| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
| 1970 |
| And Soon the Darkness | Robert Fuest | Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Eles | United Kingdom | [1] |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi | Italy
West Germany | [2] |
| The Breach | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet | France
Italy
Belgium | [3] |
| The Butcher | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne | France
Italy | [4] |
| Le Cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand | France
Italy | [5] |
| Cold Sweat | Terence Young | Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland | France
Italy | [6] |
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent | Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent | United States | [7] |
| Dernier domicile connu | José Giovanni | Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin | France
Italy | [8] |
| Five Dolls for an August Moon | Mario Bava | William Berger, Edwige Fenech, Renato Rossini | Italy | [9] |
| Fragment of Fear | Richard Sarafian | David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson | United Kingdom | [10] |
| Hatchet for the Honeymoon | Mario Bava | Femi Benussi, Laura Betti, Alan Collin | Italy
Spain | [11] |
| La Horse | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber | France
Italy
West Germany | Crime thriller[12] |
| The Kremlin Letter | John Huston | Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green | United States | [13] |
| Nelle pieghe della carne | Sergio Bergonzelli | Eleonora Rossi-Drago | Italy | [14] |
| Nightmares Come at Night | Jesús Franco | Diana Lorys | Liechtenstein | [15] |
| Qui? | Leonard Keigel | Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti | France
Italy | [16] |
| Rider on the Rain | René Clément | Marlène Jobert, Charles Bronson, Annie Cordy | France
Italy | [17] |
| 1971 |
| The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Robert Fuest | Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten | United Kingdom | horror |
| Kuheli | Tarun Majumdar | Biswajit Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy | India | horror |
| L'aiguana della lingua di fuoco | Riccardo Freda | Dominique Boschero, Werner Pochath | Italy
France
West Germany | [18] |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam | United States | [19] |
| The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise | Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson | United States | [20] |
| Black Belly of the Tarantula | Paolo Cavara | Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet | Italy | Horror thriller[21] |
| The Case of the Scorpion's Tail | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Luigi Pistilli, Janine Reynaud | Italy
Spain | [22] |
| Le casse | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon | France | Crime thriller[23] |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Emilio Marchesini, Vittorio Congia | West Germany
Italy
France | [24] |
| Cold Eyes of Fear | Enzo G. Castellari | Gianni Garko, Franco Marletta, Julián Mateos | Italy
Spain | [25] |
| The Deadly Trap | René Clément | Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins | France
Italy | [26] |
| Death Walks on High Heels | Luciano Ercoli | Nieves Navarro, Frank Wolff, Simon Andreu | Italy | [27] |
| The Devil with Seven Faces | Osvaldo Civirani | Carroll Baker, Stephen Boyd, George Hilton | Italy | [28] |
| Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson | United States | [29] |
| $ | Richard Brooks | Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe | United States | Comedy thriller[30] |
| Duel | Steven Spielberg | Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone | United States | [31] |
| The Fifth Cord | Luigi Bazzoni | Wolfgang Preiss, Franco Nero | Italy | [32] |
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet | Dario Argento | Michael Brandon | Italy
France | [33] |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey | United States | Action thriller[34] |
| Fright | Peter Collinson | Tara Collinson | United Kingdom | [35] |
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland | United Kingdom | Crime thriller[36] |
| Gumshoe | Stephen Frears | Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay | United Kingdom | [37] |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland | United States | [38] |
| A Lizard in a Woman's Skin | Lucio Fulci | Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker | Italy
France
Spain | [39] |
| Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills | United States | [40] |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim | Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Angie Dickinson | United States | Comedy thriller[41] |
| The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Robert Wynn | Richard Schuyler, Jim Healey | United States | [42] |
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey | United Kingdom | [43] |
| Shaft | Gordon Parks | Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi | United States | Crime thriller[44] |
| Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov | Italy
Spain | [45] |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan | United Kingdom | [46] |
| Vanishing Point | Richard C. Sarafian | Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger | United States | Action thriller[47] |
| What's the Matter with Helen? | Curtis Harrington | Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver | United States | [48] |
| 1972 |
| And Hope to Die | René Clément | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari | France
Italy | [49] |
| L'Attentat | Yves Boisset | Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg | France
Italy | [50] |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carmineo, Anthony Ascott | Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Annabella Incontrera | Italy | [51] |
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Samuel Fuller | Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Anton Diffring | West Germany | [52] |
| Don't Torture a Duckling | Lucio Fulci | Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian | Italy | [53] |
| Fear Is the Key | Michael Tuchner | Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon | United Kingdom | [54] |
| Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | Bruce Lee | Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Un flic | Jean-Pierre Melville | Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna | France | Crime thriller[55] |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | Jon Finch, Barry Foster | United States
United Kingdom | [56] |
| The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson | United States | Action thriller, crime thriller[57] |
| Images | Robert Altman | Susannah York, René Auberjonois | United States
United Kingdom | [58] |
| The Mechanic | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Keenan Wynn, Jan-Michael Vincent | United States | Crime thriller[59] |
| La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte | Luciano Ercoli | Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Pietro Martellanz | Italy
Spain | [60] |
| The Other | Robert Mulligan | Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky | United States | [61] |
| Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie | Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Sissy Spacek | United States | [62] |
| Pulp | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander | United Kingdom | Comedy thriller[63] |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Pier Paolo Capponi, Franco Fantasia, Uschi Glas | West Germany
Italy | [64] |
| Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine | United Kingdom | Psychological thriller[65] |
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse | France
Italy
West Germany | [66] |
| Straight on Till Morning | Peter Collinson | Tom Bell, Harold Berens, James Bolam | United Kingdom | [67] |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Joachim Fuchsberger, Camille Keaton, Fabio Testi | West Germany
Italy | [68] |
| Who Saw Her Die? | Aldo Lado | Dominique Boschero, Adolfo Celi, Peter Chatel | Italy
West Germany | [69] |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington | Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson | United Kingdom
United States | Psychological thriller[70] |
| You'll Like My Mother | Lamont Johnson | Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas | United States | [71] |
| 1973 |
| Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr | United States | Action thriller, crime thriller[72] |
| The Crazies | George A. Romero | Edith Bell, Lane Carroll, Will Disney | United States | Action thriller[73] |
| The Day of the Dolphin | Mike Nichols | George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Paul Sorvino | United States | [74] |
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland | United Kingdom
Italy | [75] |
| The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale | United Kingdom
France | [76] |
| Enter the Dragon | Robert Clouse | Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly | United States
Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Executive Action | David Miller | Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer | United States | [77] |
| The Laughing Policeman | Stuart Rosenberg | Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr. | United States | [78] |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto | United Kingdom | |
| The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt | United States | [79] |
| The MacKintosh Man | John Huston | Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason | United Kingdom | [80] |
| Magnum Force | Ted Post | Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan | United States | Action thriller[81] |
| Night Flight from Moscow | Henri Verneuil | Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde | West Germany
France
Italy | Psychological thriller[82] |
| The Outfit | John Flynn | Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker | United States | Crime thriller[83] |
| The Outside Man | Jacques Deray | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider | France
Italy | Action thriller, crime thriller[84] |
| The Pyx | Harvey Hart | Louise Rinfret | Canada | [85] |
| Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles | Georges Lautner | André Pousse, Jean Lefebvre, Dani | France | [86] |
| Scorpio | Michael Winner | Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield | United States | [87] |
| Shamus | Buzz Kulik | Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan | United States | Comedy thriller[88] |
| Le Silencieux | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Suzanne Flon | France
Italy | Spy thriller[89] |
| Sisters | Brian De Palma | Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt | United States | [90] |
| Thriller – A Cruel Picture | Bo Arne Vibenius | Christina Lindberg | Sweden | Action thriller[91] |
| Torso | Sergio Martino | Angela Covello, Carla Brait, Patricia Adiutori | Italy | [92] |
| Shock Treatment | Alain Jessua | Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch | France
Italy | [93] |
| La Valise | Georges Lautner | Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Jean-Pierre Marielle | France | Comedy thriller[94] |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton | Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin | United States | Science fiction thriller |
| Wicked, Wicked | Richard L. Bare | Indira Danks, Kirk Bates | United States | [95] |
| 1974 |
| Act of Vengeance | Bob Kelljan | Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee | United States | Crime thriller[96] |
| Bad Ronald | Buzz Kulik | Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch | United States | [97] |
| Black Christmas | Bob Clark | Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon | Canada | Psychological thriller, paranoid thriller |
| The Black Windmill | Don Siegel | Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig | United Kingdom | [98] |
| Borsalino & Co. | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla, Catherine Rouvel | West Germany
Italy
France | [99] |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young | United States | Action thriller[100] |
| The Centerfold Girls | John Peyser | Aldo Ray, Kitty Carl, Jeremy Slate | United States | [101] |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield | United States | [102] |
| Death Wish | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia | United States | [103] |
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings | United Kingdom | Action thriller[104] |
| Macon County Line | Richard Compton | Cheryl Waters, Joan Blackman, Geoffrey Lewis | United States | [105] |
| Nada | Claude Chabrol | Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato | France
