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This is a list of crime films released in the 1970s.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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1970 | ||||||
Bloody Mama | Roger Corman | Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud | United States | [1] | ||
Borsalino | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet | France Italy |
[2] | ||
A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan | Fabian Forte, Jocelyn Lane, Astrid Warner | United States | [3] | ||
Le Cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté | France Italy |
[4] | ||
Cold Sweat | Terence Young | Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason | France, Italy | Crime drama[5] | ||
The Cop | Yves Boisset | Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Michel Constantin | France | [6] | ||
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Reiko Oshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa | Japan | [7] | ||
La Horse | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber | France Italy West Germany |
[8] | ||
The Honeymoon Killers | Leonard Kastle | Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Dortha Duckworth | United States | [9] | ||
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Elio Petri | Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Salvo Randone | Italy | Crime drama[10] | ||
Kaidan Noboriryu | Teruo Ishii | Toru Abe, Yoshi Katō, Makoto Satō | Japan | [11] | ||
Last Leap | Édouard Luntz | Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet, Cathy Rosier | France Italy |
[12] | ||
Perfect Friday | Peter Hall | Ursula Andress, David Warner, Stanley Baker | United Kingdom | [13] | ||
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter | Yasuharu Hasebe | Nobuko Aoiki, Tatsuya Fuji, Mie Hanabusa | Japan | [14] | ||
Le temps des loups | Sergio Gobbi | Robert Hossein, Charles Aznavour, Virna Lisi | France Italy |
[15] | ||
1971 | ||||||
$ | Richard Brooks | Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe | United States | [16] | ||
10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt | United Kingdom | [17] | ||
The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam | United States | [18] | ||
Les Assassins de l'ordre | Marcel Carné | Jacques Brel, Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner | France Italy |
Crime drama[19] | ||
Les Aveux les plus doux | Édouard Molinaro | Caroline Cellier, Roger Hanin, Philippe Noiret | France Algeria Italy |
Crime drama[20] | ||
The Big Doll House | Jack Hill | Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier | United States, Philippines | Prison film[21] | ||
A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates | United Kingdom | Juvenile delinquency film[22] | ||
Le Casse | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon | France Italy |
[23] | ||
Confessions of a Police Captain | Damiano Damiani | Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo | Italy | Crime thriller[24] | ||
Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni | United States | [25] | ||
The French Connection | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider | United States | [26] | ||
Get Carter | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland | United Kingdom | [27] | ||
Il était une fois un Flic | Georges Lautner | Michel Constantin, Daniel Ivernel, Mireille Darc | France Italy |
Crime comedy[28] | ||
Just Before Nightfall | Claude Chabrol | Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer | France Italy |
Crime drama[29] | ||
Klute | Alan J. Pakula | Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi | United States | Crime thriller[30] | ||
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! | Kaneto Shindo | Japan | [31] | |||
Milano calibro 9 | Fernando di Leo | Mario Adorf, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin | Italy | [32] | ||
Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills | United States | Crime thriller[33] | ||
Sympathy for the Underdog | Kinji Fukasaku | Noboru Ando, Tomisaburo Wakayama | Japan | [34] | ||
Ten Days' Wonder | Claude Chabrol | Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert | France Italy |
[35] | ||
Villain | Michael Tuchner | Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport | United Kingdom | Gangster film[36] | ||
1972 | ||||||
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York | Luigi Vanzi | Richard Conte, Adolfo Celi | Italy | [37] | ||
Across 110th Street | Barry Shear | Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa | United States | [38] | ||
The Big Bird Cage | Jack Hill | Teda Bracci, Vic Díaz, Anitra Ford | United States | [39] | ||
Boxcar Bertha | Martin Scorsese | Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus | United States | [40] | ||
The Carey Treatment | Blake Edwards | James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle | United States | [41] | ||
La Course Du Lièvre à Travers les Champs | René Clément | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari | France United States Italy |
[42] | ||
The Doberman Gang | Byron Ross Chudnow | Hal Reed | United States | [43] | ||
Dr. Popaul | Claude Chabrol | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli | France Italy |
Crime comedy[44] | ||
Female Convict 701: Scorpion | Shunya Itō | Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi, Fumio Watanabe | Japan | [45] | ||
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | Shunya Itō | Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi, Fumio Watanabe | Japan | [46] | ||
Un Flic | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna | France | [47] | ||
Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt | United Kingdom | Crime thriller[48] | ||
The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson | United States | [49] | ||
The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan | United States | [50] | ||
Hammer | Bruce Clark | Al Richardson, Jamal Moore, Perrie Lott | United States | [51] | ||
The Harder They Come | Perry Henzell | Jimmy Cliff | Jamaica | [52] | ||
Hickey & Boggs | Robert Culp | Robert Culp | United States | Detective Movie | ||
The Hot Rock | Peter Yates | Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman | United States | [53] | ||
Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie | Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins | United States | [54] | ||
