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10 Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place is Richard Fleischer's 1971 true-crime drama, based on Ludovic Kennedy's 1961 book, about serial killer John Christie and the wrongful hanging of Timothy Evans, starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt.
A Clockwork Orange (film)
A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick's UK/US dystopian film adapting Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, stars Malcolm McDowell as Alex, a droog gang leader conditioned by state aversion therapy; withdrawn from UK cinemas until 2000, four Oscar nominations.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) is a 1971 Italian giallo directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Florinda Bolkan, with an Ennio Morricone score and a famous animal-cruelty trial over Carlo Rambaldi's fake vivisected dogs.
Absolution (1978 film)
Absolution (1978) is a British thriller directed by Anthony Page from his play, starring Richard Burton as a priest tormented by pupils' confessions; released belatedly, in the US in 1988 as Murder by Confession.
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street (1972) is a Barry Shear crime film, also called a Blaxploitation police procedural, starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto, from Wally Ferris's novel, famous for Bobby Womack's title song used in Jackie Brown.
Badlands (film)
Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as teenage fugitives loosely based on the 1958 Starkweather spree.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki tatakai), aka The Yakuza Papers: Kinji Fukasaku's 1973–74 Toei five-film yakuza series starring Bunta Sugawara, based on Kozo Mino's prison memoirs of the Hiroshima gang wars, which ended the ninkyo eiga genre.
Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha (1972) is Martin Scorsese's second feature, a Roger Corman-produced AIP crime drama with Barbara Hershey and David Carradine, loosely based on Sister of the Road, shot in Arkansas.
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick (1973), also released as The Last of the Independents, is a Don Siegel crime thriller starring Walter Matthau as a crop-duster bank robber who accidentally steals Mafia money, adapted from John Reese's novel The Looters.
Clans of Intrigue
Clans of Intrigue (楚留香, Chu Liuxiang), 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia mystery directed by Chor Yuen, written by Ni Kuang from Gu Long, starring Ti Lung as the framed thief-swordsman Chu Liuxiang; a top-five 1977 Hong Kong hit with sequels.
Coffy
Coffy (1973) is a Jack Hill blaxploitation revenge film starring Pam Grier as Nurse Coffy Coffin, a nurse avenging her sister against drug dealers; her first starring role, made for about $500,000 and grossing over $2 million, followed by Foxy Brown.
Coma (1978 film)
Coma (1978) is a Michael Crichton medical thriller for MGM, adapted from Robin Cook's 1977 novel, starring Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas; a Boston doctor uncovers patients put into irreversible comas so their organs can be sold for transplant.
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem, also known as Chester Himes's 1965 novel's 1970 screen adaptation, is Ossie Davis's comedy about Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson chasing $87,000 hidden in a bale of cotton; an early blaxploitation hit.
Death Game
Death Game, also released as The Seducers, is a 1977 American psychological thriller directed by Peter S. Traynor, starring Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel, in which two women seduce and torment a businessman in his San Francisco home; US release April 13, 1977.
Death on the Nile (1978 film)
Death on the Nile (1978) is John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation starring Peter Ustinov in his first of six Poirot appearances, with Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, and Maggie Smith; it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
Deep Red
Deep Red (Profondo rosso, 1975) is Dario Argento's Italian giallo horror-thriller starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi, with a Goblin score, a 127-minute Italian cut, and a cut US release titled The Hatchet Murders.
Deliverance
Deliverance is James Dickey's 1970 first novel and John Boorman's 1972 film about four Atlanta men canoeing the fictional Cahulawassee River, filmed on the Chattooga; a Best Picture Oscar nominee famous for Dueling Banjos and its contested Appalachian stereotypes.
Dillinger
Dillinger: John Dillinger (1903-1934), America's first Public Enemy #1, plus the 1945 Tierney and 1973 Milius films about him, later versions, and the Tron Dillinger family.
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon is Sidney Lumet's 1975 crime drama starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, based on John Wojtowicz's failed 1972 Brooklyn Chase Manhattan bank robbery; it won Frank Pierson the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Don't Look Now
Don't Look Now: 1973 Nicolas Roeg British-Italian supernatural thriller, also known by du Maurier's short-story title, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as grieving parents in Venice; famed for fractured editing, red imagery, and its controversial sex scene.
Every Nigger Is a Star
Every Nigger Is a Star: 1974 lost Jamaican film by Calvin Lockhart, filmed by William Greaves, with a Boris Gardiner soundtrack later sampled by Kendrick Lamar and used in Moonlight.
Family Plot
Family Plot (1976) is Alfred Hitchcock's 53rd and final film, a Universal comedy-thriller adapted by Ernest Lehman from Victor Canning's The Rainbird Pattern, starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, and William Devane.
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Five Dolls for an August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian giallo directed and edited by Mario Bava, starring William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, and Edwige Fenech, a Christie-style island whodunit about a resin formula.
Frenzy
Frenzy (1972), Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, a London serial-killer thriller adapted by Anthony Shaffer from Arthur La Bern's novel, starring Jon Finch and Barry Foster; his first British-shot film since Stage Fright, R-rated, Cannes closer, and a box-office hit.
Fuzz
Fuzz (1972) is an American comedy-drama crime film directed by Richard A. Colla, written by Evan Hunter from his Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel, starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Yul Brynner as the Deaf Man, shot in Boston and Los Angeles.
Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи)
Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи) is a 1971 Mosfilm Soviet comedy by Alexander Sery, written by Daneliya and Tokareva, starring Evgeny Leonov as a kindergarten director impersonating the thief Dozent; 65 million Soviet viewers.
Get Carter
Get Carter (1971) is Mike Hodges's British gangster thriller, his feature debut, adapted from Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home. Michael Caine plays London enforcer Jack Carter, who returns to Newcastle to avenge his brother's death; it influenced later British crime films and was remade in 2000 with Stallone.
Hardcore (1979 film)
Hardcore (1979) is Paul Schrader's drama starring George C. Scott as a Calvinist Michigan businessman posing as a porn producer to find his missing daughter in Los Angeles; released by Columbia February 9, 1979, co-starring Peter Boyle and Season Hubley.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) is Elio Petri's 1970 Italian political satire starring Gian Maria Volonté as a police chief who murders his mistress and plants evidence against himself; it won the 1970 Cannes Grand Prix and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Le Boucher
Le Boucher (The Butcher) is a 1970 French-Italian thriller by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne, about a Périgord schoolmistress and a butcher-veteran linked to village knife murders.