Italy | [106] |
| Nuits Rouges | Georges Franju | Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin | France
Italy | [107] |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell | West Germany
United Kingdom | Political thriller[108] |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss | United States | [109] |
| Il Profumo della Signora in Nero | Francesco Barilli | | Italy | [110] |
| Rabid Dogs | Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli | Italy | [111] |
| The Secret | Robert Enrico | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert | France | [112] |
| Les Seins de glace | Georges Lautner | Claude Brasseur, Alain Delon, Nicoletta Machiavelli | France
Italy | [113] |
| Spasmo | Umberto Lenzi | Guido Alberti, Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall | Italy | [114] |
| Street Law | Enzo G. Castellari | Renzo Palmer, Franco Nero, Gian Carlo Prete | Italy | [115] |
| The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, William Atherton | United States | Crime thriller, Drama |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo | United States | [116] |
| Who Killed Lamb? | David Cunliffe | Stanley Baker, Denis Lill, David Swift, Derek Francis, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Simon Fisher-Turner, Peter Sallis, Artro Morris, Gillian Raine, Michael Hawkins, Ingrid Hafner, Bruce Boa, Cyril Shaps | United Kingdom | |
| 1975 |
| Adieu poulet | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux | France | [117] |
| L'Agression [fr] | Gérard Pirès | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur | France
Italy | Action thriller, crime thriller[118] |
| Brannigan | Douglas Hickox | John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson | United Kingdom | [119] |
| The Bullet Train | Junya Sato | Ken Takakura, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Utsui | Japan | Action thriller[120] |
| Deep Red | Dario Argento | David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia | Italy | [121] |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa | United States | [122] |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards | Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles | United States | [123] |
| Flic Story | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori | France
Italy | [124] |
| French Connection II | John Frankenheimer | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson | United States | Action thriller[125] |
| Hustle | Robert Aldrich | Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson | United States | [126] |
| Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement | Claude Makovski | Claude Brasseur, Annie Girardot, Sydne Rome | France | Comedy thriller[127] |
| Les innocents aux mains sales | Claude Chabrol | Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti | France
West Germany
Italy | [128] |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss | United States | [129] horror |
| Wanted: Babysitter | René Clément | Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn | West Germany
France
Italy | Crime thriller, psychological thriller[130] |
| The Killer Elite | Sam Peckinpah | James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill | United States | [131] |
| The Killer Must Kill Again | Luigi Cozzi | George Hilton | Italy | [132] |
| Nude per l'assassino | Andrea Bianchi | Femi Benussi, Edwige Fenech, Erna Schurer | Italy | [133] |
| Peur sur la ville | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli | France
Italy | [134] |
| Psychic Killer | Ray Danton | Jim Hutton, Paul Burke, Julie Adams | United States | [135] |
| The Secret Agent | Herbert Wise | Paul Rogers, Frances White, Robert Hardy, Anton Rodgers, Joyce Carey, Peter Sallis, Michael Gambon, John Cater, Vernon Dobtcheff, Bruce Purchase, Vivienne Burgess, Peter Clough, Ann Queensberry, Andree Evans and Sara Van Beers | United Kingdom | Historical drama | |
| The Snowdropper | George P. Owen | Fiona Walker, Peter Sallis, Peter Vaughan and Glyn Welden | United Kingdom | |
| The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson | United States | [136] |
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman | United States | [137] |
| The Wilby Conspiracy | Ralph Nelson | Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson | United Kingdom | [138] |
| 1976 |
| Alice, Sweet Alice | Alfred Sole | Linda G. Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula Sheppard | United States | [139] |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer, Patrick Fierry | France | [140] |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | John Carpenter | Austin Stoker, Gilbert De la Pena, Darwin Joston | United States | Action thriller[141] |
| Brotherhood of Death | Richard F. Barker, Bill Berry | Roy Jefferson, Le Tari, Haskell Anderson | United States | Action thriller[142] |
| Cadaveri Eccellenti | Francesco Rosi | Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli | Italy
France | [143] |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, William Katt, Betty Buckley | United States | Supernatural thriller[144] |
| The Cassandra Crossing | George Pan Cosmatos | Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, O. J. Simpson | United Kingdom
West Germany
Italy | [145] |
| Comme un boomerang | José Giovanni | Alain Delon, Charles Vanel, Carla Gravina | France
Italy | Crime thriller[146] |
| Le Corps de mon ennemi | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier | France | [147] |
| The Enforcer | James Fargo | Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman | United States | [148] |
| Family Plot | Alfred Hitchcock | Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane | United States | [149] |
| The House with Laughing Windows | Pupi Avati | Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano | Italy | [150] |
| Invisible Strangler | John Florea | Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Elke Sommer | United States | [151] |
| The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Nicolas Gessner | Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith | Canada
France | [152] |
| The Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg | Gus Dahlstrom, Harald Hamrell, Thomas Hellberg | Sweden | [153] |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller | United States | [154] |
| New Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | Jackie Chan | Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow | United States | [155] |
