Best Crime movies of 1983

Actors : Bo Svenson, Valeria Ross, Raimund Harmstorf, Mark Gregory,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only ...

Actors : James Van Patten, Ernest Borgnine, Lynda Day George, Richard Roundtree,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ...

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

Actors : Amy Robinson, Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Jeff Winchester,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

An American engineer in London, who is helping to dismantle the London Bridge to be transported to Arizona, strikes up an acquaintanceship with a young British woman. Several years later he...

Actors : Tommy Redmond Hicks, Stuart Smith, Monty Ross, Donna Bailey,
Directors : Spike Lee,

The illegal affairs of a recently deceased barbershop owner gets passed down to his manager.

Actors : Lora Staley, Lawrence Day, Neil Dainard, Lenore Zann,
Directors : Don McBrearty,

A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.

Actors : Mel Smith, Peter Coyote, Philip Sayer, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Terry Bedford,

Thieves run over a child while escaping after a robbery. A deadly hitman who likes to taunt his targets is hired to track them down. Stone moves to England, but the assassin follows. Loosely based on Donald Westlake's cult crime novel.

Actors : Al Ruscio, Paul Shenar, Joyce Ingalls, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in ...

Actors : Professor Morono, Mark Walker, Carl Koch, Frances Raines,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

Twin sisters are implicated in a series of slasher murders. The question is, did one of them do it, did both of them do it, or did neither of them do it?

Actors : Terry-David Després, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney, Tom Nardini,

During a police strike in Nova Scotia's capital city, a gang of hoodlums end up unintentionally causing the owner of a gay bar to be killed. This escalates into a string of murders with a lone survivor trying to not be next.

Actors : Luis Hostalot, Montserrat Salvador, Assumpta Serna, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

Assumpta Serna plays a lawyer who passionately defends 'criminal scum'. Her latest defendants though have no quarrels in singling her out as their next victim. They steal her car, find keys...

Actors : Béatrice Romand, Milena Vukotic, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But ...

Actors : John Saxon, Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Nancy Wilson,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Brasseur, Gabrielle Lazure,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

Actors : Sayed Zayan, Zakaria Mouafi, Adel Imam, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Ahmed El-Sabawy,

Hassanein is a poor illiterate man who leaves his village and moves to the city to live with his maternal uncle and his family. However, he fails to keep a job and has no choice but to ...

Actors : Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Siskos, Giorgos Kyrlidis, Katiana Balanika,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Giorgos is a young man who just graduated from college. His parents are preparing a party to celebrate this occasion. George spoils the evening by appearing dressed like a woman as a ...

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Olga Mashnaya, Andrei Zykov, Valeriy Priyomykhov,
Directors : Dinara Asanova,

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

Actors : Farid Shawqi, Adel Imam, Nelly, Hatem Zolfikar,
Directors : Samir Seif,

Adel (Adel Imam) a journalist in a major newspaper, divorced. One evening in one of the pubs frequented by Nashaat al-Kashif (Hatem Zulfiqar), the son of the well-known businessman Fahmi ...

Actors : Haradhan Bannerjee, Tarun Mitra, Biplab Chatterjee, Ramesh Mukherjee,
Directors : Sandip Ray,

Mystery-drama about a botched kidnapping of a Calcutta schoolboy and his relationships and adventures.

Actors : Gerda Lindekens, Mieke Bouve, Herbert Flack, Marc Janssen,
Directors : Patrick Le Bon,

An undercover inspector of the Antwerp criminal investigation unit faces problems not only in his professional life, but also at home. When he is partnered with a young, over-confident ...