Best Crime movies of 1969

Actors : Claudio Camaso, Helga Anders, Marianne Koch, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

The characters engage in a séance at a mansion while a storm rages outside. During their stay, the film uses an extensive flashback structure to reveal the various criminal acts that each have perpetrated.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yumiko Katayama, Asao Koike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed...

Actors : Tommy Steele, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Stanley Baker,
Directors : James Clavell,

The adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Florinda Bolkan, Franco Nero, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Cesar Romero, Warren Oates,
Directors : Jim O'Connolly,

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.

Actors : Marcelino Yanahuaya, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet, Benedicta Mendoza,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

Actors : Georg Richter, Randi Kolstad, Sigrid Huun, Lillebjørn Nilsen,
Directors : Øyvind Vennerød,

Norwegain cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is harmless. Together with some friends they decide to try. The start of a drug Hell for all involved.

Actors : Hubert von Meyerinck, Stefan Behrens, Karin Hübner, Horst Tappert,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.

Actors : Reiko Ônobuta, Junko Miyazono, Kô Nishimura, Kenji Imai,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

Actors : Mümtaz Alpaslan, Feri Cansel, Yilmaz Güney, Deniz Arcan,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Irén Psota, Andor Ajtay, Ilona Medveczky, István Bujtor,
Directors : György Révész,

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza...

Actors : Liang Chen, Tina Chin-Fei, Pat Ting Hung, Liang Hua Liu,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Actors : Minoru Ôki, Bunta Sugawara, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Hiroshi Miyauchi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Actors : Norma Bengell, Maria Gladys, Hugo Carvana, Neville de Almeida,
Directors : Júlio Bressane,

Urtiga and Santamaria are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. They escape from the police siege in a slum in a hill ...

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Tamara Lund, Risto Aaltonen, Vesa-Matti Loiri,
Directors : Ere Kokkonen,

Two toy manufacturers fight over market shares. One of them is Jim King whose accountant gives him some precarious ideas on how to avoid paying taxes. King is also after his rival's ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Dauphin, Gérard Barray, Claude Vernier, Claude Jade,

Actors : Yuri Gusev, Aleksei Yakovlev, Nikolai Timofeyev, Nikolai Gritsenko,
Directors : Nikolai Rozantsev,

A spy is detected and followed in Leningrad.

Actors : Lionella Pyryeva, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Mikhail Kokshenov,
Directors : Vladimir Nazarov,

After the robbery of a store, detective Snezhkin suspects one of the drafters working at a saw mill. It starts a mental duel between two strong personalities.

Actors : Tatyana Pelttser, Lidiya Smirnova, Mikhail Zharov, Roman Tkachuk,
Directors : Ivan Lukinsky,

Dervenskiy detektiv (1968) (aka...Rural detective) is based on the eponymous book by Vil Lipatov. About the detective Aniskin, who lives in the village, where everyone likes him.