| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1970 |
| The Butcher |
Claude Chabrol |
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne |
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Psychological thriller |
| Le Cercle rouge |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand |
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Crime thriller |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
Billy Wilder |
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl |
  |
Comedy thriller |
| 1971 |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails |
Dario Argento |
Emilio Marchesini, Vittorio Congia |
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| Dirty Harry |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni |
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Action thriller |
| $ (Dollars) |
Richard Brooks |
Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe |
|
Comedy thriller |
| Duel |
Steven Spielberg |
Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Carey Loftin |
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| The French Connection |
William Friedkin |
Gene Hackman |
|
Action thriller |
| Get Carter |
Mike Hodges |
Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland |
|
Crime thriller |
| Klute |
Alan J. Pakula |
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland |
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| A Lizard in a Woman's Skin |
Lucio Fulci |
Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker |
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| Play Misty for Me |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler |
Robert Wynn |
Richard Schuyler, Jim Healey |
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| See No Evil |
Richard Fleischer |
Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey |
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| Straw Dogs |
Sam Peckinpah |
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan |
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Psychological thriller |
| Vanishing Point |
Richard C. Sarafian |
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|
Action thriller |
| What's the Matter with Helen? |
Curtis Harrington |
Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver |
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| 1972 |
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street |
Samuel Fuller |
Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Anton Diffring |
|
|
| Un flic |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna |
|
Crime thriller |
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet |
Dario Argento |
Michael Brandon |
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| Frenzy |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Jon Finch, Barry Foster |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Getaway |
Sam Peckinpah |
Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson |
|
Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Images |
Robert Altman |
Susannah York, René Auberjonois |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| The Long Goodbye |
Robert Altman |
Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt |
|
|
| Prime Cut |
Michael Ritchie |
Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins |
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| Sleuth |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1973 |
| Charley Varrick |
Don Siegel |
Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr |
|
Action thriller, crime thriller |
| The Crazies |
George A. Romero |
|
|
Action thriller |
| Don't Look Now |
Nicolas Roeg |
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland |
|
Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Day of the Jackal |
Fred Zinnemann |
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale |
|
Political thriller |
| The Outfit |
John Flynn |
Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker |
|
|
| Sisters |
Brian De Palma |
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt |
|
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| Traitement de choc |
Alain Jessua |
Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1974 |
| The Conversation |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Gene Hackman, John Cazale |
|
Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| One or the Other of Us |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jürgen Prochnow |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Parallax View |
Alan J. Pakula |
Warren Beatty |
|
Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| Les Seins de glace |
Georges Lautner |
Claude Brasseur, Alain Delon, Nicoletta Machiavelli |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1975 |
| Deep Red |
Dario Argento |
David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia |
|
Psychological thriller |
| French Connection II |
John Frankenheimer |
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|
Action thriller]] |
| Jaws |
Steven Spielberg |
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss |
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| Escape to Witch Mountain |
John Hough |
Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| Three Days of the Condor |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway |
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Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| 1976 |
| L'Alpagueur |
Philippe Labro |
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer, Patrick Fierry |
|
|
| Assault on Precinct 13 |
John Carpenter |
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|
Action thriller |
| Cadaveri Eccellenti |
Francesco Rosi |
Lino Ventura |
|
Political thriller, Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| Carrie |
Brian De Palma |
Sissy Spacek |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| The Cassandra Crossing |
George Pan Cosmatos |
Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson |
|
|
| Family Plot |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris |
|
|
| Marathon Man |
John Schlesinger |
Roy Scheider |
|
Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| Obsession |
Brian De Palma |
Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Tenant |
Roman Polanski |
Roman Polanski |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| Two-Minute Warning |
Larry Peerce |
Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1977 |
| The Domino Principle |
Stanley Kramer |
Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark |
|
Paranoid thriller |
| The Gauntlet |
Clint Eastwood |
|
|
Action thriller |
| Mort d'un Pourri |
Georges Lautner |
Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran |
|
|
| Rollercoaster |
James Goldstone |
George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1978 |
| The Boys From Brazil |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason |
|
Political thriller |
| Coma |
Michael Crichton |
Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Eyes of Laura Mars |
Irvin Kershner |
Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| The Fury |
Brian De Palma |
Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Philip Kaufman |
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy |
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|
| Magic |
Richard Attenborough |
Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith |
|
Psychoglogical thriller |
| Return from Witch Mountain |
John Hough |
Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Bette Davis, Christopher Lee |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| The Silent Partner |
Daryl Duke |
Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould |
 |
Crime thriller |
| 1979 |
| The China Syndrome |
James Bridges |
Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas |
|
Paranoid thriller |
| I as in Icarus |
Henri Verneuil |
Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Roger Planchon |
|
Political thriller |
| When a Stranger Calls |
Fred Walton |
Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Winter Kills |
William Richert |
Jeff Bridges |
|
Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
