Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Robert De Niro, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Patrick O'Neal, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Irvin,

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Actors : Wendy Morgan, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

Miss Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Actors : Raul Julia, Diane Salinger, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Barbara Carrera, David Carradine, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Bill Tung,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Actors : John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Ann Dusenberry, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Tomas Milian, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a ...

Actors : Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker,

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big (Joe Pesci).

Actors : Michael Wright, Louis Gossett Jr., James Belushi, Rae Dawn Chong,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Miroslaw Baka,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.

Actors : James Woods, Yuji Okumoto, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

Actors : Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A murdered detective must avenge his murder after he is reincarnated as a dog.

Actors : Perry Lopez, Charles Bronson, John P. Ryan, Kay Lenz,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.

Actors : Eric Gurry, Jim Moody, Reni Santoni, Sean Penn,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.