Best Gangster movies of 1970s

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 : Norman Alden, Buddy Garion, Rozelle Gayle, Ray Danton,
Directors : Richard Lang,

A power struggle takes place in the black-run numbers business when the mafia tries to take over.

Actors : Gösta Bredefeldt, Per Flygare, Gudrun Berg, Stig Ossian Ericson,
Directors : Per Berglund,

Based on the story a Swedish criminal gang, Salaligan, a group of young men active during 1930's, guilty of several murders and robberies.

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

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

Actors : I.S. Johar, Rekha, Sonia Sahni, Randhir Kapoor,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A male finds his life complicated after the entry of a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata, Mikio Narita, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.

Actors : Saeed Rad, Candy Bergen,
Directors : Amir Naderi,

Ali is a young boxer who is going to America to pursue his dream of becoming a champion, but very soon is trapped by a gangster mob. He get involved with them agreeing to follow their ...

Actors : Tony Vorno, William Conners, Mary McGee, Duncan McLeod,
Directors : John Hayes,

Down on his luck alcoholic longshoreman Michael Joseph Donovan finds himself in deep trouble after he racks up a huge debt to some vicious local mobsters. Donovan decides to go on the run, ...

Actors : Francisco A. Soares, Tony Vieira, 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 : Dong-hwi Jang, No-shik Park, Mu-ryong Choi, Jeong-im Nam,
Directors : Il-Ho Jang,

Yu-cheong saves the life of Mu-ryeong and the two become friends. Mu-ryeong is capatured by gangsters and beaten. Yu-cheong goes to his rescue, but the gangster's boss will only free Mu-ryeong if Yu-cheong kills his friend's father

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 : Barbara Vittoria Calori, Maud Adams, Adolfo Celi, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Mario Lanfranchi,

The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.

Actors : Krista Nell, Daniel Martín, Fernando Sancho, Dean Reed,
Directors : Ignacio F. Iquino,

The action in this gangster movie takes place in Chicago during the 1930s. The brothers Owen, Frank and Cliff Hollinger form the "The band of the three flowers". They take a risky decision:...

Actors : Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Chris Avram, Leonard Mann, John Steiner,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

Police commissioner Baldi investigates the mysterious killings of three Mafia bosses.

Actors : Thompson Kao Kang, Ingrid Yin-Yin Hu, Jason Pai Piao, Chin-Ku Lu,
Directors : Chia Wen Sun,

A man sets out to take revenge against the drug gang that murdered his brother.

Actors : Mario Almada, Jorge Rivero, Daniela Rosen, Nadia Milton,
Directors : Toni Sbert,

On leaving prison, a former gang member faces a world of vendettas that drags him to a bloody path

Actors : Yeong-il Shin, Chang-suk Kim, Sung-il Shin, Il-yong Shin,
Directors : Woo-yeol Jeon,

Four orphans who grew up together in the same orphanage, find that their lives take very different but interconnected turns. One becomes a police officer, one a postitute, and two are rival gangsters.

Actors : Elsa Cárdenas, Patricia Ferrer, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Santo,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

SANTO CONTRA LA MAFIA DEL VICIO (Santo vs. the Vice Mafia) has the Masked Mexican wrestling legend battling a dangerous mob that has targeted various Mexican chemical plants for sabotage.

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

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

Actors : Ann Perry, Harvey Shain, Roger Gentry, Marsha Jordan,
Directors : Donald A. Davis,

Two former models who are now special agents are on the trail of mobsters in possession of a music book that has the coded location of a chest of gold bullion.