Best Crime movies of 1983

Actors : Richard Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Kemal Sunal, Nazan Saatçi, Ali Sen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.

Actors : John Vernon, Tamara Dobson, Linda Blair, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Virgil Frye, Keith Vitali, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds...

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Christophe Odent,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them ...

Actors : Richard Bright, Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : William Lustig,

Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a ...

Actors : Tetsurô Sagawa, Kôsei Tomita, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita,
Directors : Osamu Dezaki,

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an assassin-for-hire becomes the target of American soldiers and superhuman killers.

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never ...

Actors : Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Carlos Sotto Mayor, Pierre Vernier, Henry Silva, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.

Actors : Markku Toikka, Esko Nikkari, Aino Seppo, Hannu Lauri,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Margherita Fumero, Tomas Milian, Marc Lawrence,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

L.A.P.D. Captain Parker finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma, bad copy of a Latin lover....

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : John Schneider, Kirk Douglas, Lisa Dunsheath, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

Actors : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Lisa Kreuzer, Roland Bertin, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Actors : François Périer, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Cesare Ferretti, Roberto Stani, Michela Mioni, Enzo Di Benedetto,
Directors : Claudio Caligari,

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.

Actors : Nicole Garcia, John Lydon, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Mann,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City flat.

Actors : Béatrix Van Til, Claudia Cardinale, Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : José Giovanni,