Crime Movies of 1975

Hustle

Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) re-unites with Burt Reynolds for this hard-edged neo-noir. Lieutenant Phil Gaines (Reynolds) is a cynical Los Angeles police detective amorously involved with an icewater-veined Parisian call girl, ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Dog Day Afternoon

Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before closing time, scheming loser Sonny (Al Pacino) and his ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

The Yakuza

Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

The Four Deuces

TThough barely released to theaters, the tongue-in-cheek ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

The Maids

Directed by Christopher Miles, The Maids is a 1974 film version of the play by French absurdist writer Jean Genet. Solange (Glenda Jackson) and Claire (Susannah York) are two sisters who work as servants for a strict Madame (Vivian ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Crazy Mama

Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Mission to Kill

Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los Immorales. The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Shining Star

This cult favorite from director/producer Sig Shore featured ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Atlantic City Jackpot

A young thug needs money, so he visits his girlfriend while she's baby-sitting. While there, he plans to tie up the girl, kidnap the child, and hold him for ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Revolver

The luridly titled Italian/French/German thriller Blood in the Streets went into production under the more restrained cognomen The Revolver. Oliver Reed ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

Death Scream

The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based (like High Plains Drifter) on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]

The Switchblade Sisters

Exploitation auteur Jack Hill wrote and directed this wild, often satiric girl-gang movie, whose story is loosely (make that very, ... [ Crime movie - 1975 ]