A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there. Year 1972.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Gordon Hessler |
| Writer: John Bird, Stephen Coulter (novel), William Fairchild |
| Actors: Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors, Marie-José Nat, Ray Milland |
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them. Year 1972.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime |
| Director: Byron Chudnow |
| Writer: Louis Garfinkle (original story and screenplay), Frank Ray Perilli (original story and screenplay) |
| Actors: Byron Mabe, Hal Reed, Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow |
Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to found a new bank. Year 1972.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Barry Pollack |
| Writer: W.R. Burnett (novel), Barry Pollack |
| Actors: Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher, Lincoln Kilpatrick |
Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black … Year 1972.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime |
| Director: Mark Warren |
| Writer: Chester Himes (based on a novel by), Ernest Kinoy (screenplay), Peggy Elliott (screenplay) |
| Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter De Anda, Percy Rodrigues |
During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. Year 1972.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance |
| Director: Martin Scorsese |
| Writer: Ben L. Reitman (book), Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay), John William Corrington (screenplay) |
| Actors: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey |
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside. Year 1972.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Jack Hill |
| Writer: Jack Hill |
| Actors: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Teda Bracci |
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Year 1972.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Francis Ford Coppola |
| Writer: Mario Puzo (screenplay by), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay by), Mario Puzo (based on the novel by) |
| Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano |
A jailed Mexican bandit is offered a pardon if he will cross the border into Mexico and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves. Year 1971.
| Generes: Western, Crime |
| Director: Paul Hunt |
| Writer: Ronald Víctor García (screenplay), Paul Hunt (screenplay) |
| Actors: Robert Padilla, Gregory Sierra, Federico Gómez, Louis Ojena |
Gang tries to take over small town to rob its banks. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Ferde Grofé Jr. |
| Writer: Ferde Grofé Jr. |
| Actors: Richard Egan, Martha Hyer, Rick Jason, Jan Murray |
Max Marsh, a major film producer, comes to Buenos Aires. He plans his next epic there, with his famous star, Terri London. They arrive to the press, and murder. Terri finds Horst Krein and … Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Horror |
| Director: Michael Findlay |
| Writer: Michael Findlay |
| Actors: Mirtha Massa, Clao Villanueva, Xanthe Ellis, Enrique Larratelli |
Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye. Year 1971.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: Stephen Frears |
| Writer: Neville Smith |
| Actors: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule |
They seemed invincible until they pushed one man too far…but to destroy them he has to join them! Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: David L. Hewitt |
| Writer: James Gordon White |
| Actors: James Craig, Chris Noel, Anthony Eisley, William Dooley |
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. Year 1971.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Thriller |
| Director: Gordon Parks |
| Writer: Ernest Tidyman (screenplay), John D.F. Black (screenplay), Ernest Tidyman (novel) |
| Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John |
A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is … Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Robert Mulligan |
| Writer: Thomas Rogers (book), Jon Boothe (screenplay), George Sherman (screenplay) |
| Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Ruth White |
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Alan J. Pakula |
| Writer: Andy Lewis, David E. Lewis |
| Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider |
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Thriller |
| Director: Mike Hodges |
| Writer: Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel) |
| Actors: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne |