Best Crime movies of 1965

Actors : Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Irina Demick, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ...

Actors : Virna Lisi, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese, Peter Baldwin,

A visitor arrives in a small Italian village looking for a woman. Residents tell him that she committed suicide but there's more to the mystery than they're letting on. Meanwhile, a strange woman walks by the lake.

Actors : Jan Murray, Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Elaine Stritch,
Directors : Joseph Cates,

In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Guy Stockwell, Jack Warden, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Philip Dunne,

A New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Maximilian Schell, Herbert Lom, Ingrid Thulin,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.

Actors : Margot Trooger, Barbara Rütting, Brigitte Horney, Heinz Drache,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.

Actors : Mike Kannon, Ray Dennis Steckler, Bart Carsell, Coleman Francis,

The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in this Bowery Boys inspired kiddie film.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Annie Anderson, Roger Dutoit, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

Actors : Tôru Abe, Ken Takakura, Tetsurô Tanba, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Shinichi is a good guy serving three years and approaching the end of his time. He escapes handcuffed to dangerous Gunda, who instigated the escape. Thus tethered, they start out on a journey across the desolate snow country of Hokkaido.

Actors : Suzanne Lloyd, Marne Maitland, Henry Silva, Terence Longdon,
Directors : Ernest Morris,

Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Gustavo Re, Sylva Koscina, Ángel Picazo,
Directors : Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi,

When a hostage-for-ransom exchange goes wrong, the F.B.I. sends an agent to Turkey to retrieve the ransom money and the hostage who's an important nuclear-weapon scientist.

Actors : Heinz Weiss, George Nader, Sylvia Pascal, Helga Schlack,
Directors : Fritz Umgelter,

The first Jerry Cotton movie is a good one. Jerry's after crooks who pose as a musical band. He infiltrates the gang, cozying up to their gun moll boss and trying to find out what she knows...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Marie Laforêt, Charles Denner, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mara Maryl, Luciano Pigozzi, Dominique Boschero,

A young man goes with his wife to a spooky house, an inheritance from his father.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Actors : Roy Morton, Tanya Maree, Tacey Robbins, Kirk Duncan,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family upon whose truck they threw them, meanly interrogating them in the hope of getting them back.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Leo Gordon,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a ...

Actors : Gastone Moschin, Philippe Leroy, Rossana Podestà, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Marco Vicario,

One of the best intrigue/caper movies ever made! Delightful is the perfect word to describe this film that is full of sci-fi gimmicks, plot twists, slick and not-so-slick criminals, and gorgeous dames. Podesta is a 100% bonafide KNOCKOUT!

Actors : Margaret Lee, Roger Hanin, Micaela Pignatelli, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Louis Rapiere aka Tiger is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guyane), to supervise the recuperation of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and robs the ...

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Paul Klinger, Stewart Granger, Horst Frank,
Directors : Ernst Hofbauer,

An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to infiltrate an international nuclear smuggling ring.