Best Crime movies of 1981

Actors : Armando Silvestre, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Lina Michel, Gerardo Reyes,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

While serving time in prison, an Argentinean gangster tries to unify the members of an Italian gang known as the "Mariachis" with the objective of making future robberies more fruitful then...

Actors : Aruna Irani, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Girish Karnad,
Directors : Naeem Basit,

Widower Nawab Yusuf Khan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Sultanpur, British India, along with his school-going son, Shahnawaz, and a college-going brother, Aslam, When he finds out that Aslam ...

Actors : Zilda Mayo, Heitor Gaiotti, Francisco Cavalcanti, Joffre Soares,
Directors : Francisco Cavalcanti,

A prostitute gets pregnant by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: one is raised by his father and the other by the mother.

Actors : Jaroslav Tomsa, Petra Janu, Ivan Pokorný, Jelena Juklová,
Directors : Jan Schmidt,

Two criminals managed to escape from jail - Daman and Kejchal, nicknamed the Snow White. The Snow White kills a forest worker in a lonely caravan. On their way to the border state crossing ...

Actors : Pericles Campos, Osmar Alves, Luiz Carlos Braga, José Amaral,
Directors : Antonio Meliande,

Lilian sustains her paraplegic mother working as a secretary for Daniel, which threatens to fire her if she doesn't submit to his desires. At night, Lilian attracts lonely men at nightclubs...

Actors : Hugo Stiglitz, Eduardo Fajardo, Maurizio Merli, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

Maurizio Merli plays the part of an journalist investigating the Mafia, and Hugo Stiglitz is his photographer sidekick. Despite a number of fights, car chases and explosions, for the first ...

Actors : David Chandler, Howard Dayton, Cameron Mitchell Jr., Jackson Bostwick,

Framed for a serious crime, a man attempts to escape from a maximum security satellite prison...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Asha Chandra, Yogeeta Bali, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Kashinath,

Shyam Sunder lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small village in India along with his widowed step-mother, Nirmala. He has taken to alcohol, and womanizing, goes away very often without ...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Lloyd Bochner, Marie-France Pisier, Wayne Rogers,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Brezková, András Bálint, Jozef Adamovic,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A remake of the 1948 atomic-age film, "Krakatit", by the same director. A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.

Actors : George Lam, Kee-chan Tang, Teddy Robin Kwan, Karl Maka,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valued stocks and bonds. Along the way, the...

Actors : Rajinikanth, S. Balaji, Kalyan Kumar, Showkar Janaki,
Directors : R. Krishnamurthy,

Two brothers who lead diametrically opposite lives must face off when one becomes a police officer.

Actors : Fred Schaffer, Bibiane Zeller, Ernst Konarek, Pavel Landovský,
Directors : Peter Patzak,

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun, and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".

Actors : Max H. Boulois, Peter Cushing, Claudine Auger, Hugo Stiglitz,
Directors : Max H. Boulois,

Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises.

Actors : Daljit, Master Bhagwan, Brahmachari, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Brij,

Kishinchand has taken to a life of crime, namely that of forging passports, and for that is under surveillance by the police. Upon his wife, Shanti's, and son, Pyarelal's insistence, he ...

Actors : Amol Palekar, Parikshat Sahni, Veena, Rameshwari,
Directors : Kamal Majumdar,

When her former lover, Anupam, returns to her life, her husband kills himself, and after this sudden suicide, Karuna Choudhary must not only look after the household; their family business,...

Actors : Juan Ramon Benitez, Cinira Camargo, Renée Casemart, Roberto De Felice,

This film name was "Kapanga" in Paraguay, the country that was filmed.

Actors : Pauline Teutscher, Grazia De Giorgi, Roger Beach, Marcella Petrelli,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex through intimate relations with her father's business partner. The partner plans to use...

Actors : Nikos Apergis, Giannis Voglis, Nelli Gini, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Dimis Dadiras,

This movie could be described as Greece's answer to "Death Wish". Also has shades of "Taxi Driver"! Voglis plays a father who takes revenge for the death of his 14-year old son. He starts ...

Actors : Milton Moraes, Carlo Mossy, Helena Ramos, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Victor di Mello,

Robber gets into a house in the Santa Teresa district, in Rio de Janeiro, and kidnaps a family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping happened in Rio, whose victim, the kid Carlinhos, ...