Best Crime movies of 1989

Actors : Asokan, Maniyanpilla Raju, Gavin Packard, Mohanlal,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Mohanlal helps a white man (Fabien) escape from Kerala Jail for money, but turns out for ulterior motives.

Actors : Ilkka Heiskanen, Niina Nurminen, Katja Kiuru, Mikko Reitala,
Directors : Lauri Törhönen,

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Piotr Fronczewski, Jerzy Bonczak, Krzysztof Zaleski,
Directors : Miroslaw Bork,

This film is based on the life of a swindler called Jack Silberstein who was active until the end of 1960s.

Actors : Carl Huybrechts, Freark Smink, Peter Firth, Beatie Edney,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

In the harbor of Rotterdam, an action group called "Redpeace" discovers illegal weapon transports. Those are executed by shipping-trade Kusters Shipping Company. The discovery is annoying ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raza Murad, Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Bhrastachar tells the story of a disparate group of characters whose lives overlap- Bhavani, a journalist fighting injustice and corruption; Janki a widow who becomes the mistress of local ...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Beena Banerjee, Rakesh Bedi, Rajan Haksar,
Directors : Shibu Mitra,

The Editor and owner of a popular publication called 'Meri Zabaan" goes missing, believed dead, as he, Vikram Singh (Vinod Mehra) attempted to expose some big-wigs, leaving his young son, ...

Actors : Min Zhou, Xiaoning Liu, Lili Ge, Junyi Shen,
Directors : Zhou Sun,

A boy is kidnapped but it is a case of mistaken identity.

Actors : Vlatko Dulic, Gordana Gadzic, Ivica Vidovic, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Zoran Tadic,

Filip lives in the small town of Samobor, which is near Zagreb. He works in the local library as a librarian. Even though he moved to the small town many years ago, he still misses the ...

Actors : Jon Eikemo, Ståle Bjørnhaug, Amanda Ooms, Hans Ola Sørlie,
Directors : Oddvar Einarson,

Sara Philips is pressured into smuggling 2 kg heroin into Norway. She meets up with the narcotics agent Ted Hansen and lets him use her in a scheme to catch the powerful people in the drug ...

Actors : Javed Jaffrey, Hemant Birje, Dev Anand, Aditya Pancholi,
Directors : Jagdish Kadar,

Professor Anand lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his wife, son, Raju, and a sister, Barkha, who will soon get married to Police Inspector Sumeet. Anand gets information that ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Wilson Lam, Pak-Cheung Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng,
Directors : Jing Wong,

Nurse Liang Shanbo (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) and Actress Zhu Yingtai (Maggie Cheung) are mismatched cousins who just inherited a rental home from their late relative. When they moved in, they ...

Actors : Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Mike Watt, Michael Hecht,
Directors : Raymond Pettibon,

A strange spoof in the worst taste imaginable, renowned artist Raymond Pettibon studies the interpersonal relationships among a group of urban middle-class terrorists in the early Seventies.

Actors : Ken Boyle, Andy Lau, Siu Chung Mok, Elizabeth Lee,
Directors : Michael Mak,

Michal Mak's second sequel to his brother's action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Nutan,
Directors : Gopal B.,

An Indian government official tries to remain loyal to his job and the state when his career is threatened by a criminal cartel who plan on ruining him as well as his son whom deals with the hoodlums in his own way of justice.

Actors : Kathy Shower, Tom Badal, Sydney Lassick, Robert Ginty,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.

Actors : Sudha Chopra, Ratna Bhooshan, Vijayendra Ghatge, Mohan Gokhale,
Directors : Jyoti Sarup,

Police Inspector Navin, assigned to Santa Cruz Police Station in Bombay, gets a telephone call from a distraught woman, Aparna, that someone had attempted to kill her, but upon being ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alicia Moro, James Wall, Gaspar Cano,
Directors : Philippe Blot,

After two bank robbers take hostages, one of them anally rapes the Bank Cashier and then tries raping the bank manager Sylvia. The other robber is Ricardo, the bank president's son and ...

Actors : Jane Gurnett, Ulrich Wildgruber, Jeroen Krabbé, Susannah York,
Directors : Andi Engel,

Art critic Keller was once part of a far-left radical group. They contact him again 10 years later and ask him to assassinate a Chilean doctor and war criminal, who's visiting London, but Keller has lost his ideals and feels conflicted.

Actors : Kam Bun, An An, Pui-Kei Chan, Yuen Hung,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Three female cops are after a ganglord and try to protect their main witness

Actors : Kumija Kim, Seong-min Lim,
Directors : Hwang-rim Lee,

Knowing her sister's character, a woman feels no regret when her sister is murdered. In fact, she sympathizes with the killer. She takes it upon herself to defend the murderer from her brother, who is seeking revenge