Best Crime movies of 1978

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hisashi Igawa, Ryûdô Uzaki, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Neetu Singh,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A young man fights spies to defend his country.

Actors : Saeed Rad, Candy Bergen,
Directors : Amir Naderi,

Ali is a young boxer who is going to America to pursue his dream of becoming a champion, but very soon is trapped by a gangster mob. He get involved with them agreeing to follow their ...

Actors : Janet Agren, Chris Avram, Ettore Manni, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

Comissioneer Mariani leads investigates a group of kidnappers.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Abhi Bhattacharya, Shreeram Lagoo, Gayatri,
Directors : R. Thyagaraajan,

Orphaned Bijli works on a farm owned by widowed, wealthy and arrogant Avinash Rai. She has no one to call her own save and except for her pet goat, Ramu, who often comes to protect her from...

Actors : Gunnel Fred, Richard Warwick, Helmut Griem, Slobodan Dimitrijevic,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

While living in a Spanish fishing village, a German painter kills a fisherman in revenge, ostensibly... See full synopsis »

Actors : Bhavana Bhatt, Danny Denzongpa, Major Anand, Leena Das,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Mahesh Chopra lives a middle-classed lifestyle with his Government-employee dad, and mom, Shanti, in Government quarters in Bombay. Here he is enrolled in an Arts college, and is in love ...

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Randhir Kapoor, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Sadanah,

The theft of Devi Maa's statuette jeopardizes the lives of a noble family.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Joginder Shelly,
Directors : Satpal,

Ram Kumar Verma is an honest albeit unsuccessful Insurance Agent. His poor performance and a quick settlement for Renu and her mom gets him transferred to Madhya Pradesh. During the train ...

Actors : Edgard Franco, Clayton Silva, Novani Novakoski, Ewerton de Castro,
Directors : Antonio Bonacin Thome,

Marta and Rodrigo have just got married and arrive home for the honeymoon. However, a gang led by the sadistic Carlos breaks in their house and three thieves rape Marta. However, one of ...

Actors : Frank Whiteman, Meredith MacRae, Clayton Wilcox, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Paul Leder,

An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...

Actors : Marco Gelardini, Italo Gasperini, Eleonora Giorgi, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Gianni Crea,

Two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them. The ...

Actors : Mircea Albulescu, Aura Andritoiu, Ion Anghel, Aurelian Banica,
Directors : Virgil Calotescu,

In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.

Actors : Clara Colosimo, Claudia Cardinale, Benedetta Fantoli, Stefano Satta Flores,

In un caseggiato tre ladruncoli vengono scoperti e viene chiamata la polizia ed uno dei tre viene ucciso da un poliziotto. Luigi, che vive là con la moglie Marta e la figlia Rossana assiste...

Actors : Henryk Bista, Miroslaw Konarowski, Piotr Lysak, Tomasz Zaliwski,
Directors : Tadeusz Chmielewski,

A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi, Chiezô Kataoka,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Actors : Ichirô Araki, Yûsaku Matsuda, Keiko Tasaka, Asao Uchida,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Hitman Narumi is asked to rescue a kidnapped businessman who is involved in an air defense project. Narumi nearly succeeds but a stray shot kills the hostage. Nevertheless the person who hired Narumi now has another mission for him.

Actors : Andrea Camargo, Cláudio Cunha, Sonia Garcia, Sérgio Hingst,
Directors : Roberto Mauro,

When the hooker Rosely is stabbed seven times in the Boca do Lixo, her costumer Manoel is accused of the murder. However, the defense lawyer Gabriel Reis defends Manoel that is released ...

Actors : Anne Marie Pohtamo, Åke Lindman, Bruno O'Ya, Kate O'Mara,
Directors : Lars G. Thelestam,

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruna and Karen make sure that it pays off.

Actors : Ramesh Deo, Sachin, Sarika, Nutan,
Directors : Kishore Khanna,

A mansion's new owner deals with the mystery surrounding it, as well as it's previous owner's wife.