Best Crime movies of 1978

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, Armando Bógus, Irene Ravache, Rolando Boldrin,
Directors : João Batista de Andrade,

A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Gloria Guida, Leonard Mann, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Giuseppe Rosati,

The death of a multinational company's chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot the ones against the others. One of the three simulates a deadly car accident to carry out his perfect criminal plan.

Actors : Yi-Hsing Chen, Chiang-neng Chen, Yung-Li Chen, Dan Lau,
Directors : Shan Hua,

A maniac hunts down and butchers a young woman.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Gianni Gori, Anna Romanou, Annamaria Clementi,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A group of villains steals a shipment of gold but after a while they are forced to dispose it in a sea in order to get away with their crime.

Actors : Sylvia Lueff, Samantha Romanou, Yiorgos Gintis, Haris Tryfonas,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

Tina is fascinated during her vacation with young shipowner Pavlos Dellis, who actually spends his time only with prostitutes, and arranges to get in his bed. When a prostitute is found dead, things get complicated.

Actors : Henryk Bista, Miroslaw Konarowski, Piotr Lysak, Tomasz Zaliwski,
Directors : Tadeusz Chmielewski,

A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hisashi Igawa, Ryûdô Uzaki, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi, Chiezô Kataoka,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Neetu Singh,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A young man fights spies to defend his country.

Actors : Vladimir Sedov, Yuriy Demich, Aleksandr Afanasev, Oleg Belov,
Directors : Nikolai Rozantsev,

Film-biography of Waclaw Worowski, a Moscow-born Pole turned Soviet revolutionary extremist. He operated in Europe under diplomatic cover surreptitiously financing pro-communist groups and ...

Actors : Patrick Olivier, Odile Michel, Patrice Valota, Florence Cayrol,
Directors : Jacques Scandelari,

The crime squad is after a drug and prostitution ring, which enables a number of scenes involving nudity and sex. They end up tackling a sado-maso club, headed by top level officials.

Actors : Ichirô Araki, Yûsaku Matsuda, Keiko Tasaka, Asao Uchida,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

Hitman Narumi is asked to rescue a kidnapped businessman who is involved in an air defense project. Narumi nearly succeeds but a stray shot kills the hostage. Nevertheless the person who hired Narumi now has another mission for him.