A list of thriller films released in the 1970s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||||
| And Soon the Darkness | Robert Fuest | Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Eles | ||||
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi | ||||
| The Breach | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet | ||||
| The Butcher | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne | ||||
| Le Cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand | ||||
| Cold Sweat | Terence Young | Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland | ||||
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent | Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent | ||||
| Dernier domicile connu | José Giovanni | Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin | ||||
| Five Dolls for an August Moon | Mario Bava | William Berger, Edwige Fenech, Renato Rossini | ||||
| Fragment of Fear | Richard Sarafian | David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson | ||||
| Hatchet for the Honeymoon | Mario Bava | Femi Benussi, Laura Betti, Alan Collin | ||||
| La Horse | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber | Crime thriller | |||
| The Kremlin Letter | John Huston | Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green | ||||
| Nelle pieghe della carne | Sergio Bergonzelli | Eleonora Rossi-Drago | ||||
| Nightmares Come at Night | Jesús Franco | Diana Lorys | ||||
| Qui? | Leonard Keigel | Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti | ||||
| Rider on the Rain | René Clément | Marlène Jobert, Charles Bronson, Annie Cordy | ||||
| 1971 | ||||||
| L'aiguana della lingua di fuoco | Riccardo Freda | Dominique Boschero, Werner Pochath | ||||
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam | ||||
| The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise | Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson | ||||
| The Case of the Scorpion's Tail | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Luigi Pistilli, Janine Reynaud | ||||
| Le casse | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon | Crime thriller | |||
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Emilio Marchesini, Vittorio Congia | ||||
| Cold Eyes of Fear | Enzo G. Castellari | Gianni Garko, Franco Marletta, Julián Mateos | ||||
| The Deadly Trap | René Clément | Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins | ||||
| The Devil With Seven Faces | Osvaldo Civirani | Carroll Baker, Stephen Boyd, George Hilton | ||||
| Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni | ||||
| $ | Richard Brooks | Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe | Comedy thriller | |||
| Duel | Steven Spielberg | Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone | ||||
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet | Dario Argento | Michael Brandon | ||||
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman | Action thriller | |||
| Fright | Peter Collinson | Tara Collinson | ||||
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland | Crime thriller | |||
| Giornata nera per l'ariete | Luigi Bazzoni | Wolfgang Preiss, Franco Nero | ||||
| Gumshoe | Stephen Frears | Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay | ||||
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland | ||||
| A Lizard in a Woman's Skin | Lucio Fulci | Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker | ||||
| La Morte cammina con i tacchi alti | Luciano Ercoli | Nieves Navarro, Frank Wolff, Simon Andreu | ||||
| Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills | ||||
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim | Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Angie Dickinson | Comedy thriller | |||
| The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Robert Wynn | Richard Schuyler, Jim Healey | ||||
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey | ||||
| Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov | ||||
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan | ||||
| Vanishing Point | Richard C. Sarafian | Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger | Action thriller | |||
| What's the Matter with Helen? | Curtis Harrington | Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver | ||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| L'Attentat | Yves Boisset | Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg | ||||
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carmineo, Anthony Ascott | Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Annabella Incontrera | ||||
| La Course Du Lièvre à Travers les Champs | René Clément | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari | ||||
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Samuel Fuller | Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Anton Diffring | ||||
| Don't Torture a Duckling | Lucio Fulci | Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian | ||||
| Fear Is the Key | Michael Tuchner | Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon | ||||
| Un flic | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna | Crime thriller | |||
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | Jon Finch, Barry Foster | ||||
| The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Images | Robert Altman | Susannah York, René Auberjonois | ||||
| The Mechanic | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Keenan Wynn, Jan-Michael Vincent | Crime thriller | |||
| La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte | Luciano Ercoli | Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Pietro Martellanz | ||||
| The Other | Robert Mulligan | Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky | ||||
| Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie | Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins | ||||
| Pulp | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander | Comedy thriller | |||
| Seven Blood Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Pier Paolo Capponi, Franco Fantasia, Uschi Glas | ||||
| Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine | Psychological thriller | |||
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse | ||||
| Straight on Till Morning | Peter Collinson | Tom Bell, Harold Berens, James Bolam | ||||
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Joachim Fuchsberger, Camille Keaton, Fabio Testi | ||||
