Best Crime movies of 1988

Actors : Shane Briant, Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters,
Directors : Mark Joffe,

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Actors : Anna Samokhina, Valentin Gaft, Boris Shcherbakov, Vladimir Steklov,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Actors : Yoshiko Kayama, Hiroki Matsukata, Hitomi Kuroki, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Tatsuichi Takamori,

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

Actors : Carlos Cardán, Manuel Capetillo hijo, Gabriela Goldsmith, Sergio Ramos,
Directors : Julio Ruiz Llaneza,

A boy witness the murder of his family. Years later the killers are killed one by one. The boy now a grown man falls in love with the daughter of one of them. Is he the killer now looking for revenge?

Actors : Ken Tong, Tung-Shing Yee, Pat Ha, Rosamund Kwan,

June is brutally gang raped by four men, she then teams up with her best friend, Amy, and swear to avenge.

Actors : Devan, Parvathi, Saleena, Vineeth,
Directors : T. Hariharan,

When feudal lords try to exploit the tribal people, a group of naxals put up resistance. The feudal lords decide to suppress the resistance. Who will emerge triumphant in the fight for justice?

Actors : Germán Cobos, Francisco Rabal, Chema Mazo, Maribel Verdú,
Directors : Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi,

Spain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The inhabitants will ask for help to Captain Medina, young ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Mithun Chakraborty, Vikas Anand, Asrani,
Directors : K. Bapaiah,

Wealthy Lata I. Prasad refuses to obey her widower father's instructions to get married to equally wealthy Rajan, the second son of Sikanker Lal Thakkar, her dad's business partner. She ...

Actors : Julie Carmen, Timothy Carhart, Lise Cutter, Martyn Stanbridge,
Directors : Jan Eliasberg,

Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.

Actors : Yukijirô Hotaru, Yutaka Ikejima, Fumiaki Tobayama, Sayaka Hitomi,
Directors : Shûji Kataoka,

A woman is raped on a crowded subway. No one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings, with tragic results, including the victimization of the reporter ...

Actors : Ahmed Rateb, Wahid Seif, Soheir El-Bably, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

Bakiza and Zaghloul live together in a single room on the roof after losing their mansion and fortune. After being fired from their jobs, the two ladies go searching for work until they ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, George Ajex, Alan Cunningham, Bartl Markus,

In a struggle for supremacy, two childhood buddies are caught on opposite sides of a deadly gang war. Their capture and subsequent release by the police sparks off another confrontation ...

Actors : Redford White, Regine Velasquez, Edgar Mortiz, Caridad Sanchez,
Directors : Tony Y. Reyes,

Ma Barker and sons Mad Max, Machinegun Nonong and Pretty Boy Fredo want to be the number one criminal family in the land.

Actors : Jim Haynie, Jurgens Doeres, Scott Paulin, Barbara Schock,
Directors : Rex Pickett,

Two loser detectives need to score a case or give it up. Finding a missing starlet leaving a trail of blackmail and murder may be too much for them.

Actors : Dan Shor, Laura Burkett, Raymond J. Barry, Daryl Haney,
Directors : Joseph Minion,

A dark comedy set in 1930s America. Jimmy and Christie become celebrity bank robbers whose stardom ends in a bloody shootout when Daddy's Boys catch up with them.

Actors : Paavo Pentikäinen, Eeva Litmanen, Martti Tschokkinen, Carl-Kristian Rundman,
Directors : Taavi Kassila,

Easy-paced, semi-comedic story based on actual events, "the first American-style post office robbery in Finland". In the mid-1950s, a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and...

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Rita Rusic, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is ...

Actors : Robert Morin, Anne Rousseau, Carole Dalcourt, Ainey Madeleine,
Directors : Robert Morin,

Ten strangers are invited to an isolated mansion on an island and begin to die mysteriously one by one.

Actors : Jan Peszek, Leonard Pietraszak, Grazyna Trela, Marian Kociniak,
Directors : Wojciech Wójcik,

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

Actors : Alberto Pedret, Martha Roth, José Carlos Ruiz, Bruno Rey,
Directors : Juan Fernando Pérez Gavilán,

An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.