Best Crime movies of 1979

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Clint Eastwood, Jack Thibeau, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

Actors : Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Alan Arkin, Peter Falk,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

Actors : John Blundell, Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.

Actors : Vincent Spano, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Carol Kane, Carmen Argenziano, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Maurice Risch, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people,...

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Ken Ogata, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.

Actors : George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bagot, Roland Amstutz, Michel Albertini, Yves Montand,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Richard Beckinsale, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay, Ronnie Barker,
Directors : Dick Clement,

This prison comedy is based on the popular British television series of the same name. Long time Slade prison inmate Fletcher is ordered by Grouty to arrange a football match between the ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like ...

Actors : Karen Valentine, Susan Clark, Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Bruce Bilson,

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

Actors : Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Rudy Ray Moore, Jerry Jones,
Directors : J. Robert Wagoner,

A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that's sweeping the streets, ...

Actors : Eddie Constantine, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger, Henry Silva,

Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.