Best Crime movies of 1983

Actors : Richard Harrison, Don Gordon Bell, Bruce Baron, Philip Gamboa,
Directors : Teddy Page,

"Hunter's crossing" is about a mercenary (Bruce Baron as Al Hunter) trying to rescue a millionnaire's son raptured by Filipino pirates.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ann Lange, Daniel Buccos, Michael Murphy,

Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy ...

Actors : Emi Shindô, Wai-Man Chan, Kaoru Oda, Kenneth Tsang,

This film is one of Hitchcock's finest

Actors : Efi Mavridi, Liana Thanou, Giorgos Mataragas, Nikos Tsachiridis,
Directors : Giorgos Mylonas,

A young girl is forced by her father to become a nun. But soon she finds out that dark secrets are hiding behind the convent walls and that she's there to serve lustful human masters and not God.

Actors : Sebastião Grandim, Fabricio Cavalcanti, Norberto Fayon, Francisco Cavalcanti,
Directors : Francisco Cavalcanti,

Man kidnaps the daughter of the man who raped and killed his mother.

Actors : Jocelyne Boisseau, Michaela Feldmeier, Konrad Georg, Angelica Domröse,
Directors : Manfred Purzer,

Girls in a reform school are tormented violently by the headmistress . . . until they can take no more

Actors : Kumiko Ohba, Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.

Actors : Giannis Kandilas, Manos Koutsourelis, Alkis Panagiotidis, Antigoni Amanitou,
Directors : Vangelis Serdaris,

A young man who only cares about his motorcycle. One day, the motorcycle is stollen and his starts a deadly hunt in order to find it. He meets a beautiful woman who immediately falls in ...

Actors : Ranjit Sood, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Parveen Babi, Ajit,
Directors : Harmesh Malhotra,

Abused by his step-mother; Rajmer, Jaipur-based young Mangal faces more trauma when his father Havaldar Rajnath Pandey is shot dead by Daku Lal Singh. He then gets separated from his sister...

Actors : Horst Janson, Olivia Pascal, Harald Dietl, Klaus Konczak,
Directors : Alexander Titus Benda,

A successful writer of crime stories, is missing and searching a special, antique bed which used to be his source of inspiration.

Actors : Amjad Khan, Parveen Babi, Shatrughan Sinha, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Amjad Khan,

Inspector Sunil Rana (Shatrughan Sinha) has been assigned the case of triple-homicide of the Sinha family, namely Mr. Sinha (Ashok Kumar); his son Inspector Rohan (Vinod Mehra), and Rohan's...

Actors : Stephanie Grant, Britt Ekland, Patricia Moffatt, Jack Messinger,
Directors : Jack Nixon-Browne,

A man falls for his nubile stepdaughter. When his hot wife founds out about this, she is furious. Murder ensues. It's obvious who's the guilty party. Or is it?

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Silvia Montanari, Rodolfo Ranni, Julio De Grazia,
Directors : Juan Carlos Desanzo,

When the new don discovers that sadistic mobsters were responsible for the death of his young son, he wreaks a deadly revenge.

Actors : Ruy Leal, Vilma Camargo, Francisco Cavalcanti, Joana de Oliveira,
Directors : Francisco Cavalcanti,

Shoeblack keeps the money of two rival gangs.

Actors : Chhagan Bhujbal, Mukund Chitale, Master Makrand Bapat, Kamini Bhatia,
Directors : Govind Kulkarni,

After their mother passes away, twins, Prasad and Anu, are separated and their father, Ramji Desai, is rendered homeless. Prasad is brought up by a couple whose daughter was abducted and ...

Actors : Sofia Aliberti, Panos Mihalopoulos, Kaiti Finou, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Panos comes to Athens in search for a better life. He is fed up with life in the countryside, unemployment and the whole situation with his family. He hooks up with a bunch of ambitious- ...

Actors : Ron Haddrick, Earle Cross, Lynn Rainbow, Peter O'Toole,

When a woman receives a message apparently from the sender of a series of valuable pearls after the disappearance of her father, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Actors : Meng Lo, Siu-Ho Chin, Bill Tung, Leung Chan,
Directors : Hsia Hsu,

One of three collaborative thieves is imprisoned and the other two always get stuck without their friend. When the imprisoned one is released, they reunited to give full play to their talents.

Actors : Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Florinda Meza, Edgar Vivar, Rubén Aguirre,
Directors : Roberto Gómez Bolaños,

Two rival gangs of robbers exist in Mexico city. One band is directed by the gangster Rufino Rufian, whose orders are monitored by his mother. The other band is guided by Kilos, a fat man ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Ambrish Sangal,

Raju is a second-generation American-Indian who lives with his mother, Shobha, and resents his father for having an illicit affair with a married East Indian woman, Rita, as well as his ...