Best Crime movies of 1981

Actors : Xun Bao, Bingjie Han, Xiong Xiao, Zhongqiu Huang,
Directors : Bin Liu,

Public Security officers investigate the robbery of a post office and the injury of a young woman.

Actors : Otto Sander, Rolf Eden, Hanns Zischler, Dave Balko,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail... See full synopsis »

Actors : Hércules Barbosa, Claudio D'Oliani, Zécarlos de Andrade, Luiz Carlos Braga,
Directors : Alfredo Sternheim,

Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Corinne Brodbeck, Silvia Aguilar, Philippe Klébert,
Directors : Max Pécas,

Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Poonam Dhillon, Hema Malini, Poornima Jayaram,
Directors : Ambrish Sangal,

Prosecuting Attorney Seema proceeds with the criminal prosecution of Deepak Srivastav, who is accused of Murder. She submits to the Judge to not be fooled by the innocent looks and the ...

Actors : Narayan Rao, Lakshmi, Madhavi, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : S.A. Chandrashekhar,

As a young boy, Chiranjeevi sees the murder of his father and sister, but the killers are released because of lack of evidence. This enrages him and he is out to seek revenge in a way not ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Wendy Hughes, Dennis Miller, John Hargreaves,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

True story about a jailed bank robber who pretends he's become blind to get an early release. Cops don't believe him, but a lonely minister's wife arrives to teach him how to live with his "condition". They fall in love. Big mistake.

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 : Daljit, Master Bhagwan, Zeenat Aman, Brahmachari,
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 : 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 : Herbert Bautista, Hero Bautista, William Martinez, Harlene Bautista,
Directors : Antonio B. Pascua,

Filipino take on Agatha Christie's classic story about ten people stuck in a remote place, who are killed one by one by someone as punishment for their supposed crimes.

Actors : Gunilla Olsson, Knut Husebø, Thomas Robsahm, Audun Meling,

Julia washes trains coupes for a living, when she one day meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the minister of justice. Falling in love with him, she also are involved in his criminal activity.

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 : 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 : 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 : Rajendra Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindiya Goswami, Mala Sinha,
Directors : K. Vijayan,

Ram Kapoor comes from a poor family, while Kiran comes from a middle-class family. Ram and his brother, Shyam, commit petty thievery to sustain themselves. Ram meets Kiran and both fall in ...

Actors : Master Amit, Asha Chandra, Master Chaitanya, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi,
Directors : Khalid Sami,

Sharda lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widower dad, Thakur Ranvir Singh, in Bombay, India. She incurs her dad's displeasure when she gets elopes and gets married to Jaichand ...

Actors : Aruna Irani, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
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 : 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 : Petar Kralj, Dragan Nikolic, Merima Isakovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic,

The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.