Best Thriller / Mystery Movies of the 1970s

Added on by C. Maoxian.

These are the best thriller / mystery movies of the 1970s according to John Farr. I’ve arranged them chronologically below:

English-language movies:

  1. 10 Rillington Place (1971)

  2. Duel (1971)

  3. Get Carter (1971)

  4. Klute (1971)

  5. Straw Dogs (1971)

  6. The French Connection (1971)

  7. Walkabout (1971)

  8. Deliverance (1972)

  9. Frenzy (1972)

  10. Images (1972)

  11. The Godfather (1972)

  12. Badlands (1973)

  13. Charley Varrick (1973)

  14. Don’t Look Now (1973)

  15. Mean Streets (1973)

  16. Serpico (1973)

  17. The Day of the Jackal (1973)

  18. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

  19. The Offence (1973)

  20. The Sting (1973)

  21. Chinatown (1974)

  22. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

  23. The Conversation (1974)

  24. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

  25. The Missiles of October (1974)

  26. The Parallax View (1974)

  27. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

  28. The Yakuza (1974)

  29. Thieves Like Us (1974)

  30. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

  31. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

  32. Night Moves (1975)

  33. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

  34. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

  35. All The President's Men (1976)

  36. Helter Skelter (1976)

  37. I Only Want You To Love Me (1976)

  38. Marathon Man (1976)

  39. Mikey and Nicky (1976)

  40. Taxi Driver (1976)

  41. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

  42. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

  43. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1977)

  44. The Duellists (1977)

  45. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

  46. Mad Max (1979)

  47. Scum (1979)

  48. The China Syndrome (1979)

  49. The Great Train Robbery (1979)

  50. The Onion Field (1979)

Foreign-language movies:

  1. La Rupture (1970) (French)

  2. Le Cercle Rouge (1970) (French)

  3. The Conformist (1970) (Italian)

  4. Le Boucher (1971) (French)

  5. Max and the Junkmen (1971) (French)

  6. La Bonne Annee (1973) (French)

  7. Going Places (1974) (French)

  8. Rabid Dogs (1974) (Italian)

  9. The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974) (French)

  10. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (French)

  11. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) (German)

  12. I Only Want You To Love Me (1976) (German)

  13. Mr. Klein (1976) (German)

  14. Violette (1978) (French)

  15. Buffet Froid (1979) (French)

  16. Vengeance Is Mine (1979) (Japanese)