Best Cop movies of 1982

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Carl Reiner, Alan Ladd, Steve Martin, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Actors : David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.

Actors : David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Howard Ross, Almanta Suska, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Actors : Joe Grifasi, Roy Scheider, Jessica Tandy, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jacques François, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them --...

Actors : Linden Chiles, Dawn Dunlap, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick,
Directors : Allan Holzman,

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.

Actors : Pepe Serna, Gary Swanson, Season Hubley, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice...

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son...

Actors : Dean Shek, Sylvia Chang, Karl Maka, Samuel Hui,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

A "James Bond" type burglar named King Kong (Sam Hui) tries to redeem himself and joins forces with Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bumbling police detective from the states, to try to ...

Actors : Robyn Douglass, John Hurt, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : James Burrows,

A straight police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Jean Carmet, Evelyne Bouix, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Perry King, Norman Parker, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : Arnold Marquis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert,
Directors : Wolf Gremm,

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Actors : André van Duin, Leen Jongewaard, Manouk van der Meulen, Geert de Jong,
Directors : Dimitri Frenkel Frank,

A quack dentist is mistaken by a corrupt Dutch Colonel for one of Napoleons Inspector Generals during Napoleons occupation in 1811. What follows is a hilarious feast of similar ...

Actors : Joly Garbi, Manos Destounis, Harry Klynn, Dimitris Piatas,

This film consists of three hilarious parts. In the first one we see a great police detective entering a house to solve a crime and destroying everything and everyone inside it, the second ...