Best Crime movies of 1989

Actors : Kathy Shower, Tom Badal, Sydney Lassick, Robert Ginty,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.

Actors : Rekha, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Dharmendra, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

The wounded serpent (Rekha) seeks revenge on her husband's killers.

Actors : Aleksandr Abdulov, Irina Shmeleva, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Elena Tsyplakova,
Directors : Anatoly Eyramdzhan,

Actors : Jayamalini, Bhanupriya, Satyanarayana Kaikala, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : Gopal B.,

The story of aspiring police officer, Prithviraj, who lives a poor lifestyle with his widowed mother; loves Radha, his neighbor, who is employed as the Secretary in the Police Department. ...

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, William Smith, Jean Levine, Jastereo Coviare,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

Vice detective Jon Chance (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) is in search of a millionaire's daughter and her boyfriend...kidnapped for an unreasonable ransom. With his trustworthy captain (William ...

Actors : Wilson Lam, Maggie Cheung, Pak-Cheung Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng,
Directors : Jing Wong,

Nurse Liang Shanbo (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) and Actress Zhu Yingtai (Maggie Cheung) are mismatched cousins who just inherited a rental home from their late relative. When they moved in, they ...

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Nutan,
Directors : Gopal B.,

An Indian government official tries to remain loyal to his job and the state when his career is threatened by a criminal cartel who plan on ruining him as well as his son whom deals with the hoodlums in his own way of justice.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raza Murad, Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Bhrastachar tells the story of a disparate group of characters whose lives overlap- Bhavani, a journalist fighting injustice and corruption; Janki a widow who becomes the mistress of local ...

Actors : Min Zhou, Xiaoning Liu, Lili Ge, Junyi Shen,
Directors : Zhou Sun,

A boy is kidnapped but it is a case of mistaken identity.

Actors : Sonam, Chunky Pandey, Kimi Katkar, Shatrughan Sinha,
Directors : David Dhawan,

Inspector Mahendra Nath lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay along with his wife, and son, Vijay. He is honest and diligent which brings him in the bad books of Davar, who initially ...

Actors : Sudha Chopra, Ratna Bhooshan, Mohan Gokhale, Vijayendra Ghatge,
Directors : Jyoti Sarup,

Police Inspector Navin, assigned to Santa Cruz Police Station in Bombay, gets a telephone call from a distraught woman, Aparna, that someone had attempted to kill her, but upon being ...

Actors : Jane Gurnett, Ulrich Wildgruber, Jeroen Krabbé, Susannah York,
Directors : Andi Engel,

Art critic Keller was once part of a far-left radical group. They contact him again 10 years later and ask him to assassinate a Chilean doctor and war criminal, who's visiting London, but Keller has lost his ideals and feels conflicted.

Actors : Andy Lau, Ken Boyle, Siu Chung Mok, Elizabeth Lee,
Directors : Michael Mak,

Michal Mak's second sequel to his brother's action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.

Actors : Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Mike Watt, Michael Hecht,
Directors : Raymond Pettibon,

A strange spoof in the worst taste imaginable, renowned artist Raymond Pettibon studies the interpersonal relationships among a group of urban middle-class terrorists in the early Seventies.

Actors : Kam Bun, An An, Pui-Kei Chan, Yuen Hung,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Three female cops are after a ganglord and try to protect their main witness

Actors : Yashwant Dutt, Shakti Kapoor, Govinda, Kim,
Directors : Vinod K. Verma,

Twins Hari and Om are separated at birth. Years later, they get into trouble due to mistaken identities and have people running after them.