Best Crime movies of 1980

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Robert Sacchi, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero,
Directors : Robert Day,

A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of ...

Actors : Albert Au, Tin Sang Lung, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

Actors : Ian Scott, James Johnson, Jerry McGee, Judith-Marie Bergan,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.

Actors : Eiko Nagashima, Lautaro Murúa, Silvia Aguilar, Paul Naschy,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese ...

Actors : Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Nerina Montagnani,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Il maresciallo Nico Giraldi aspetta il suo primo figlio ed è in vacanza con la moglie e la nonna di lei, sorda, ma esperta levatrice. Ma l'imprevisto è in agguato e Nico viene richiamato in...

Actors : André Falcon, Philippe Noiret, Dorothée, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

For inspector Baroni,Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife.

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Jaime Garza, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Aruna Irani, Poonam Dhillon, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

Anand lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay in a palatial house, and runs a business 'Export India'. While shopping at Roopsagar Clothing Store, he meets one of the Sales Clerks', Sharda, and...

Actors : K. Balaji, Surulirajan, Rajinikanth, Sridevi,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A parsimonious Barbar must flee from the Police after meeting with a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Mário Viegas, Lima Duarte, Luís Lello, Lia Gama,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the ...

Actors : Dave Galluzzo, Chip Greenman, Rich Pemberton, Rick Styles,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A rock band called "The Clowns" comes under suspicion of murder when several prostitutes are killed by individuals made up like members of the band.

Actors : Franco Nero, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses...

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Berta Cabré, Bernard Seray, Isabel Mestres, Ángel Fernández Franco,
Directors : José Antonio de la Loma,

Actors : Robby Benson, Elsa Lanchester, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A San Francisco cab driver finds himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased all over town by people trying to get the formula.

Actors : Juan Valentín, Juan Gallardo, Princesa Lea, Ana Luisa Peluffo,
Directors : Francisco Guerrero,

Actors : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Max Gail, Michael Paul Chan,
Directors : Murray Mintz,

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a ...

Actors : Ivan Desny, Bernd Stephan, Hans Beerhenke, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Wigbert Wicker,

Actors : Raj Babbar, Padmini Kolhapure, Deepak Parashar, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

After the passing of multi-millionaire Ramlal Gupta, his only son and heir, Ramesh, takes over the estate and business. He attends a Beauty Contest sponsored by Vimal Fabrics, and is ...

Actors : Patrice Townsend, Irene Cagen, Zack Norman, Michael Emil,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for ...