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1970s Crime Movies

Public list by WPS with 182 movies or TV shows/series

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The Godfather(1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 55min | Drama, Crime
4.4/5 (with 9,480 votes)

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

The Godfather Part II(1974)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 5,728 votes)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

The Wanderers(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’.

The Valachi Papers(1972)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 42 votes)

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.

Shaft(1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 145 votes)

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Pink Flamingos(1972)

1h 32min | Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Klute(1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 54min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 166 votes)

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Get Carter(1971)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 52min | Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 190 votes)

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

Caliber 9(1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime
3.8/5 (with 103 votes)

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 $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Death of a Corrupt Man(1977)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...

Alice, Sweet Alice(1976)

1h 48min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 104 votes)

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Directed by Alfred Sole - With Linda Miller, Lillian Roth, Alphonso DeNoble, Brooke Shields

Coonskin(1975)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 23min | Drama, Animation, Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 43 votes)

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle(1973)

1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 71 votes)

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh(1971)

1h 38min | Horror, Crime, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 60 votes)

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

Capone(1975)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 41min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 39 votes)

Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity(1973)

1h 39min | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 41 votes)

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...

Borsalino and Co.(1974)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 50min | Crime
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.".

Un Flic(1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 95 votes)

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key(1972)

1h 37min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel(1979)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.

Hustle(1975)

3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.

The Big Sleep(1978)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Crime, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Female Trouble(1974)

1h 38min | Comedy, Crime
3.5/5 (with 70 votes)

The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.

Act of Aggression(1975)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama, Crime
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 22 votes)

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

The Doberman Gang(1972)

1h 27min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.

Directed by Byron Chudnow - With Byron Mabe, Julie Parrish

The Body of My Enemy(1976)

3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.

Bloody Mama(1970)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 35 votes)

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

Wonder Women(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 22min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's mad mission.

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss(1976)

1h 31min | Drama, Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku - With Bunta Sugawara
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