Feature Film, Released between 1968-12-05 and 1977-05-12, User Rating between 5.2 and 10, Rating Count at most 1,000,000, Thriller, US-G/US-PG/US-PG-13/US-R, Color, United States, English, Running Time between 60 and 200 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Jaws (1975)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 533,591 | Gross: $260.00M
2. Westworld (1973)
PG | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold
Votes: 50,564 | Gross: $16.06M
3. Mean Streets (1973)
18+ | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time hood aspires to work his way up the ranks of a local mob.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
Votes: 96,254 | Gross: $3.13M
4. Chinatown (1974)
18A | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 285,131 | Gross: $29.20M
5. Deliverance (1972)
18A | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 96,263 | Gross: $7.06M
6. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
18A | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 229,752 | Gross: $50.00M
7. Serpico (1973)
R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Votes: 105,846 | Gross: $29.80M
8. Enter the Dragon (1973)
13+ | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri
Votes: 93,959 | Gross: $25.00M
9. The French Connection (1971)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco
Votes: 106,729 | Gross: $15.63M
10. The Conversation (1974)
G | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 94,947 | Gross: $4.42M
11. Dirty Harry (1971)
18A | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Votes: 139,944 | Gross: $35.90M
12. The Italian Job (1969)
PG | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Votes: 40,415
13. The Towering Inferno (1974)
165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 38,142 | Gross: $116.00M
14. The Stepford Wives (1975)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman
Votes: 15,705 | Gross: $8.72M
15. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons
Votes: 39,847 | Gross: $84.56M
16. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
14A | 117 min | Mystery, Thriller
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Votes: 46,526 | Gross: $41.51M
17. The Last House on the Left (1972)
18+ | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 31,522 | Gross: $3.10M
18. Soylent Green (1973)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Votes: 55,749
19. All the President's Men (1976)
14 | 138 min | Biography, Drama, History
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam
Votes: 99,248 | Gross: $70.60M
20. Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker
Votes: 1,311 | Gross: $3.05M
21. Marathon Man (1976)
14A | 125 min | Crime, Thriller
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane
Votes: 56,508 | Gross: $21.71M
22. Death Wish (1974)
18+ | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Votes: 34,553 | Gross: $22.00M
23. House of Dark Shadows (1970)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Roger Davis
Votes: 2,550 | Gross: $4.00M
24. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
A | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 16,159
25. Le locataire (1976)
13+ | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 38,116 | Gross: $1.92M
26. Straw Dogs (1971)
13+ | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 55,060
27. Sisters (1972)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A fledgling Staten Island journalist witnesses a brutal murder in the neighboring apartment of a French-Canadian model, but the police do not believe that the crime took place. With the help of a private detective, she seeks out the truth.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley
Votes: 14,836 | Gross: $0.35M
28. The Long Goodbye (1973)
A | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Votes: 25,008 | Gross: $0.96M
29. Klute (1971)
18A | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Votes: 21,471 | Gross: $17.44M
30. The Getaway (1972)
PG | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers
Votes: 27,122 | Gross: $36.73M
31. Walking Tall (1973)
PA | 125 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn
Votes: 4,908 | Gross: $1.49M
32. Shaft (1971)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John
Votes: 16,338 | Gross: $16.69M
33. Futureworld (1976)
108 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner
Votes: 9,539
34. Vanishing Point (1971)
14A | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger
Votes: 26,004
35. Play Misty for Me (1971)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Votes: 24,836 | Gross: $11.80M
36. Magnum Force (1973)
18+ | 124 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
San Francisco Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the trail of vigilante Police Officers who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul
Votes: 54,523 | Gross: $4.56M
37. Murder by Death (1976)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Director: Robert Moore | Stars: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Eileen Brennan
Votes: 32,774
38. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
PA | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West
Votes: 42,448
39. THX 1138 (1971)
14A | 86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie
Votes: 46,905 | Gross: $2.44M
40. Airport (1970)
PG | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Directors: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg
Votes: 16,961 | Gross: $100.49M
41. The Beguiled (1971)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 15,326
42. The Parallax View (1974)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn
Votes: 14,710
43. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
G | 131 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid
Votes: 32,825 | Gross: $3.42M
44. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
13+ | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Votes: 25,575
45. The Enforcer (1976)
PG | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
San Francisco Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with female partner Inspector Kate Moore, with whom he's not too excited to be working.
