| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1970 |
| The Butcher |
Claude Chabrol |
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne |
  |
Psychological thriller |
| Le Cercle rouge |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand |
|
Crime thriller |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
Billy Wilder |
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl |
  |
Comedy thriller |
| 1971 |
| Dirty Harry |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni |
|
Action thriller |
| Duel |
Steven Spielberg |
Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Play Misty for Me |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Straw Dogs |
Sam Peckinpah |
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Vanishing Point |
Richard C. Sarafian |
|
|
Action thriller |
| 1972 |
| Frenzy |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Jon Finch, Barry Foster |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Un flic |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna |
|
Crime 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 |
|
|
| Sleuth |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1973 |
| 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 |
| 1974 |
| The Conversation |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Gene Hackman, John Cazale |
|
Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| The Parallax View |
Alan J. Pakula |
Warren Beatty |
|
Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| 1975 |
| Deep Red |
Dario Argento |
David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia |
|
Psychological thriller |
| French Connection II |
John Frankenheimer |
|
|
Action thriller]] |
| Jaws |
Steven Spielberg |
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss |
|
|
| Three Days of the Condor |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway |
|
Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| 1976 |
| Assault on Precinct 13 |
John Carpenter |
|
|
Action thriller |
| Cadaveri Eccellenti |
Francesco Rosi |
Lino Ventura |
|
Political thriller, Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| Carrie |
Brian De Palma |
Sissy Spacek |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| 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 |
| 1977 |
| The Gauntlet |
Clint Eastwood |
|
|
Action thriller |
| 1978 |
| The Boys From Brazil |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason |
|
Political thriller |
| Magic |
Richard Attenborough |
Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith |
|
Psychoglogical thriller |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Philip Kaufman |
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy |
|
|
| 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 |
