Best Crime movies of 1989

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Aamir Khan, Supriya Pathak, Jagdeep,
Directors : Aditya Bhattacharya,

A poor, young man teams up with a burnt out cop to avenge the humiliation of his former girlfriend by a gang of goons.

Actors : Richard Harris, Raul Julia, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In nineteenth century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal, and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves, so her father, "the king of thieves", gets the gangster arrested.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Tien Niu, Danny Lee,

A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.

Actors : Claudio Amendola, Michele Placido, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo,
Directors : Marco Risi,

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and ...

Actors : Keith Carradine, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol, Valentina Vargas,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.

Actors : Jayne Hamil, Linnea Quigley, Ginger Lynn, Karen Russell,
Directors : Rick Sloane,

Two female cops go undercover to bust a porno ring.

Actors : Mohsen Zaehtab, Mahmud Bigham, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they ...

Actors : Ron Lea, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Nardo Castillo,

1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission...

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Richard Berry,
Directors : Alexandre Arcady,

Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, ...

Actors : Amrita Singh, Farooq Shaikh, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ketan Desai,

Honest police officer Hanuman Prasad Singh lives like friend and family with a magician by the name of Ramesh Kumar. Hanuman's wife passes away after giving birth to male twin babies; upon ...

Actors : Richard Bradford, Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Actors : William Zipp, Robert Tessier, David Carradine, Anna Rapagna,
Directors : David A. Prior,

In the future, a cop protects a reporter from an organization of crooked, renegade cops who thinks she knows too much about them.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Idy Chan, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan,

Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Actors : Russell Wong, Lisa Schrage, Steven Vincent Leigh, Billy Drago,
Directors : Ronny Yu,

In Amsterdam - in the time before the legalisation of some drugs and the following growth of competition on the market - takes place a war between the Italian and Chinese mafia because of ...

Actors : Karl Maka, Samuel Hui, Nina Li Chi, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.

Actors : Krista Errickson, Michael Bowen, Luca Bercovici, Zach Galligan,
Directors : Andrew Lane,

A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.

Actors : Margie Newton, Gabriele Gori, Chuck Valenti, Rod Robinson,
Directors : Vanio Amici,

In a futuristic New York City, a cyborg goes on a killing spree.

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.