Director: James Fargo | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 40,363 | Gross: $46.20M
46. The Eiger Sanction (1975)
14+ | 129 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Classical art professor and collector Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy
Votes: 17,073
47. The Wrecking Crew (1968)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Gold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan
Votes: 2,610
48. 3 Women (1977)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other a mysterious teenager, share a bizarre relationship.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Votes: 13,289
49. Phase IV (1974)
13+ | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them.
Director: Saul Bass | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford
Votes: 7,222
50. Wake in Fright (1971)
109 min | Drama, Thriller
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Votes: 9,837 | Gross: $0.05M
51. Communion (1976)
18+ | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In 1961, a divorced catholic couple's life is turned upside down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Communion, and a series of subsequent stabbings.
Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster
Votes: 9,047
52. Sleuth (1972)
138 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Votes: 43,929 | Gross: $4.08M
53. Family Plot (1976)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
Votes: 19,984
54. The Omega Man (1971)
14A | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Lone survivor, doctor Robert Neville, struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race while fighting The Family, a savage luddite death cult formed by the zombie-like infected to erase the past.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo
Votes: 28,264 | Gross: $8.72M
55. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
18A | 129 min | Drama, Thriller
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 7,474
56. A Boy and His Dog (1975)
14A | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Director: L.Q. Jones | Stars: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton, Tim McIntire
Votes: 16,236 | Gross: $6.90M
57. Foxy Brown (1974)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A voluptuous black vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter
Votes: 8,879 | Gross: $2.46M
58. Airport '77 (1977)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland
Votes: 9,335 | Gross: $30.00M
59. Earthquake (1974)
PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene
Votes: 13,315 | Gross: $79.70M
60. Coffy (1973)
13+ | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott
Votes: 9,626
61. Bug (1975)
PG | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ... See full summary »
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson
Votes: 1,972 | Gross: $3.60M
62. Black Sunday (1977)
18A | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 6,513 | Gross: $15.77M
63. Night Moves (1975)
100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin
Votes: 11,327
64. The Mechanic (1972)
100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland
Votes: 12,124
65. Silver Streak (1976)
PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan
Votes: 17,345
66. The Day of the Locust (1975)
R | 144 min | Drama, Thriller
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Votes: 5,006 | Gross: $17.79M
67. Prime Cut (1972)
88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins
Votes: 4,403 | Gross: $0.52M
68. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips
Votes: 10,631
69. Burnt Offerings (1976)
PA | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A family moves into a large old mansion that seems to have a mysterious and maybe even sinister power over their actions.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 9,396
70. They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
97 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
California small town police chief investigates a suspicious death involving the victim's own dog that presumably killed its owner.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, Harry Guardino
Votes: 989
71. The Last of Sheila (1973)
14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason, Dyan Cannon
Votes: 5,057
72. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
18+ | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Votes: 17,679
73. Airport 1975 (1974)
PG | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 9,293 | Gross: $47.29M
74. Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage girl murders at Oceanfront High School.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John David Carson
Votes: 1,930
75. 'Gator Bait (1973)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ... See full summary »
Directors: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian | Stars: Claudia Jennings, Sam Gilman, Douglas Dirkson, Clyde Ventura
Votes: 702
76. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Votes: 6,458 | Gross: $4.36M
77. Obsession (1976)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Votes: 8,580 | Gross: $1.00M
78. French Connection II (1975)
PG | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard
Votes: 16,260 | Gross: $12.48M
79. Eaten Alive (1976)
16+ | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns
Votes: 6,331
80. The Big Doll House (1971)
95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills
Votes: 2,241 | Gross: $10.00M
81. Grizzly (1976)
91 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, Joan McCall
Votes: 3,953
82. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one is in the bag - thereby, the police precipitate in a desperate car chase against Pace and his Eleanor across Southern California.
