A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 – off the record – for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ross Hagen |
| Writer: Hugh Smith (screenplay), Julian Roffman (screenplay), Hugh Smith (story), Ross Hagen (story) |
| Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell |
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian |
| Writer: Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian |
| Actors: Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Lynch |
Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother – played by a young Robert de Niro. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Jordan Leondopoulos |
| Writer: John C. Broderick |
| Actors: Robert De Niro, Jennifer Warren, Jarred Mickey, Terrayne Crawford |
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Crichton |
| Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay by), Michael Crichton (based on his novel) |
| Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb |
On the run from the police, S.S. Kumar, a thief, comes across a private invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley addressed to Raja Bahadur Singh. When the Raja is shot, Kumar takes him… Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Crime |
| Director: Krishna Shah |
| Writer: Kader Khan (Hindi dialogue), Momin Khan, Hriday Lani, Krishna Shah (dialogue), Krishna Shah (screenplay), Krishna Shah (story), Stanford Sherman (story) |
| Actors: Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Rex Harrison, Sylvia Miles |
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. Year 1978.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Norman Jewison |
| Writer: Joe Eszterhas (story), Joe Eszterhas (screenplay), Sylvester Stallone (screenplay) |
| Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon |
Jimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath. Year 1978.
| Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Fred Schepisi |
| Writer: Fred Schepisi (screenplay), Thomas Keneally (novel) |
| Actors: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson |
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 … Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Steno |
| Writer: Adriano Bolzoni (screenplay), Giovanni Simonelli (screenplay), Franco Verucci (screenplay), Rainer Brandt (screenplay), Franco Verucci (story) |
| Actors: Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale, Werner Pochath, Joe Stewardson |
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them. Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Greydon Clark |
| Writer: Greydon Clark |
| Actors: Mel Ferrer, Stephen McNally, Darby Hinton, Ralph Meeker |
Ram Kumar Verma is an honest albeit unsuccessful Insurance Agent. His poor performance and a quick settlement for Renu and her mom gets him transferred to Madhya Pradesh. During the train … Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance |
| Director: Satpal |
| Writer: Madhusudan Kalelkar (story), Ramesh Pant (dialogue), Ramesh Pant (script), V.K. Sharma (screenplay) |
| Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Moushumi Chatterjee, Joginder Shelly |
An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai. Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Cirio H. Santiago |
| Writer: Howard R. Cohen (screenplay), Cirio H. Santiago (story), Robert E. Waters (story) |
| Actors: James Iglehart, Carmen Argenziano, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy |
An Interpol agent is killed by gangsters after he saves the life of a wealthy industrialist who stood in their way. When the rest of his family is killed in a car crash, the Interpol … Year 1977.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Leody M. Diaz |
| Writer: Romeo N. Galang (screenplay), Bobby A. Suarez (story) |
| Actors: Johnson Yap, Joe Sison, Chito Guerrero, Danny Rojo |
Bruce Wong searches for his uncle in Manila, and ends up fighting for his life and the freedom of a number of girls from the local prostitution ring boss. Year 1977.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Crime |
| Director: Joseph Kong |
| Writer: Richard Dai, Joseph Kong, William C.F. Lo |
| Actors: Bruce Le, Fei Meng, Lieh Lo, James Nam |
When a hillbilly moonshiner is murdered by a powerful sleazy competitor, his three armed to the teeth daughters take over the family business and swear vengeance. Year 1977.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Gus Trikonis |
| Writer: Hugh Smith (screenplay), Daniel Ansley (screenplay) |
| Actors: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward |
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery. Year 1977.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Robert Aldrich |
| Writer: Joseph Wambaugh (novel), Christopher Knopf (screenplay) |
| Actors: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu |
A psychotic killer escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree. The SWAT team it sent out to track him down. Year 1977.
| Generes: Crime, Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Dave Adams |
| Writer: Dave Adams |
| Actors: Russ Dubuc, Cynthia Stewart, Robert McCourt, John Harper |