Best Crime movies of 1979

Actors : Donald Jones, Rutger Hauer, Rijk de Gooyer, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Wim Verstappen,

When a hanged man is found, the question is whether it is suicide or murder. Possible suspects are available; the world of drugs and a suspecious sect...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Francis Huster,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Actors : David Niven, Oliver Tobias, Elke Sommer, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Pinky is released from prison and has decided to go straight from now on, but accidentally getting himself a job as a maintenance man at a large bank, gives him a lot of undue attention ...

Actors : Jennifer Warren, Terrayne Crawford, Robert De Niro, Jarred Mickey,
Directors : Jordan Leondopoulos,

Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.

Actors : Pierre Agostino, Chuck Alford, Carolyn Brandt, Jim Parker,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

Hollywood Strangler ("Johnathan Click") kills young models... Skid Row Slasher kills winos ... What will happen when they meet?

Actors : Van Johnson, Mario Merola, Biagio Pelligra, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Italian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his ...

Actors : Kristine DeBell, Wally Ann Wharton, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A bus-load containing three cheer-leading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

Actors : Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon, Clémentine Amouroux, Gerald Battiaz,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to ...

Actors : Hollis McLaren, Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Au Canada, un jeune homme, passeur d'émigrés clandestins vers les Etats-Unis, tue l'un de ses clients pour lui dérober une valise pleine de dollars. Il s'enfuit à bord d'un véhicule conduit...

Actors : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Michelle Marquais, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Michel Drach,

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of ...

Actors : Angélica Chain, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Linda Haynes, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert, Georges Staquet, Claude Rich,
Directors : Robin Davis,

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell,
Directors : Ross Hagen,

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

Actors : Mimi Coutelier, Jean Yanne, The Village People, Ritchie Family,
Directors : Jean Yanne,

Actors : Ian McShane, Stephen Greif, Warren Clarke, Christopher Malcolm,
Directors : Francis Megahy,

A group of fascists plan to finance their work by pulling off a bank robbery.

Actors : Paul Mazursky, Allan Kolman, Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Noel Black,

The two least likely bank robbers in the known universe plan and execute... kind of... the ultimate heist.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Alvaro Vitali, Marzio Honorato, Franco Diogene,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The adventures of Gianna, a sexy police woman (E Fenech) who wants to help a child in the search of his mother, who has ended up in trouble. She has become a prostitute and is kept prisoner...

Actors : Datta Bhatt, Satish Dubhashi, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

When Chief Minister of Maharashtra gets an anonymous call to warn him against possible rebellion in his party, all is not well. The current government is being questioned by opposition on a...

Actors : Alberto Farnese, Marina Ripa di Meana, Roberta Manfredi, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had ...