Director: H.B. Halicki | Stars: H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre
Votes: 8,116 | Gross: $40.00M
83. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Down on their luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one nightstand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 6,078
84. The Offence (1973)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen
Votes: 5,456
85. The Killer Elite (1975)
14A | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins
Votes: 5,360
86. Mr. Majestyk (1974)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell
Votes: 7,337
87. Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Lynda Carter, Jesse Vint, Merrie Lynn Ross
Votes: 662
88. Charley Varrick (1973)
16+ | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man, his wife, and their friend, stage a bloody bank robbery, unaware they are stealing money from the Mob.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 10,610
89. The Yakuza (1974)
14A | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman
Votes: 7,597
90. Audrey Rose (1977)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck, Susan Swift
Votes: 5,308
91. Joe (1970)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Two men, Bill, a wealthy conservative, and Joe, a far-right factory worker, form a dangerous bond after Bill confesses to murdering his daughter's drug dealer boyfriend to Joe.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott
Votes: 2,712 | Gross: $19.32M
92. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
125 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page
Votes: 10,274 | Gross: $3.30M
93. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
R | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 2,229
94. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A hooded serial killer terrorizes the residents of a small Arkansas town in 1946.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem
Votes: 6,741
95. Bonnie's Kids (1972)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two rebellious sisters and a crooked P.I. attempt to escape from the girls' mobster uncle with $400,000 in stolen loot, and meet nefarious characters while dodging a bickering pair of enforcers.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Steve Sandor, Robin Mattson, Scott Brady
Votes: 676
96. Across 110th Street (1972)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Frank Adu
Votes: 4,874 | Gross: $3.60M
97. Blacula (1972)
13+ | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 5,679 | Gross: $2.18M
98. Fuzz (1972)
92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 1,514 | Gross: $0.57M
99. Super Fly (1972)
14A | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris
Votes: 6,357
100. The Night Visitor (1971)
106 min | Crime, Thriller, Horror
In a Scandinavian insane asylum, murderer Salem sneaks-out at night to exact his revenge on those who he deems responsible for his predicament.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 1,384
101. Marooned (1969)
PG | 134 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus
Votes: 4,504 | Gross: $8.94M
102. The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.
Directors: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman | Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts
Votes: 4,274 | Gross: $0.46M
103. Black Mama White Mama (1973)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison and are pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the army.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden
Votes: 2,708 | Gross: $0.19M
104. Madhouse (1974)
92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri
Votes: 3,296
105. Cannonball (1976)
PG | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 4,145 | Gross: $3.27M
106. Lipstick (1976)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft
Votes: 1,927 | Gross: $8.33M
107. The Drowning Pool (1975)
PG | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 4,613
108. Ben (1972)
94 min | Horror, Thriller
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 2,386 | Gross: $0.77M
109. God Told Me To (1976)
13+ | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 4,513
110. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster
Votes: 4,454 | Gross: $15.18M
111. Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Thriller
In this satire on 70s B-movie industry, a young ditsy pretty blond arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. After some mishap, a shady agent finds her a job with a sleazy B-movie crew plagued by strange deadly accidents.
Directors: Allan Arkush, Joe Dante | Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, George Wagner, Jonathan Kaplan
Votes: 996
112. McQ (1974)
PG | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Seattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. Mq is a cop with a mission.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst
Votes: 4,596 | Gross: $0.24M
113. Race with the Devil (1975)
88 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
Votes: 5,534 | Gross: $12.64M
114. Marlowe (1969)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno
Votes: 3,007
115. The Baby (1973)
PG | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor
Votes: 2,787
116. Dead of Night (1974)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young soldier killed in Vietnam inexplicably shows up to his family home one night.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe
Votes: 4,170
117. Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.
Director: James William Guercio | Stars: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley
Votes: 4,641 | Gross: $0.30M
118. The Night of the Following Day (1969)
93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.
Directors: Hubert Cornfield, Richard Boone | Stars: Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin
Votes: 1,921
119. Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner
Votes: 5,524 | Gross: $0.09M
120. The Other (1972)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky
Votes: 5,439 | Gross: $0.48M
121. Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson
Votes: 524
122. Act of Vengeance (1974)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the mind of would-be rapists.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Lisa Moore
Votes: 701
123. Truck Turner (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Blaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Votes: 2,434
124. The Roommates (1973)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Heather, Beth, Carla, Brea, and Heather's cousin Paula are five lovely young ladies who decide to spend their summer vacation at Lake Arrowhead. While at Lake Arrowhead the women hit the ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Marki Bey, Pat Woodell, Roberta Collins, Laurie Rose
Votes: 232
125. Villain (1971)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden
Votes: 1,318
126. Jackson County Jail (1976)
84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Lisa Copeland, Cliff Emmich
Votes: 961
127. Bluebeard (1972)
125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds the women he's after, he murders her.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon
Votes: 1,137
128. Death Game (1977)
R | 91 min | Thriller
Two young girls come to the home of a businessman whose family is away on his birthday. They seduce him and afterwards, however, they tie him up, torture him and trash his house.
