Best Crime movies of 1984

Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Gilles Béhat,

Actors : Sakari Rouvinen, Markku Halme, Minna Soisalo, Juhani Niemelä,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Actors : William J. Kulzer, Shea Porter, Elizabeth Trosper, George Engelson,
Directors : Howard Heard,

A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.

Actors : John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley, Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

Actors : Monica Carrico, Eric Stoltz, Virgil Frye, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Mark Griffiths,

A teenager, wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his father, escapes from jail. He hooks up with a prostitute and they take to the road to find the real killer of his father.

Actors : Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, Victor Lanoux, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A couple goes on the run after being accused for a crime they didn't commit.

Actors : Jack Taylor, Karin Schubert, Jean-René Gossart, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Pierre Chevalier,

A squad of female mercenaries take on an organization called Space Clean, which is dedicated to stopping space exploration.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Ernest Borgnine, Ethan Wayne, Henry Silva,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. ...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Richard Blackburn, Don Peoples, Catherine Schultz,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Tabloid reporter Lois Thornedyke and her photographer Barry Denver stumble upon evidence of a sex scandal, blackmail and political conspiracy that may involve her love interest Franklyn - the saintly Mayor of New York City.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Renee Harmon, Antoine John Mottet, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : James Bryan,

An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Marcia Clingan, Fred Williamson, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

Action film star Fred Williamson teams with Bo Svenson in this thrill-packed crime drama.

Actors : Nicolas Silberg, Michel Poujade, Caroline Aguilar, Gérard Sergue,
Directors : André Génovès,

Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins ...

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Dagmar Lassander,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to...

Actors : Jason Ross, John Dresden, Richard Young, Christine L. Tudor,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being ...

Actors : David Warbeck, John Steiner, Susie Sudlow, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.

Actors : Berta Cabré, Bruno Cremer, Fanny Cottençon, Francisco Algora,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Violence and delinquency are Fanny's only way of life. An ex-cop known as "el Gallego" was expelled from the police force because of his irregular methods, particularly for cruelly abusing ...

Actors : Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Paco Fabrini,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Meredith MacRae, Greg Mullavey, Garrett Morris, Austen Tayler,
Directors : Bruce R. Cook,

Exasperated by his intrusions, a family shoots a census taker and tries to hide his body from a detective.

Actors : Amaia Lasa, Imanol Arias, Montserrat Salvador, Fernando Telletxea,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and ...