Best Crime movies of 1979

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 : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Serge Avedikian, Michelle Marquais,
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 : 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 : 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 : Geoffrey Lewis, Linda Haynes, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

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

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

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 : 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 : Sonia Garcia, Francisco Cavalcanti, Joana de Oliveira, Lirio Bertelli,
Directors : Francisco Cavalcanti,

In 1947, the peasant Jones and his four year-old son Julinho are executed by Jarbas and the other five brothers of his wife Martha that do not accept the marriage of their sister with a ...

Actors : Patrice Valota, Jacques Bouanich, Robert Hoffmann, Carole Chauvet,
Directors : Eddy Matalon,

The crime squad follows a track that leads to a Morrocan drug and prostitution ring. They end up involved into an international school to form a mercenary army for non democratic ...

Actors : Nora Miao, Lun Chia, Wai-Man Chan, Pauline Yu-Huan Wang,
Directors : Wu Ma,

Handcuff is a biographical film about the life of Hong Kong Gangster Chen Hui Man. In the film, Chan wants to quit the triads and retire to Europe but the dons have other ideas.

Actors : Paola Senatore, Richard Harrison, Marisa Laurito, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Mario Bianchi,

Montano's corpse is found after being kidnapped by Maurice. The police think then to use the same ways criminals use and to infiltrate Tony Lo Bianco in the gang. Tony is a former FBI agent...

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Alexandra Gasnárková, Drahomíra Hofmanová, Vilém Besser,
Directors : Petr Schulhoff,

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man...

Actors : Elio Zamuto, Mario Merola, Biagio Pelligra, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.

Actors : Min-Yi Huang, Ya Ying Liu, Yat Fan Lau, Wai-Man Chan,
Directors : Shen Liang,

When Wang Chung decides to leave his life of crime, his boss won't let him go, so he commits a series of heinous killings, and fabricates evidence, suggesting Wang is the murderer. Wang ...

Actors : Mario Almada, Roger Cudney, Fernando Almada, Ursula Prats,
Directors : Rubén Galindo,

Two detective brothers look for the criminals who killed their brother, as they catch drug dealers and interrogate thugs in the name of the law.

Actors : John Ireland, Richard Lynch, Stuart Whitman, Richard Jaeckel,

Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.

Actors : Lyubov Virolaynen, Nikolay Penkov, Mikhail Golubovich, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Olgerd Vorontsov,

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse... See full synopsis »

Actors : Brigitte Lahaie, Muriel Montossé, Sandra Flower, Marcel Charvey,
Directors : Jean-Claude Roy,

Juliette (Brigitte Lahaie), an an ex-prostitute whose twin passions in life are men and money. When she isn't indulging in steamy sex sessions, Juliette and her lover Chris plan to ...