Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Actors : Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Gene Hackman, Mickey Rooney,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was ...

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, George Coe,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Manuel Gil, George Hilton, Conchita Airoldi,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, Derrel Maury,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Donald Sinden, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Gastone Moschin, Frank Wolff, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Wesley Eure, Nicolas Beauvy, Pamelyn Ferdin,
Directors : Dennis Donnelly,

A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.

Actors : Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren, Jessie Lee Fulton, Bill McGhee,
Directors : S.F. Brownrigg,

A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Stephen Forsyth, Jesús Puente, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A bridal design shop owner kills various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma that's causing him to commit murder.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Maria Rohm, Stéphane Audran, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Actors : Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.