Best Crime movies of 1969

Actors : Catherine Schell, Adrienne Corri, James Olson, Warren Mitchell,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The ...

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Hugo Carvana, Othon Bastos, Odete Lara,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio ...

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Anna-Leena Mäki-Penttilä,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of...

Actors : Héctor Noguera, Marcelo Romo, Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

In 1960, José del Carmen Valenzuela Torres, from the small town of Nahueltoro in Chile, brutally murdered Rosa Rivas Acuña and her five children. This classic film of the Latin American ...

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

A paroled armed robber and his son plan a Las Vegas casino heist without knowing that the casino is bitterly contested by the West Coast and East Coast mobs.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Gray, Edward Woodward, John Barrie,
Directors : Sam Wanamaker,

U.S. Agent Novak and Scotland Yard Officer Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a counterfeit organization.

Actors : Miki Hayashi, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Atsushi Yamatoya, Eri Ashikawa,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

A bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.

Actors : Pier Paolo Capponi, Marzio Margine, Renato Lupi, Nieves Navarro,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Some youngsters kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.

Actors : Folco Lulli, Margarita Lozano, Sidonia Manolache, Paul Misai,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband

Actors : Gene Hackman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Mike Kellin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Nanda, Bindu, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.

Actors : John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser,
Directors : John Huston,

The humorous adventures of the notorious Scottish highwayman and thief Davey Haggart during the 1820s in Britain.

Actors : Norma Bengell, Maria Gladys, Hugo Carvana, Neville de Almeida,
Directors : Júlio Bressane,

Urtiga and Santamaria are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. They escape from the police siege in a slum in a hill ...

Actors : Charles McGraw, Richard Kiley, Jean Seberg, George Peppard,
Directors : George Schaefer,

When police captain Frank Matthews is accused of murdering his adulterous wife and her lover he avoids arrest and sets out to find the killer.

Actors : Yuri Gusev, Aleksei Yakovlev, Nikolai Timofeyev, Nikolai Gritsenko,
Directors : Nikolai Rozantsev,

A spy is detected and followed in Leningrad.

Actors : Tatyana Pelttser, Lidiya Smirnova, Mikhail Zharov, Roman Tkachuk,
Directors : Ivan Lukinsky,

Dervenskiy detektiv (1968) (aka...Rural detective) is based on the eponymous book by Vil Lipatov. About the detective Aniskin, who lives in the village, where everyone likes him.

Actors : Claudio Camaso, Helga Anders, Marianne Koch, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

The characters engage in a séance at a mansion while a storm rages outside. During their stay, the film uses an extensive flashback structure to reveal the various criminal acts that each have perpetrated.

Actors : Reiko Ônobuta, Junko Miyazono, Kô Nishimura, Kenji Imai,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

Actors : Marcelino Yanahuaya, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet, Benedicta Mendoza,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.