Best Crime movies of 1960s

Actors : Shin'ichi Mori, Meiko Kaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Ryôtarô Sugi,
Directors : Katsumi Nishikawa,

According to a very short description in Uni-Japan Film Monthly, these three pictures are based on ideas from Mori's songs. It should noted that singer Mori also had a similar recurring ...

Actors : Zoltán Latinovits, Miklós Szakáts, Éva Ruttkai, Mária Sulyok,
Directors : Zoltán Várkonyi,

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.

Actors : James Brown, John Banner, Gene Nelson, Merry Anders,
Directors : Jack Leewood,

An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.

Actors : Ryûji Oki, Yoshiko Sakuma, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.

Actors : Leslie Parrish, Manolo Fábregas, Pixie Hopkin, George Sanders,
Directors : Herbert J. Leder,

An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants ...

Actors : Adam West, Nancy Kwan, Buddy Greco, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Francis D. Lyon,

A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance adventurer. The gang threatens to kill ...

Actors : Howard Pays, Patrick Barr, Ruth Dunning, Terence Knapp,
Directors : Vernon Sewell,

A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.

Actors : John Lodge, Elisa Ingram, Joe E. Ross, Marlene,
Directors : Sherman Price,

A go-go dancer comes into possession of a priceless jewel, but before long she finds herself the target of gangsters and Cuban hitmen who also want it.

Actors : John Hewer, Vanda Hudson, Jean Muir, Ann Lynn,
Directors : Ernest Morris,

The stripper Rita is trying to blackmail her former lover, the wealthy Carlos Branco, threatening to reveal his illegal dope trade for the police. Branco responds by hiring the hit man ...

Actors : Dave Haller, Karen Beglan, Sandy O'Hara, Garry Achzieger,

A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy ...

Actors : Genevieve Wilde, Gay Lamour, Bayard King, Inga Daar,
Directors : Smythe David,

A peek into the squalid lives of a girl gang that boasts lesbianism, orgies, and . . . bank robbery.

Actors : Sven Lindberg, Åke Falck, Gio Petré, Anita Björk,
Directors : Rolf Husberg,

A member of a highly successful crime drama TV-series is found murdered in a TV studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to ...

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Hama, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Actors : Diana Dors, Eric Portman, Kathleen Breck, Alfred Lynch,
Directors : Michael Winner,

This Michael Winner directed film looks into life at Notting Hill, London, then a seedy slum. A down on his luck Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) is recruited into crime by Richard Dyce (Eric Portman).

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Göksel Arsoy, Ulvi Uraz, Nilüfer Aydan,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

A small time criminal gunslinger who is not yet listed as a gangster receives a suspicious help from a homicide detective who used to be his good friend before.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Uschi Obermaier, Elke Haltaufderheide, Marquard Bohm,
Directors : Rudolf Thome,

Two amateur private detectives use unusual methods towards their clients.

Actors : Merry Anders, John Holland, Willard Parker, Robert Dix,
Directors : Maury Dexter,

L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.

Actors : Hasse Ekman, Bengt Ekerot, Sigge Fürst, Lena Granhagen,
Directors : Hasse Ekman,

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight and Persson falls down ...

Actors : Eun-suk Choi, No-shik Park, Mi-ja Sa, Ji-hie Choi,
Directors : Yeong-cheol Choi,

Conman, Wang Do-seon, cheats Cheol-su out of all his savings with a dried fish scam. Cheol-su tries to commit suicide, but is saved by his half brother. His best friend is also taken in by ...

Actors : Hie Mun, Hae Hwang, Hyeok Jang,
Directors : Jong-ho Park,

Detectives struggle to unravel a difficult homicide while having to cope with political obstacles and dead end clues.