Top 29 Crime Movies Fan Favorites from 1978

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison. Learn about Midnight Express / IMDB / YouTube

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey? See more about Death on the Nile / IMDB / YouTube

To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his death has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him. Get info on Revenge of the Pink Panther / IMDB / YouTube

A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective. Explore The Driver / IMDB / YouTube

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible. Learn about Rolling Thunder / IMDB / YouTube

Don, a wanted criminal, dies in a police chase. DSP D'Silva is the only one who knows about his death, and to get hold of the gang he trains Don-lookalike Vijay. But Vijay faces danger from the police and from within the gang. Details on Don / IMDB / YouTube

When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail. Info on Blue Collar / IMDB / YouTube

A Navy detective enlists his brother, a former gambler, to help him liquidate an illegal gaming house on a yacht near Miami. Details on Odds and Evens / IMDB / YouTube

The difficulties of a career burglar to reinsert himself after being released on parole. Get info on Straight Time / IMDB / YouTube

A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall. Find out about F.I.S.T. / IMDB / YouTube

San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure. Info on The Cheap Detective / IMDB / YouTube

A grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail-turned-murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer, and a gangster. Read about The Big Sleep / IMDB / YouTube

Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediatlz before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Riyyo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo. See more about Knock-Out Cop / IMDB / YouTube

Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk. Read about Jubilee / IMDB / YouTube

A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, which cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits, with only $58,000 recovered. Read about The Brink's Job / IMDB / YouTube

A Vietnam veteran involves his Wife and a war buddy in the dangerous world of drug smuggling. Explore Who'll Stop the Rain / IMDB / YouTube

A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico. Check out Hitch-Hike / IMDB / YouTube

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother. Find out about Fingers / IMDB / YouTube

European chefs are being killed in the same ways that their special dishes are prepared. Pastry chef Natasha O'Brien is suspected, as is her ex-husband Robby Ross, a fast-food franchiser looking for chefs to endorse his omelet shops. Get info on Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? / IMDB / YouTube

After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder. Details on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / IMDB / YouTube

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences. Get info on Violette / IMDB / YouTube

A maniac killer in a red cape and hood is killing off American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs. Get info on Eyeball / IMDB / YouTube

When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp... Find out about Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet / IMDB / YouTube

The body of a schoolgirl is found in a meadow. The murderer is never caught, and years later, a young man named Stefano returns to the island and is reunited with his brother, the local priest. Find out about The Bloodstained Shadow / IMDB / YouTube

A tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice. Look into The Tough Ones / IMDB / YouTube

While attempting to win the affections of a beautiful rival, a master thief risks death to learn the secret intentions of a wealthy and seemingly immortal, but certainly ruthless, recluse. Explore Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo / IMDB / YouTube

A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into volunteering to help juvenile delinquents change paths. Details on A Piece of the Action / IMDB / YouTube

In Australia, a retired police inspector is called to duty to solve the murder case of a young woman whose partially-burned body has been found on the beach. Find out about The Pyjama Girl Case / IMDB / YouTube

The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison. See more about The Escape / IMDB / YouTube