Director: Peter S. Traynor | Stars: Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel, Beth Brickell
Votes: 706
129. The Hindenburg (1975)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes
Votes: 4,996 | Gross: $27.95M
130. The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
104 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, John Dehner
Votes: 2,617 | Gross: $2.30M
131. The Candy Snatchers (1973)
18A | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A mute boy stumbles upon a teenage girl kidnapped and buried alive by three young psychopathic criminals who want to extort diamonds from her rich stepfather, but can he help her?
Director: Guerdon Trueblood | Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, Susan Sennett, Brad David
Votes: 1,219
132. The Don Is Dead (1973)
18 | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri
Votes: 1,004
133. The Terminal Man (1974)
107 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat
Votes: 1,955
134. Juggernaut (1974)
PG | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins
Votes: 4,821
135. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
83 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Peggy Feury
Votes: 1,536
136. Two-Minute Warning (1976)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police races against time to eliminate him.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
Votes: 3,319
137. The Adventurers (1970)
171 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Thommy Berggren
Votes: 632 | Gross: $2.84M
138. Dirty O'Neil (1974)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Directors: Leon Capetanos, Lewis Teague | Stars: Morgan Paull, Art Metrano, Pat Anderson, Jeane Manson
Votes: 203
139. Hustle (1975)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield
Votes: 2,098
140. The Domino Principle (1977)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
A Vietnam War veteran, imprisoned for murder, is offered his freedom if he accepts to undertake a contract killing for a shady organization.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 2,019
141. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A cowboy named Tuck Kirby seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public.
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 3,919
142. Z.P.G. (1972)
97 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Concerned with population over-growth, the Earth government bans, under the penalty of death, all pregnancies but one couple decides to risk having a real baby rather than legally adopt a cyborg child.
Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento
Votes: 1,245
143. The Klansman (1974)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 1,282
144. That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
113 min | Drama, Thriller
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. However, she has no intention of ever letting him leave again.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, David Garfield
Votes: 1,356 | Gross: $1.06M
145. Black Gunn (1972)
96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A black militant group robs a Mafia bookie joint and also steals the incriminating ledgers which, in turn, prompts retaliation from the mob.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Jim Brown, Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 513 | Gross: $1.10M
146. The Outfit (1973)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan
Votes: 3,036
147. Vigilante Force (1976)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After oil is found in a small town and local factory shut down, violent crime skyrockets. A young man has had enough and calls in his older brother, a cynical Vietnam vet, who cleans the streets but then tries to take over the town.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters
Votes: 717
148. Tower of Evil (1972)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Bryant Haliday, Jill Haworth, Mark Edwards, Jack Watson
Votes: 1,404 | Gross: $0.03M
149. The MacKintosh Man (1973)
PG | 98 min | Thriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews
Votes: 4,080
150. The Tamarind Seed (1974)
PG | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During a Caribbean vacation, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian Agent.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 1,687
151. Open Season (1974)
100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch
Votes: 513
152. Hickey & Boggs (1972)
G | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
Director: Robert Culp | Stars: Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Ta-Ronce Allen, Rosalind Cash
Votes: 989
153. Skyjacked (1972)
101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins
Votes: 1,638 | Gross: $2.09M
154. Darker Than Amber (1970)
PG | 96 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri
Votes: 420
155. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren
Votes: 3,715
156. Punishment Park (1971)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson
Votes: 5,991
157. Cleopatra Jones (1973)
PG | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 2,558 | Gross: $2.98M
158. Massacre at Central High (1976)
87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
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.
Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine, Kimberly Beck
Votes: 1,579
159. Stacey (1973)
81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The sleazy and dangerous adventures of a gorgeous female private detective.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Anne Randall, Alan Landers, James Westmoreland, Anitra Ford
Votes: 159
160. False Face (1977)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Director: John Grissmer | Stars: Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll
Votes: 414
161. The Laughing Policeman (1973)
13+ | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen
Votes: 2,355 | Gross: $1.36M
162. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
146 min | Drama, Thriller
An imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 2,755
163. The Killing Kind (1973)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders
Votes: 772
164. Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready
Votes: 2,224 | Gross: $0.21M
165. Executive Action (1973)
PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, History
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green
Votes: 2,428
166. The New Centurions (1972)
14+ | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An idealistic rookie cop joins the L.A.P.D. to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson
Votes: 2,195
167. Child's Play (1972)
14A | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Ron Weyand
Votes: 918 | Gross: $0.13M
168. Three the Hard Way (1974)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier
Votes: 1,087 | Gross: $1.28M
169. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
Director: Richard Blackburn | Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke
Votes: 1,947
170. The Stone Killer (1973)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A top New York detective is sent to Los Angeles where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo
Votes: 2,656 | Gross: $1.39M
171. Fear Is the Key (1972)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet
Votes: 1,291
172. Bone (1972)
13+ | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin
Votes: 970
173. Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
PG | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo
Votes: 2,562 | Gross: $10.00M
174. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
113 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson
Votes: 4,091
175. What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
14A | 101 min | Crime, Musical, Mystery
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Micheál MacLiammóir
Votes: 1,578
176. Terminal Island (1973)
88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
It's every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen
Votes: 753
177. Walking Tall Part II (1975)
PG | 109 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late-1960s Tennessee.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Bo Svenson, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler, Robert DoQui
Votes: 1,100
178. Warlock Moon (1973)
89 min | Horror, Thriller
A college girl meets a reporter, they take a trip to the country, and they wind up meeting a creepy old woman who lives in a closed-down resort.
Director: William Herbert | Stars: Laurie Walters, Joe Spano, Edna MacAfee, Harry Bauer
Votes: 369
179. Scorpio (1973)
114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos
Votes: 3,753
180. The Organization (1971)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sheree North
Votes: 1,465 | Gross: $1.50M
181. The Blue Bird (1976)
G | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl ( Patsy Kensit ) and her brother Tyltyl ( Todd Lookinland ), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by the ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner
Votes: 953 | Gross: $0.89M
182. Savage Intruder (1970)
100 min | Horror, Thriller
An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to takeover the large estate.
Director: Donald Wolfe | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, David Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Virginia Wing
Votes: 231
183. Private Parts (1972)
87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio, Laurie Main
Votes: 1,397
184. Black Caesar (1973)
87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin
Votes: 2,967
185. Slither (1973)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Thriller, Crime
A car thief gets out on parole from a penitentiary and intends to go straight. Nonetheless, he ends up in a wild goose chase for stolen cash, together with a small-time bandleader and his wife, and a friendly free-spirited woman.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, Louise Lasser
Votes: 1,183
186. The Internecine Project (1974)
89 min | Action, Thriller
A retired agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry
Votes: 694
187. The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman (Shirley MacLaine) begins to suspect that her brother (Perry King) is possessed by a voodoo spirit.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott, Lisa Kohane
Votes: 877 | Gross: $0.17M
188. St. Ives (1976)
94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, John Houseman, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 1,921
189. Busting (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 1,088 | Gross: $0.11M
190. Figures in a Landscape (1970)
R | 110 min | Action, Thriller
Two escapees are on the run in the wilderness of an unspecified country. Wherever they go, they are followed by a menacing black helicopter.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm
Votes: 1,172
191. The Late Show (1977)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche
Votes: 2,298
192. Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery
Votes: 1,245 | Gross: $1.45M
193. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
96 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid 1970s New Orleans, Louisiana. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup
Votes: 927
194. You'll Like My Mother (1972)
92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was recently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed in... See full summary »
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Sian Barbara Allen
Votes: 563
195. 'Sheba, Baby' (1975)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger
Votes: 1,209
196. One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
100 min | Family, Adventure, Comedy
A suspected Western spy steals a secret microfilm from China and hides it in the skeleton of a museum dinosaur, prompting a frantic search for it by various interested parties.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo, Hugh Burden
Votes: 1,561
197. Flareup (1969)
PG-13 | 100 min | Thriller
A psycho stalks go-go dancer from Las Vegas, Nevada to Los Angeles, California.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew, Don Chastain
Votes: 272
198. Ransom (II) (1974)
PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In a Scandinavian country, national security chief Colonel Tahlvik is tasked to rescue the passengers of a high-jacked British airliner while the British Ambassador is being held hostage at his residence by another terrorist team.
