, later we see him again as a young-looking mysterious character. Is it the same man? He then goes after a well-known crime boss...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A former police captain recruits a group of deadly murderers to remove the corrupt and mafia Yakuza . Their first task is to intercept a briefcase from a band that trafficked drugs.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Helen, Nanda, Rajendra Nath,
Directors : Ravikant Nagaich,

Hardworking, capable, honest and dedicated CBI inspector Shyam Kumar is assigned the case of bringing to justice the criminals behind the use of fake cheques to purchase commodities. The ...

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, José María Caffarel, Helmut Berger, Sydne Rome,
Directors : José Gutiérrez Maesso,

The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Kostas Karagiorgis, Rita Bensousan, Eleni Anousaki,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Actors : Thelma Biral, Alfredo Alcón, José Slavin, China Zorrilla,
Directors : Leopoldo Torre Nilsson,

A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.

Actors : Alfredo Alcón, Edgardo Suárez, José Slavin, Marta González,
Directors : Leopoldo Torre Nilsson,

The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.

Actors : Tony Vieira, Francisco A. Soares, Heitor Gaiotti, Claudete Joubert,
Directors : Tony Vieira,

A man has sex with a woman that he shouldn't. Her lover is a crime boss and owner of a white slave ring, and he is going to retaliate.

Actors : Jan Sterling, Sarah Kennedy, Zalman King, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Joseph Adler,

A restaurateur unwisely misappropriates mob money in order to buy a house for his aging father.

Actors : Hema Malini, Dev Anand, Jeevan, Ajit,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

The Government of India has devised plans for a new kind of super aircraft. A gangster, Diwan, manages to procure this plan from corrupt military officials, and hides it in his safe along ...

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Rada Rassimov, Philippe Leroy, Henry Silva,
Directors : Giovanni Fago,

The kidnapping of a 6-year-old leads to a race against time between a Mafia hitman and a police commissioner. The mafioso then realizes the child must be saved in order to spare his own life.

Actors : Chun Hsiung Ko, George Lazenby, Yu Wang, Angela Mao,
Directors : Shan-Hsi Ting,

A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Mayumi Nagisa, Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent.