# List of crime films of the 1970s

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