| Who Saw Her Die? | Aldo Lado | Dominique Boschero, Adolfo Celi, Peter Chatel | ||||
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington | Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson | Psychological thriller | |||
| You'll Like My Mother | Lamont Johnson | Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas | ||||
| 1973 | ||||||
| Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| The Crazies | George A. Romero | Edith Bell, Lane Carroll, Will Disney | Action thriller | |||
| The Day of the Dolphin | Mike Nichols | George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Paul Sorvino | ||||
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland | ||||
| The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale | ||||
| Executive Action | David Miller | Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer | ||||
| The Laughing Policeman | Stuart Rosenberg | Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr. | ||||
| The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt | ||||
| The MacKintosh Man' | John Huston | Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason | ||||
| Magnum Force | Ted Post | Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan | Action thriller | |||
| Night Flight from Moscow | Henri Verneuil | Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Outside Man | Jacques Deray | Jean-Louis Trintignan, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| The Pyx | Harvey Hart | Louise Rinfret | ||||
| Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles | Georges Lautner | André Pousse, Jean Lefebvre, Dani | ||||
| The Outfit | John Flynn | Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker | Crime thriller | |||
| Scorpio | Michael Winner | Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield | ||||
| Shamus | Buzz Kulik | Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan | Comedy thriller | |||
| Le silencieux | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Suzanne Flon | ||||
| Sisters | Brian De Palma | Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt | ||||
| Thriller – A Cruel Picture | Bo Arne Vibenius | Christina Lindberg | Action thriller | |||
| Torso | Sergio Martino | Angela Covello, Carla Brait, Patricia Adiutori | ||||
| Traitement de choc | Alain Jessua | Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch | ||||
| La Valise | Georges Lautner | Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle | Comedy thriller | |||
| Wicked, Wicked | Richard L. Bare | Indira Danks, Kirk Bates | ||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| Bad Ronald | Buzz Kulik | Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch | ||||
| The Black Windmill | Don Siegel | Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig | ||||
| Borsalino & Co. | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla, Catherine Rouvel | ||||
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young | Action thriller | |||
| The Centerfold Girls | John Peyser | Aldo Ray, Kitty Carl, Jeremy Slate | ||||
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield | ||||
| Death Wish | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia | ||||
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings | Action thriller | |||
| Macon County Line | Richard Compton | Cheryl Waters, Joan Blackman, Geoffrey Lewis | ||||
| Nada | Claude Chabrol | Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato | ||||
| Nuits Rouges | Georges Franju | Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin | ||||
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell | Political thriller | |||
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels | ||||
| Il Profumo della Signora in Nero | Francesco Barilli | |||||
| Rabid Dogs | Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli | ||||
| The Secret | Robert Enrico | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert | ||||
| Les Seins de glace | Georges Lautner | Claude Brasseur, Alain Delon, Nicoletta Machiavelli | ||||
| Spasmo | Umberto Lenzi | Guido Alberti, Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall | ||||
| Street Law | Enzo G. Castellari | Renzo Palmer, Franco Nero, Gian Carlo Prete | ||||
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam | ||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Adieu poulet | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux | ||||
| L'Agression | Gérard Pirès | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Brannigan | Douglas Hickox | John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson | ||||
| The Bullet Train | Junya Sato | Ken Takakura, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Utsui | Action thriller | |||
| Deep Red | Dario Argento | David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia | ||||
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa | ||||
| Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards | Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland | ||||
| Flic Story | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori | ||||
| French Connection II | John Frankenheimer | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson | Action thriller | |||
| Hustle | Robert Aldrich | Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson | ||||
| Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement | Claude Makovski | Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome | Comedy thriller | |||
| Les innocents aux mains sales | Claude Chabrol | Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti | ||||
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss | ||||
| Jeune fille libre le soir | René Clément | Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn | Crime thriller, psychological thriller | |||
| The Killer Elite | Sam Peckinpah | James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill | ||||
| The Killer Must Kill Again | Luigi Cozzi | George Hilton | ||||
| Nude per l'assassino | Andrea Bianchi | Femi Benussi, Edwige Fenech, Erna Schurer | ||||
| Peur sur la ville | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli | ||||
| Psychic Killer | Ray Danton | Jim Hutton, Paul Burke, Julie Adams | ||||
| The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson | ||||
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway | ||||
