Best Crime movies of 1981

Actors : Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Martin Sheen,
Directors : John Quested,

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Actors : Danièle Gégauff, Sylvie Matton, Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Éric Frey, Sandrine Kljajic, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Actors : Tomislav Gotovac, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Zoran Tadic,

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes ...

Actors : Athina Tsilyra, Yorgos Rigas, Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

George is a young and handsome man who only cares about motorcycles, discos, girls. When he realizes that he cannot go on living in poverty, he decides to rob his own father (Spiros ...

Actors : Leonard Trolley, Thomas Baptiste, Joseph Olita, Geoffrey Keen,
Directors : Sharad Patel,

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Actors : Moria Casán, Susana Giménez, Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel,
Directors : Hugo Sofovich,

In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change...

Actors : Y.G. Parthasarathy, Kamal Haasan, Radha, Madhavi,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Katja Bienert, Raquel Evans, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Betsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, caters for all wishes of her clientele with another lucrative business, the brothel "Rio Amore" ...

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, Ramón Balenziaga,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, ...

Actors : Martyn Sanderson, Tony Barry, John Hargreaves, David Hemmings,
Directors : John Laing,

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that ...

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Soad Hosny, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Samir Seif,

The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

Actors : Rick Podell, Pamela Jean Bryant, Candy Moore, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Ernest Pintoff,

Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from their competitor Mr. Schmeckler: their presence is interfering with some sort of illegal activity he's involved ...

Actors : Anant Nag, Loknath, Ramesh Bhat, Shankar Nag,
Directors : Shankar Nag,

Two small-time thieves hatch a plan to get rich. They hire an automobile mechanic, with financial troubles, to help them in stealing cars.

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Christiane Torloni, Lídia Brondi, Ney Latorraca,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado ...

Actors : Pauline Teutscher, Grazia De Giorgi, Roger Beach, Marcella Petrelli,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex through intimate relations with her father's business partner. The partner plans to use...

Actors : Aruna Irani, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Girish Karnad,
Directors : Naeem Basit,

Widower Nawab Yusuf Khan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Sultanpur, British India, along with his school-going son, Shahnawaz, and a college-going brother, Aslam, When he finds out that Aslam ...

Actors : Xun Bao, Bingjie Han, Xiong Xiao, Zhongqiu Huang,
Directors : Bin Liu,

Public Security officers investigate the robbery of a post office and the injury of a young woman.

Actors : Herbert Bautista, Hero Bautista, William Martinez, Harlene Bautista,
Directors : Antonio B. Pascua,

Filipino take on Agatha Christie's classic story about ten people stuck in a remote place, who are killed one by one by someone as punishment for their supposed crimes.