Best Crime movies of 1988

Actors : Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Amala Akkineni, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

The story of Dayavan, a benevolent gangster who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate then himself.

Actors : Matthew Wong, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Joey Wang, Waise Lee,

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of ...

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Nobuko Miyamoto, Tetsurô Tanba, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Amala Akkineni, Bahadur, Anand,
Directors : Suresh Krishna,

Sathya (Kamal Hassan) is a young man who wants to make a difference and ends up becoming a henchman to a political leader who has his own agenda.

Actors : François Négret, Raffaella Baracchi, Giancarlo Giannini, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

A disbarred lawyer (Giancarlo Giannini) is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo (Philippe Léotard). Escorting prostitute Milena (Raffaella Baracchi) impregnated by Sapo to an ...

Actors : Marco Merlo, Pio Maria Federici, Fabrizio Merlo, May Deseligny,
Directors : Antonio Climati,

Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Salah Abdallah,
Directors : Atef E-Taieb,

After his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.

Actors : Simon Yam, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Jacky Cheung, Man-Tat Ng,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A team of cops get brutally exposed to violence after raiding a drug operation and discovering a link between few members of the police force and an American crime syndicate dealing with drug trafficking.

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ...

Actors : Anna Samokhina, Boris Shcherbakov, Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Steklov,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raj Kiran, Neelam Kothari, Govinda,
Directors : Kirti Kumar,

Hatya is an experience. Through the eyes of a child. A spine-chilling musical thriller, the film is about the turmoil of a deaf and dumb child, who witnesses a murder along with his mother,...

Actors : Ricki Rasmussen, Tania Frydenberg, Nanna Bøndergaard, Ken Vedsegaard,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

4 Danish kids find a cookie jar filled with cash while playing in the woods. They decide to keep the money, at least until a reward is offered. But the crooks want "their" money back and will do whatever necessary to accomplish this.

Actors : Etienne Chicot, Martin Lamotte, André Dussollier, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Élisabeth Rappeneau,

Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station.She got a raw deal when she was a child.

Actors : Julianne Phillips, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Tiny Ron,
Directors : Beau Bridges,

A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.

Actors : Robert Z'Dar, Harold Diamond, Joselito Rescober, Jim Brown,
Directors : Amir Shervan,

Walking jawline Tony Stone (Robert D'Zar), is a tough criminal with questionable recruitment criteria for his henchmen. After he and his goons pull off a heist at a surprisingly ...

Actors : Colin Dale, Dursley McLinden, Saeed Jaffrey, José René Ruiz,
Directors : Stephen Bayly,

When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his ...

Actors : John Patrick Stenman, Robert Jelinek, Lena Nilsson, Pia Green,
Directors : Thomas Samuelsson,

Two boys and a girl spend their last summer holiday biking on an island. But the holdiay doesn't turn out to be as they expected. A movie about teenagers growing up and the problems ...

Actors : Shane Briant, Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters,
Directors : Mark Joffe,

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Mathieu Carrière, Vicky Peña,
Directors : Félix Rotaeta,