Best Crime movies of 1979

Actors : Pierre Agostino, Chuck Alford, Carolyn Brandt, Jim Parker,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

Hollywood Strangler ("Johnathan Click") kills young models... Skid Row Slasher kills winos ... What will happen when they meet?

Actors : Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon, Clémentine Amouroux, Gerald Battiaz,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to ...

Actors : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Serge Avedikian, Michelle Marquais,
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 : Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Mimi Coutelier, Jean Yanne, The Village People, Ritchie Family,
Directors : Jean Yanne,

Actors : Oliver Tobias, David Niven, Elke Sommer, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Pinky is released from prison and has decided to go straight from now on, but accidentally getting himself a job as a maintenance man at a large bank, gives him a lot of undue attention ...

Actors : Jennifer Warren, Terrayne Crawford, Robert De Niro, Jarred Mickey,
Directors : Jordan Leondopoulos,

Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.

Actors : Narciso Busquets, Angélica Chain, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Ernesto Gómez Cruz,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell,
Directors : Ross Hagen,

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

Actors : Brigitte Lahaie, Muriel Montossé, Sandra Flower, Marcel Charvey,
Directors : Jean-Claude Roy,

Juliette (Brigitte Lahaie), an an ex-prostitute whose twin passions in life are men and money. When she isn't indulging in steamy sex sessions, Juliette and her lover Chris plan to ...

Actors : Lyubov Virolaynen, Nikolay Penkov, Mikhail Golubovich, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Olgerd Vorontsov,

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse... See full synopsis »

Actors : Sonia Garcia, Francisco Cavalcanti, Joana de Oliveira, Lirio Bertelli,
Directors : Francisco Cavalcanti,

In 1947, the peasant Jones and his four year-old son Julinho are executed by Jarbas and the other five brothers of his wife Martha that do not accept the marriage of their sister with a ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Vijay Arora,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Impressed with the dedication shown by Police Inspector Gautam, the Commissioner of Police assigns him to police a lawless town, which is over-run by criminals, and where no police officer ...

Actors : Yun-jeong Hong, Hie-jeong Bang, Dae-kun Lee, Su-cheon Bae,
Directors : Ki-nam Nam,

Truck driver Mansu drives dreams of owning an orchard where he can live in peace with his mom. He is in love with Inok yet kills her ex-boyfriend by accident in a fight. Bumgu makes it look...

Actors : Jarmila Derkova, Eduard Cupák, Karel Augusta, Daniela Bakerová,
Directors : Dusan Klein,

Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and the dissection proves that she had died about four ...

Actors : Mario Almada, Roger Cudney, Fernando Almada, Ursula Prats,
Directors : Rubén Galindo,

Two detective brothers look for the criminals who killed their brother, as they catch drug dealers and interrogate thugs in the name of the law.

Actors : Nora Miao, Lun Chia, Wai-Man Chan, Pauline Yu-Huan Wang,
Directors : Wu Ma,

Handcuff is a biographical film about the life of Hong Kong Gangster Chen Hui Man. In the film, Chan wants to quit the triads and retire to Europe but the dons have other ideas.

Actors : Adel Imam, Ahmed Rateb, Salah Nazmi, Athar El-Hakim,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

Adel Gahrib is a widowed insurance sales man living alone with his young daughter Nuha, whom he dotes on. He falls in love with his new neighbor Safaa, and proposes to marry her. Just when ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Ashok Kumar, Prema Narayan, Mahendra Sandhu,
Directors : Shiv Kumar,

An escaped convict blows up a train just to extract vengeance against the CBI Inspector who arrested him.

Actors : Elio Zamuto, Biagio Pelligra, Mario Merola, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.