Best Crime movies of 1979

Actors : Neetu Singh, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an expert gambler, and has been so as long as he can remember, and has never lost a game. These skills bring him to the attention of the underworld don Saxena (...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Ünsal Emre, Güngör Bayrak, Aldo Canti,
Directors : Italo Martinenghi,

The German professor tries out his time machine in Turkey. Everybody is after this new invention - Superman Detective Murat, his cheating colleagues Atak and Matrak as well as the mob ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, David Niven, 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 : Antonella Antinori, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Mario Cutini, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

A reporter and his girlfriend investigate deaths surrounding a hotel where several prominent people go to have sex.

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Mikio Narita, Kei Satô, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the ...

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Renato Pozzetto, Olga Karlatos, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Deep Roy, Maribel Martín, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

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

Actors : Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol, Suzanna Love, Jack Palance,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf ...

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

Actors : Seema, Mustafa Qureshi, Sultan Rahi, Aasia,
Directors : Yunus Malik,

Maula Jat tells the true story of it's eponymous hero's blood feud with the local "gunda" Nuri Nath.

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Cosie Costa, Ray Milland, Peter Graves,
Directors : Larry Spiegel,

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer ...

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 ...