List of crime films of the 1970s

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The following is a list of crime films released in the 1970s.

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

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