Best Crime movies of 1978

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, James Kerry, Donna Evans,
Directors : Donovan Winter,

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

Actors : Orçun Sonat, Richard Harrison, Aysun Güven, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Vural Pakel,

A murder witness and his sister must try to escape from two assassins who want to bring them to silence before they can testify in court.

Actors : Bhavana Bhatt, Danny Denzongpa, Major Anand, Leena Das,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Mahesh Chopra lives a middle-classed lifestyle with his Government-employee dad, and mom, Shanti, in Government quarters in Bombay. Here he is enrolled in an Arts college, and is in love ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jeetendra, Sarika,
Directors : K. Bapaiah,

Vijay (Jeetendra) is a Crime Reporter and very often helps the police in apprehending criminals. When his stepmother (Kamini Kaushal) passes away, she asks him to look after his ...

Actors : Milan Sandhaus, Miroslav Machácek, Ivan Vyskocil, Jirí Kodet,
Directors : Karel Kovár,

Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though ...

Actors : Edgard Franco, Clayton Silva, Novani Novakoski, Ewerton de Castro,
Directors : Antonio Bonacin Thome,

Marta and Rodrigo have just got married and arrive home for the honeymoon. However, a gang led by the sadistic Carlos breaks in their house and three thieves rape Marta. However, one of ...

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Randhir Kapoor, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Sadanah,

The theft of Devi Maa's statuette jeopardizes the lives of a noble family.

Actors : Marco Gelardini, Italo Gasperini, Eleonora Giorgi, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Gianni Crea,

Two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them. The ...

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Nathalie Delon, Dagmar Lassander, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Giorgio Cristallini,

An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Joginder Shelly,
Directors : Satpal,

Ram Kumar Verma is an honest albeit unsuccessful Insurance Agent. His poor performance and a quick settlement for Renu and her mom gets him transferred to Madhya Pradesh. During the train ...

Actors : Mitch Vogel, Lindsay Bloom, Patrick Wayne, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A trip across the United States takes a wrong turn when three California teenagers have their van stolen. Stranded in a backwoods town with the sheriff refusing to help, the trio decide to settle scores while getting justice.

Actors : Lloyd Nolan, David Doyle, Ida Lupino, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Bethel Buckalew,

Teenagers plot the robbery of an armored car.

Actors : Yoshio Harada, Kôji Tamura, Shinobu Yûki, Kenichi Kaneda,
Directors : Kôichi Gotô,

Tadao returns from Tokyo to live in his home town. Living with his parents, he gets a job fixing radios and TV sets. He catches up with an old school friend, Tetsuji. One night Tetsuji decides to elope to Tokyo with a bar hostess.

Actors : Henry G. Sanders, Rita Moreno, Rudy Solari, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

Bobby needs money and the easiest way is to ask his father for a job. But Dad decides his son should start at the bottom of his carpet business and earn his way to a better position. Bobby ...

Actors : Michelle Yim, Dana, Bruce Li, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

A chauffeur is pursued by drug dealers after his boss, a convicted drug kingpin, is sentenced to death.

Actors : Jirí Bartoska, Miroslav Moravec, Jirí Krampol, Josef Vinklár,
Directors : Otakar Fuka,

A well organized group works at a petrol-pump: the chief Vávra, Engineer Stejskal and Karafa. Work is done quickly and the profit in their own pockets grows as well. The fourth employer, ...

Actors : Mireia Ros, Linda Lay, Eva Lyberten, Alicia Orozco,
Directors : Ignacio F. Iquino,

A gang of four out of control adolescent ruffians egg each other on, to take hostage, torture, and brutally rape several girls, whilst on the run from the law.

Actors : Frank Whiteman, Meredith MacRae, Clayton Wilcox, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Paul Leder,

An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...

Actors : Radhika Bartake, Shreeram Lagoo, Vinod Mehra, Nutan,
Directors : Saawan Kumar Tak,

Asha lives a poor lifestyle along with her widowed dad, is in love with aspiring doctor Raj Kumar, and hopes to marry him someday. When Raj announces that he is traveling abroad to study, ...

Actors : Reena Roy, Ranjeet, Shatrughan Sinha, Asha Sachdev,

Widower Raka lives a poor lifestyle in Dhangaon, along with two daughters, Bina and Asha, and makes a living as a farmer in a region controlled by Thakur Harnam Singh. Due to drought there ...