| The Wilby Conspiracy | Ralph Nelson | Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson | ||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Alice, Sweet Alice | Alfred Sole | Linda G. Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula Sheppard | ||||
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer, Patrick Fierry | ||||
| Assault on Precinct 13 | John Carpenter | Austin Stoker, Gilbert De la Pena, Darwin Joston | Action thriller | |||
| Cadaveri Eccellenti | Francesco Rosi | Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli | ||||
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving | Supernatural thriller | |||
| The Cassandra Crossing | George Pan Cosmatos | Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson | ||||
| Comme un boomerang | José Giovanni | Alain Delon, Charles Vanel, Carla Gravina | Crime thriller | |||
| Le Corps de mon ennemi | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier | ||||
| The Enforcer | James Fargo | Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman | ||||
| Family Plot | Alfred Hitchcock | Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris | ||||
| The House with Laughing Windows | Pupi Avati | Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano | ||||
| Invisible Strangler | John Florea | Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Elke Sommer | ||||
| The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Nicolas Gessner | Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith | ||||
| The Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg | Gus Dahlstrom, Harald Hamrell, Thomas Hellberg | ||||
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider | ||||
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow | ||||
| Police Python 357 | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, François Périer | ||||
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor | ||||
| The Tenant | Roman Polanski | Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas | ||||
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges | ||||
| 1977 | ||||||
| Anima persa | Dino Risi | Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei | ||||
| Armaguedon | Alain Jessua | Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori | ||||
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck | Psychological thriller | |||
| Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller | Action thriller | |||
| The Car | Elliot Silverstein | James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley | Supernatural thriller | |||
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran | ||||
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark | ||||
| Le Gang | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Roland Bertin, Nicole Calfa | Crime thriller | |||
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle | Action thriller | |||
| Hitch-Hike | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Corinne Cléry, David Hess, John Loffredo | ||||
| Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff | Yves Boisset | Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard | ||||
| La Menace | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Marie Dubois, Carole Laure | ||||
| Rollercoaster | James Goldstone | George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark | Action thriller | |||
| Sette note in nero | Lucio Fulci | Jennifer O'Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel | ||||
| Sleeping Dogs | Roger Donaldson | Sam Neill, Bernard Kearns, Nevan Rowe | ||||
| Telefon | Don Siegel | Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence | Action thriller | |||
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning | ||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone | ||||
| The Boys From Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason | ||||
| Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro | ||||
| Coma | Michael Crichton | Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley | ||||
| Dossier 51 | Michel Deville | François Marthouret, Daniel Mesguich, Roger Planchon | ||||
| The Driver | Walter Hill | Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani | Crime thriller | |||
| Enigma Rosso | Alberto Negrin | Ivan Desny, Christine Kaufmann, Fabio Testi | ||||
| Eyes of Laura Mars | Irvin Kershner | Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif | ||||
| The Fury | Brian De Palma | Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress | ||||
| Good Guys Wear Black | Ted Post | Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes | Action thriller | |||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy | ||||
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston | John Hargreaves, Briony Behet, Michael Aitkens | ||||
| Magic | Richard Attenborough | Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith | ||||
| The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick | ||||
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar | ||||
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould | ||||
| Solamente nero | Antonio Bido | Massimo Serato, Craig Hill, Stefania Casini | ||||
| Tendre poulet | Philippe de Broca | Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric | Comedy thriller | |||
| Un papillon sur l'épaule | Jacques Deray | Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger | ||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason | ||||
| The Butterfly Murders | Tsui Hark | Lau Siu-Ming, Eddy Ko | ||||
| Les Chiens | Alain Jessua | Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu | ||||
| The China Syndrome | James Bridges | Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas | ||||
| Cuba | Richard Lester | Richard Lester, Brooke Adams, Héctor Elizondo | Political thriller | |||
| Firepower | Michael Winner | Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O. J. Simpson | ||||
| The First Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down | ||||
| Flic ou voyou | Georges Lautner | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Georges Géret | ||||
| I as in Icarus | Henri Verneuil | Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Roger Planchon | ||||
| Last Embrace | Jonathan Demme | Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken | ||||
| When a Stranger Calls | Fred Walton | Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst | ||||
| Winter Kills | William Richert | Jeff Bridges | ||||
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