Best Crime movies of 1966

Actors : Jirina Petrovická, Bohumil Smída, Karel Höger, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Jaroslav Mach,

At the Ronov castle, the archive-keeper professor Nykl (Milos Nedbal) is searching for the lost painting The Naked Shepherdess by the famous Fragonard. Nykl is just about to disassemble the...

Actors : Daniel Gélin, Valentina Cortese, Denise Vernac, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

A young girl goes to Africa to find her lost brother living among sordid people but finds true love with a disqualified pilot.

Actors : Jess Hahn, Jean Yanne, Jean Marais, Danièle Evenou,
Directors : Christian-Jaque,

Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are ...

Actors : Vlasta Kabelíková, Frantisek Krahulik, Zora Bozinová, Jaroslav Dufek,
Directors : Stepán Skalský,

Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.

Actors : Izzet Günay, Necdet Tosun, Selma Güneri, Öztürk Serengil,
Directors : Türker Inanoglu,

Osman a handsome cab driver, is in love with Selma who works at a gas station. They have not yet revealed their feelings to each other. Selma wants to become a theater actress. Osman is the...

Actors : José Bódalo, Alicia Brandet, Rod Dana, John Stacy,
Directors : Mino Guerrini,

Lester of the UK Secret Service follows a lead, from a rigged boxing match to Mr. King, a German scientist who is using his power and special knowledges to rebuild a Nazi regime and the world take-over.

Actors : Deven Verma, Shashikala, Sharmila Tagore, Dharmendra,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

A wealthy male starts to self-destruct after he finds that his childhood sweetheart is now his sister-in-law.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Karin Dor, Rupert Davies, Stewart Granger,
Directors : Manfred R. Köhler,

A secret agent battles a secret brainwashing organisation.

Actors : Larry Carr, Sadi Cabral, Yolanda Cardoso, Jece Valadão,
Directors : Victor Lima,

True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where he starts remembering episodes of his criminal life.

Actors : José Luis de Vilallonga, Robert Webber, Franco Nero, Cec Linder,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him demands that Harris "erase" an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first...

Actors : Stephen Forsyth, Mitsouko, Jack Ary, Dominique Boschero,

An American CIA agent must find the whereabouts of Top Secret microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.

Actors : António Wong, Araújo, Marik Martin, Lok Van To,
Directors : Miguel Spiguel,

Three sketches: O Importador de Ópio (the import trader of opium); Doca de Patane (Patane docks); Mayana (Mayana). Macau's crime squad raids some suspect places to stop the import and ...

Actors : Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Mehmood, Keshto Mukherjee,
Directors : Salil Choudhury,

Businessman Sonu Sharma belongs to a wealthy family and lives with his widowed mother. He suddenly becomes ill, is hospitalized and looked after by a young nurse, Heena, who he falls in ...

Actors : Gösta Ekman, Christina Schollin, Gunnel Lindblom, Rune Lindström,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago. Per and his mother have for a long time had an incestuous relationship. But ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Kôji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kiyoshi Saeki,

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Actors : Tina Hutchence, Mai Tai Sing, Jeffrey Hunter, Christina Stone,
Directors : Jeffrey Stone,

Lost film about American expatriate in Hong Kong, who finds out that the late husband of an unhinged, rich, local woman looks exactly like him, so he tries to convince her that he really is him in order to get to her jewelry.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-José Nat, Hellmut Lange, Horst Frank,
Directors : Michel Drach,

Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he becomes the unwilling accomplice of jewel thieves and falls in love with Electre, the ...

Actors : Leonardo Villar, Anecy Rocha, Joel Barcellos, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.

Actors : Hideki Takahashi, Michiko Saga, Kotohide Hatsui, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

While the first two pictures are serious action dramas, this film is basically a ninkyô action/comedy.

Actors : Veronica Hurst, Phil Brown, Tim Barrett, Fraser MacIntosh,
Directors : George P. Breakston,

A young boy with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder.