Best Crime movies of 1979

Actors : Charles Grodin, Joan Collins, Art Carney, Farrah Fawcett,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out.

Actors : Alberto Farnese, Marina Ripa di Meana, Roberta Manfredi, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had ...

Actors : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Michelle Marquais, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Michel Drach,

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of ...

Actors : Hollis McLaren, Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Au Canada, un jeune homme, passeur d'émigrés clandestins vers les Etats-Unis, tue l'un de ses clients pour lui dérober une valise pleine de dollars. Il s'enfuit à bord d'un véhicule conduit...

Actors : Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol, Suzanna Love, Jack Palance,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf ...

Actors : Jun Fubuki, Mikio Narita, Kei Satô, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the ...

Actors : Seema, Mustafa Qureshi, Sultan Rahi, Aasia,
Directors : Yunus Malik,

Maula Jat tells the true story of it's eponymous hero's blood feud with the local "gunda" Nuri Nath.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Renato Pozzetto, Olga Karlatos, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Ian McShane, Stephen Greif, Warren Clarke, Christopher Malcolm,
Directors : Francis Megahy,

A group of fascists plan to finance their work by pulling off a bank robbery.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Marlène Jobert, Claude Rich, Georges Staquet,
Directors : Robin Davis,

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Actors : Van Johnson, Mario Merola, Biagio Pelligra, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Italian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his ...

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Cosie Costa, Ray Milland, Peter Graves,
Directors : Larry Spiegel,

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Francis Huster,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Actors : Kristine DeBell, Wally Ann Wharton, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A bus-load containing three cheer-leading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

Actors : Datta Bhatt, Satish Dubhashi, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

When Chief Minister of Maharashtra gets an anonymous call to warn him against possible rebellion in his party, all is not well. The current government is being questioned by opposition on a...

Actors : Maribel Martín, Deep Roy, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

Actors : Ünsal Emre, Cüneyt Arkin, Güngör Bayrak, Aldo Canti,
Directors : Italo Martinenghi,

The German professor tries out his time machine in Turkey. Everybody is after this new invention - Superman Detective Murat, his cheating colleagues Atak and Matrak as well as the mob ...

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Mario Cutini, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

A reporter and his girlfriend investigate deaths surrounding a hotel where several prominent people go to have sex.

Actors : Paul Mazursky, Allan Kolman, Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Noel Black,

The two least likely bank robbers in the known universe plan and execute... kind of... the ultimate heist.