Rika the Mixed-Blood Girl | Kō Nakahira | Rika Aoki, Yasuo Arakawa, Satoshi Moritsuka | Japan | Crime thriller[55] | ||
Street Mobster | Kinji Fukasaku | Noboru Ando, Asao Koike, Noboru Mitani | Japan | [56] | ||
Super Fly | Gordon Parks, Jr. | Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier | United States | [57] | ||
Trick Baby | Larry Yust | Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart | United States | [58] | ||
The Wolves | Hideo Gosha | Kyoko Enami, Hisashi Igawa, Komaki Kurihara | Japan | [59] | ||
1973 | ||||||
Badlands | Terrence Malick | Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates | United States | [60] | ||
Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Kinji Fukasaku | Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata | Japan | [61] | ||
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Deathmatch | Kinji Fukasaku | Sonny Chiba, Seizo Fukumoto, Meiko Kaji | Japan | [62] | ||
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War | Kinji Fukasaku | Reiko Ike, Akira Kobayashi | Japan | [63] | ||
Black Caesar | Larry Cohen | Omer Jeffrey, Fred Williamson, William Wellman, Jr. | United States Italy |
[64] | ||
Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr | United States | [65] | ||
Coffy | Jack Hill | Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui | United States | Crime thriller[66] | ||
The Daring Dobermans | Byron Ross Chudnow | Joan Caulfield, Tim Considine, Claudio Martinez | United States | [67] | ||
Dillinger | John Milius | Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips | United States | [68] | ||
Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song | Shunya Itō | Meiko Kaji, Yaoi Watanab | Japan | [69] | ||
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable | Shunya Itō | Meiko Kaji | Japan | [70] | ||
The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan | United States | [71] | ||
Lady Snowblood | Toshiya Fujita | Meiko Kaji | Japan | [72] | ||
Little Cigars | Chris Christenberry | Angel Tompkins, Felix Silla, Jerry Maren | United States | Crime drama[73] | ||
The Mack | Michael I. Campus | Max Julien, Richard Pryor, Don Gordon | United States | [74] | ||
Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval | United States | [75] | ||
Night Watch | Brian G. Hutton | Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw | United Kingdom | [76] | ||
Les noces rouges | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu | France Italy |
[77] | ||
The Outfit | John Flynn | Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker | United States | [78] | ||
The Outside Man | Jacques Deray | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider | France Italy |
[79] | ||
Paño verde | Mario David | Carlos Estrada, Luis Brandoni, Julia von Grolman, Héctor Alterio | Argentina | [80] | ||
Serpico | Sidney Lumet | Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, Allan Rich, Albert Henderson, Joseph Bova, M. Emmet Walsh | United States | Crime Drama | ||
Steelyard Blues | Alan Myerson | Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle | United States | Caper[81] | ||
The Sting | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning | United States | [82] | ||
Superfly T.N.T. | Ron O'Neal | Silvio Nardo, Rik Boyd | United States | [83] | ||
The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Bud Yorkin | Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates | United States | Crime comedy[84] | ||
1974 | ||||||
11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian | Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud | United Kingdom | Crime comedy[85] | ||
Almost Human | Umberto Lenzi | Henry Silva, Anita Strindberg, Raymond Lovelock | Italy | [86] | ||
Big Bad Mama | Steve Carver | Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt | United States | [87] | ||
The Black Godfather | John Evans | Don Chastain, Damu King, Rod Perry | United States | [88] | ||
Black Samson | Chuck Bail | Rockne Tarkington, Carol Speed, William Smith | United States | [89] | ||
Borsalino & Co. | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla, Catherine Rouvel | France Italy West Germany |
[90] | ||
Caged Heat | Jonathan Demme | Barbara Steele, Erica Gavin, Juanita Brown | United States | [91] | ||
The Candy Snatchers | Guerdon Trueblood | Tiffany Bolling, Dolores Dorn, Vincent Martorano | United States | [92] | ||
Death Wish | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia | United States | [93] | ||
Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown | United States | [94] | ||
The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton | United States | [95] | ||
Gone in 60 Seconds | H. B. Halicki | Hal McClain, Markos Kotsikos, Jonathan E. Fricke | United States | [96] | ||
McQ | John Sturges | John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur | United States | [97] | ||
Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins | United Kingdom | Mystery film[98] | ||
The Nickel Ride | Robert Mulligan | Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, John Hillerman | United States | [99] | ||
Nuits rouges | Georges Franju | Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreu, Josephine Chaplin | France Italy |
[100] | ||
Rabid Dogs | Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava | Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli | Italy | [101] | ||
The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly | United States | [102] | ||
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam | United States | [103] | ||
Thieves Like Us | Robert Altman | Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck | United States | [104] | ||
Le Trio Infernal | Francis Girod | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska | France West Germany Italy |
[105] | ||
Uomini duri | Duccio Tessari | Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson | Italy France |
[106] | ||
1975 | ||||||
L'Agression | Gérard Pirès | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur | France Italy |
[107] | ||
The Black Bird | David Giler | George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander | United States | Crime comedy[108] | ||
Capone | Steve Carver | Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino | United States | [109] | ||
The Candy Tangerine Man | Matt Climber | John Daniels, Eli Haines, Tom Hankason | United States | [110] | ||
Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning | United States | [111] | ||
Female Trouble | John Waters | Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce | United States | Crime comedy[112] | ||
Flic Story | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori | France Italy |
Crime thriller[113] | ||
The Fortune | Mike Nichols | Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing | United States | Crime comedyr[114] | ||
French Connection II | John Frankenheimer | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson | United States | [115] | ||
Il faut vivre dangereusement | Claude Makovski | Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome | France | [116] | ||
Les Innocents aux mains sales | Claude Chabrol | Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti | France West Germany Italy |
Crime thriller[117] | ||
Johnny Firecloud | William Allen Castleman | Victor Mojica, Frank de Kova | United States | [118] | ||
Lepke | Menahem Golan | Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan | United States Israel |
[119] | ||
A Matter of Wife... and Death | Marvin J. Chomsky | Rod Taylor, Joe Santos, Eddie Firestone | United States | [120] | ||
Mitchell | Andrew V. McLaglen | Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxo | United States | [121] | ||
Switchblade Sisters | Jack Hill | Bill Adler, Asher Brauner, Kitty Bruce | United States | [122] | ||
Wanted: Babysitter | René Clément | Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn | West Germany Italy France Monaco |
[123] | ||
The Yakuza | Sydney Pollack | Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith | United States Japan |
[124] | ||
1976 | ||||||
L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer, Patrick Fierry | France | Crime thriller[125] | ||
Barocco | André Téchiné | Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier | France | Crime drama[126] | ||
Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Scott Baio, Jodie Foster | United Kingdom | Gangster film[127] | ||
The Con Artists | Sergio Corbucci | Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano, Capucine | Italy | Crime comedy[128] | ||
Cop | Anders Refn | Jens Okking, Dick Kaysoe, Bodil Kjer | Denmark | [129] | ||
Le Corps de mon ennemi | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier | France | [130] | ||
Ghost Train International | Bent Christensen | Dirch Passer, Preben Kaas, Axel Strøbye | Denmark | [131] | ||
The Killer Inside Me | Burt Kennedy | Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling | United States | [132] | ||
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Azizi Johari | United States | [133][134][135] | ||
Massacre at Central High | Rene Daalder | Kimberly Beck | United States | [136] | ||
Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty | United States | [137] | ||
Police Python 357 | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mathieu Carrière | France | [138] | ||
1977 | ||||||
The American Friend | Wim Wenders | Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer | West Germany France |
Crime drama[139] | ||
Fun with Dick and Jane | Ted Kotcheff | George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon | United States | Crime comedy[140] | ||
Le Gang | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Roland Bertin, Nicole Calfan | France Italy |
[141] | ||
Hitch-Hike | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Corinne Cléry, David Hess, John Loffredo | Italy | [142] | ||
A Piece of the Action | Sidney Poitier | Hope Clarke, Bill Cosby, Ja'net Dubois | United States | Crime comedy[143] | ||
Tomorrow Never Comes | Peter Collinson | Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr | United Kingdom Canada |
[144] | ||
1978 | ||||||
Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto | United States | Crime drama[145] | ||
The Cheap Detective | Robert Moore | Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan | United States | Crime comedy[146] | ||
The Driver | Walter Hill | Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani | United States | [147] | ||
Harry and Walter Go to New York | Mark Rydell | James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine | United States | Crime comedy[148] | ||
Mort d'un Pourri | Georges Lautner | Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran | France | [149] | ||
Rockers | Ted Bafaloukos | Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, Monica Craig | Jamaica United States |
Crime drama[150] | ||
The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould | Canada | [151] | ||
Violette Nozière | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran | United States France |
Crime drama[152] | ||
Who'll Stop the Rain? | Karel Reisz | Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty | United States | [153] | ||
1979 | ||||||
10 Violent Women | Ted V. Mikels | Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Georgia Morgan | United States | [154] | ||
Buffet froid | Bertrand Blier | Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet | France | Crime comedy[155] | ||
The First Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down | United Kingdom | [156] | ||
Going in Style | Martin Brest | George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg | United States | [157] | ||
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery | Lawrence D. Foldes, Francis Megahy | Kevin Brennan, Warren Clarke | United States | [158] | ||
The Lady in Red | Lewis Teague | Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher | United States | [159] | ||
A Man, a Woman, and a Bank | Noel Black | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky | Canada | [160] | ||
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | Ralph Thomas | David Niven, Richard Jordan, Gloria Grahame | United States | [161] | ||
The Onion Field | Harold Becker | John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson | United States | Crime drama[162] | ||
Over the Edge | Jonathan Kaplan | Matt Dillon, Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig | United States | Juvenile delinquency film[163] | ||
Saturday, Sunday and Friday | Pasquale Festa Campanile, Franco Castellano, Sergio Martino, Pipolo | Italy Spain |
Crime comedy[164] | |||
Série Noire | Alain Corneau | Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Bernard Blier | France | [165] | ||
Vengeance Is Mine | Shōhei Imamura | Ken Ogata, Rentarō Mikuni, Chocho Miyako | Japan | [166] |