| The Omen | Richard Donner | Gregory Peck, Lee Remick | United States
United Kingdom | Supernatural thriller, horror |
| Police Python 357 | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, François Périer | France | [156] |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor | United States | [157] |
| The Tenant | Roman Polanski | Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters | France
United States | [158] |
| The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Charles B. Pierce | Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells | United States | Crime thriller[159] |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges | United States | [160] |
| 1977 |
| Anima persa | Dino Risi | Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei | France
Italy | [161] |
| Armaguedon | Alain Jessua | Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori | France
Italy | [162] |
| Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller | United States | Action thriller[163] |
| The Car | Elliot Silverstein | James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley | United States | Supernatural thriller[164] |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran | France | [165] |
| Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver | United States | science fiction thriller |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney | United States | [166] |
| Le Gang | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Roland Bertin, Nicole Calfa | France
Italy | Crime thriller[167] |
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle | United States | Action thriller[168] |
| Hitch-Hike | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Corinne Cléry, David Hess, John Loffredo | Italy | [169] |
| Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff | Yves Boisset | Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard | France
Italy | [170] |
| La Menace | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Marie Dubois, Carole Laure | France
Canada | [171] |
| Rollercoaster | James Goldstone | George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark | United States | Action thriller[172] |
| Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes | United States | Action thriller[173] |
| Sette note in nero | Lucio Fulci | Jennifer O'Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel | Italy | [174] |
| Sleeping Dogs | Roger Donaldson | Sam Neill, Bernard Kearns, Nevan Rowe | New Zealand | [175] |
| Telefon | Don Siegel | Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence | United States | Action thriller[176] |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning | West Germany
United States | [177] |
| 1978 |
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark | United Kingdom | [178] |
| The Boys From Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason | United States | [179] |
| Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Karen Black, Brenda Vaccaro | United States | [180] |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley | United States | [181] |
| Dossier 51 | Michel Deville | François Marthouret, Daniel Mesguich, Roger Planchon | France | [182] |
| The Driver | Walter Hill | Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani | United States | Crime thriller[183] |
| Enigma Rosso | Alberto Negrin | Ivan Desny, Christine Kaufmann, Fabio Testi | Italy
Spain
West Germany | [184] |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | Irvin Kershner | Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Raul Julia | United States | [185] |
| The Fury | Brian De Palma | Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving | United States | [186] |
| Good Guys Wear Black | Ted Post | Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes | United States | Action thriller[187] |
| Halloween | John Carpenter | Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis | United States | Horror |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy | United States | [188] |
| Jaws 2 | Jeannot Szwarc | Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton | United States | Horror |
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston | John Hargreaves, Briony Behet, Michael Aitkens | United States | [189] |
| Magic | Richard Attenborough | Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith | United States | [190] |
| The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick | France
United Kingdom | [191] |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar | Australia | [192] |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould | Canada | [193] |
| Solamente nero | Antonio Bido | Massimo Serato, Craig Hill, Stefania Casini | United States | [194] |
| Tendre poulet | Philippe de Broca | Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric | France | Comedy thriller[195] |
| Un papillon sur l'épaule | Jacques Deray | Lino Ventura, Nicole Garcia, Claudine Auger | France | [196] |
| 1979 |
| The Amityville Horror | Stuart Rosenberg | James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton | United States | Supernatural thriller, horror |
| Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason | United States | [197] |
| The Butterfly Murders | Tsui Hark | Lau Siu-Ming, Eddy Ko | Hong Kong | [198] |
| Les Chiens | Alain Jessua | Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu | France | [199] |
| The China Syndrome | James Bridges | Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas | United States | [200] |
| Cuba | Richard Lester | Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Héctor Elizondo | United States | Political thriller[201] |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O. J. Simpson | United Kingdom | [202] |
| The First Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down | United Kingdom | [203] |
| Flic ou voyou | Georges Lautner | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Georges Géret | France | [204] |
| I as in Icarus | Henri Verneuil | Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Roger Planchon | France | [205] |
| Last Embrace | Jonathan Demme | Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken | United States | [206] |
| When a Stranger Calls | Fred Walton | Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst | United States | [207] |
| Winter Kills | William Richert | Jeff Bridges | United States | [208] |