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham, Isabel Dean
Votes: 1,773
199. Sugar Cookies (1973)
R | 82 min | Drama, Thriller
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: George Shannon, Mary Woronov, Lynn Lowry, Monique van Vooren
Votes: 425 | Gross: $0.08M
200. Un homme est mort (1972)
104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After fulfilling a contract killing in Los Angeles, a French hit man becomes the target of a hit himself and tries to flee back to Paris.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 794
201. Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)
102 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Ed Ragozzino | Stars: George Lauris, Steve Boergadine, Jim Bradford, Ken Kenzle
Votes: 566
202. A Reflection of Fear (1972)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother's house with the woman he plans to marry.
Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure, Sondra Locke
Votes: 510
203. Hell's Belles (1969)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When hot-headed Dan out-drives the thoroughly vicious Tony in a motorcycle race and wins a brand new bike, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes one blazing gas station and a disastrous rock slide.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Jocelyn Lane, Adam Roarke, Angelique Pettyjohn
Votes: 225
204. Sitting Target (1972)
93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward
Votes: 1,158
205. Chosen Survivors (1974)
99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ... See full summary »
Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 711
206. Wicked, Wicked (1973)
95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast... See full summary »
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady
Votes: 493
207. The Centerfold Girls (1974)
91 min | Thriller
A depraved religious fanatic sets out to punish all the "immoral" women who have posed for the center-fold of a men's magazine.
Director: John Peyser | Stars: Jaime Lyn Bauer, Aldo Ray, Dennis Olivieri, Janet Wood
Votes: 611
208. Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cocky Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California. His girlfriend gets busted with the second load. He and a friend go against a dirty cop and a Cuban gangster to get the load and the girl back.
Director: Paul Williams | Stars: Howard Gardner, Robert F. Lyons, Ellen Barber, John Lithgow
Votes: 161
209. Blade (1973)
90 min | Mystery, Thriller
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
Director: Ernest Pintoff | Stars: John Marley, Jon Cypher, Kathryn Walker, William Prince
Votes: 201
210. Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
89 min | Horror, Thriller
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pataki | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 556
211. Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
82 min | Crime, Thriller
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenage daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they meet Harold and he's got other plans.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Gloria Grahame, Paul Lambert, Sondra Currie, Candice Rialson
Votes: 130
212. The Losers (1970)
95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A quintet of CIA-trained Hells Angels take their specially armored hogs to Cambodia and head across southeast Asia to rescue a captured presidential advisor.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage
Votes: 438 | Gross: $0.46M
213. Tomcats (1977)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Kerwin | Stars: Chris Mulkey, Polly King, Wayne Crawford, Daniel Schweitzer
Votes: 134
214. Hennessy (1975)
103 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the I.R.A. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard
Votes: 483
215. Killer Force (1976)
102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A five-man team of professionals undertake a daring robbery at a diamond mine.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee
Votes: 478
216. Pendulum (1969)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When police captain Frank Matthews is accused of murdering his adulterous wife and her lover he avoids arrest and sets out to find the killer.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: George Peppard, Jean Seberg, Richard Kiley, Charles McGraw
Votes: 316
217. Badge 373 (1973)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After his suspension for a Puerto Rican falling off a roof he was chasing , a New York City cop vows to keep the streets clean after his ex-Partner is Murdered, any way he can.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan
Votes: 564
218. Rage (1972)
100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.
Director: George C. Scott | Stars: George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes
Votes: 799
219. Too Hot to Handle (1977)
18 | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Sexy adventure film has international hit lady Caffaro involved in James Bondish escapades in Manila.
Director: Don Schain | Stars: Cheri Caffaro, Aharon Ipalé, Vic Diaz, Corinne Calvet
Votes: 208
220. 11 Harrowhouse (1974)
94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.
Director: Aram Avakian | Stars: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason, Trevor Howard
Votes: 949
221. Abduction (1975)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped by left wing terrorists.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Judith-Marie Bergan, David Pendleton, Gregory Rozakis, Catherine Lacy
Votes: 194
222. The Carey Treatment (1972)
14 | 101 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey
Votes: 1,194 | Gross: $0.49M
223. Deadly Hero (1975)
102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When disturbed New York City (NYPD) cop Lacy rescues Sally, a beautiful cellist, from deranged crook Rabbit by shooting Rabbit in cold blood, he sets off a spark of publicity that brands him the city's hero.
Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala
Votes: 251
224. Arnold (1973)
94 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.
Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Shani Wallis
Votes: 367
225. Riot (1969)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Votes: 421
226. The Super Cops (1974)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle
Votes: 783
227. Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
R | 92 min | Crime, Thriller
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Directors: David Worth, Richard Robinson | Stars: Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy
Votes: 719
228. Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In New York City, a young black boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love despite objections from each other's families.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Robert Hooks
Votes: 179
229. The Salzburg Connection (1972)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Karen Jensen
Votes: 303
230. The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
103 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts
Votes: 493 | Gross: $0.20M
231. Criminally Insane (1975)
18+ | 61 min | Horror, Thriller
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert, Robert Copple
Votes: 777
232. Don't Hang Up (1974)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross, James N. Harrell
Votes: 473
233. Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud, Brock Peters
Votes: 476
234. Newman's Law (1974)
PG | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In 1970s Los Angeles, honest cop Vince Newman struggles to win the battle against crime and against corruption in his own department.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: George Peppard, Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, Gordon Pinsent
Votes: 176
235. Permission to Kill (1975)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 251
236. The House That Cried Murder (1973)
85 min | Horror, Thriller
The neurotic and newlywed Barbara (Robin Strasser) finds her husband (Arthur Roberts) in bed with his old flame Eva (Iva Jean Saraceni). Robin doesn't get mad-she gets even. Using funds ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Marie Pélissié | Stars: Robin Strasser, John Beal, Arthur Roberts, Iva Jean Saraceni
Votes: 259
237. Psychic Killer (1975)
89 min | Horror, Thriller
A former mental patient uses astral projection to destroy the people he believes have wronged him.
Director: Ray Danton | Stars: Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 666
238. The Ransom (1977)
90 min | Crime, Thriller
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Oliver Reed, Deborah Raffin, James Mitchum, Stuart Whitman
Votes: 510
239. Man on a Swing (1974)
110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only... See full summary »
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 375
240. Policewomen (1974)
90 min | Action, Crime, Romance
A lady cop infiltrates an all-female criminal gang.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Phil Hoover, Elizabeth Stuart
Votes: 364
241. This Is a Hijack (1973)
90 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
A gambler with serious debts hijacks a small private plane, planning to collect a $1,000,000 ransom. Unfortunately, he's not in the best of company with his mates, and the F.B.I. is waiting... See full summary »
Director: Barry Pollack | Stars: Adam Roarke, Lynn Borden, Jay Robinson, Dub Taylor
Votes: 86
242. The Devil's 8 (1969)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A federal agent rounds up eight convicts to help fight a vicious moonshine gang.
Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Christopher George, Fabian, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish
Votes: 272
243. Scum of the Earth (1974)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for cigarettes, he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an ax blade ... See full summary »
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Gene Ross, Ann Stafford, Norma Moore, Camilla Carr
Votes: 219
244. W (1974)
95 min | Thriller
Katie Lewis and her husband Ben discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must struggle to discover the source of these attacks.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Twiggy, Michael Witney, Eugene Roche, Dirk Benedict
Votes: 97
245. Moving Violation (1976)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young drifter (Stephen McHattie) and his newly acquired girlfriend (Kay Lenz) witness a corrupt local Sheriff kill his deputy, soon becoming the prime suspects they set off across country to evade capture.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz, Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman
Votes: 326
246. Mr. Ricco (1975)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas
Votes: 453
247. The Jerusalem File (1972)
95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Bruce Davison, Nicol Williamson, Daria Halprin, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 50
248. Johnny Firecloud (1975)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Young American Indian gets out of the army and returns home to find his tribe victimized by a white rancher.
Director: William Allen Castleman | Stars: Victor Mohica, Ralph Meeker, David Canary, Frank DeKova
Votes: 296
249. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
108 min | Thriller
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Carol White, Paul Burke, Mala Powers, Scott Hylands
Votes: 249
250. Shoot (1976)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Two groups of armed men eye each other across a body of water. An deadly incident ensues and the first group returns to their town in fear of the consequences, which never come.They realize that far greater danger is offing.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Silva, James Blendick
Votes: 289