Best Crime movies of 1998

Actors : Félix Fontoura, Edson Silva, Nuria Madruga, Milton Spencer,
Directors : Leonel Vieira,

Tó is a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, and falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams to live in Angola, where his parents were born, however the reality the two teens are in makes everything complicated.

Actors : Vlatka Simac, Roeland Fernhout, Nicole Eggert, Hugo Metsers,
Directors : Robert Jan Westdijk,

Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Their goal is to spend the money together on a world trip and their scam ...

Actors : Mickey Curtis, Seiichi Tanabe, Saori Sekino, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for ...

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Chris Rea, John Cleese, Felicity Kendal,
Directors : Michael Winner,

After learning he is dying from cancer an failed photographer illegally buys a pistol and decides to go vigilante and get his revenge on all those who have made his life a misery.

Actors : Dina Korzun, Nikita Tyunin, Maksim Sukhanov, Chulpan Khamatova,
Directors : Valeriy Todorovskiy,

Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.

Actors : Leon Lai, Fiona Leung, YoYo Mung, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Johnnie To,

Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, ...

Actors : Kevin Gage, William Petersen, Diane Lane, Michael Wincott,
Directors : Jeff Celentano,

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time ...

Actors : Barbara Williams, R.H. Thomson, Rutger Hauer, Joseph Kell,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

A pathologist's book about his work is a good recipe for sick people.

Actors : Damon Jones, Aimee Chaffin, Dave Oren Ward, Davidlee Willson,
Directors : Randolph Kret,

An interracial couple is attacked and the woman is gang-raped in a random attack. This prompts the woman to commit suicide and the man decides to seek revenge from the inside by joining the...

Actors : Chihara Junia, Akaji Maro, Onimaru, Rin Ozawa,
Directors : Toshiaki Toyoda,

A young man gets off the train in the morning and wanders the business districts aimlessly. He runs across some yakuza gangsters, whom he despises, and goes on a killing spree, but soon becomes involved with a subordinate gang.

Actors : Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Stéphane Boucher, Julie Delarme,
Directors : Guillaume Nicloux,

A private investigator (nicknamed Octopus after his long arms) travels to the small town of Angernaud with his bisexual girlfriend to collect the money he spent for the reconstruction of ...

Actors : Damon Saleem, Bokeem Woodbine, Cynda Williams, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Darin Scott,

She caught his eye. He was caught off guard. Now Daryl Allen is caught in the line of fire. After six years behind bars, a reformed street hood(Bokeem Woodbine) puts down his gun and ...

Actors : Zoé Félix, Benoît Magimel, Romain Duris, Clément Sibony,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

An ambitious young woman meets a group of affluent and feckless guys and together they plan to break into the pornographic industry with her as their star.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Laure Marsac, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Sandrine Bonnaire,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.

Actors : Daniel Edwards, Richard Schiff, Martin Donovan, Joanna Going,
Directors : Scott Reynolds,

A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual ...

Actors : Sharjil Arshed, Mickael Marman, Maikel Andressen Abou-Zelof, Jalal Zahedjekta,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

Jonas and Emir are members of a criminal gang of 14-15 year-olds in Oslo. Emir has slight brain-damage after being beaten by his father as a 5-year-old, and Jonas' biggest problem is ...

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, David Williamson, George Shane,
Directors : Marc Evans,

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and ...

Actors : Pooja Bhatt, Akshay Kumar, Sonali Bendre, Nagarjuna Akkineni,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Bangalore-based Police Inspector Amar, a reformed juvenile, convicted for knifing a male, is approached by Mumbai's Police Commissioner Vinod Talwar, and assigned the task of locating the ...

Actors : Ruby Wong, Simon Yam, YoYo Mung, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Tat-Chi Yau,

A group of inept Mainland criminals botch a jewelry store robbery. The cops, led by the straight-laced Ken and the wise-cracking Sam, begin to investigate the case and quickly confuse the ...

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, John Kapelos, John Lithgow,
Directors : John Raffo,

Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. Is Johnny the next on the ...