Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless, Michael Douglas, Yaphet Kotto,
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 : Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams,
Directors : Dick Lowry,

Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Richard Masur, Richard Jordan, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. ...

Actors : André Wilms, Luc Thuillier, Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Blanc,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.

Actors : Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

The true story of Hossain Sabzian that impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.

Actors : Marie-Christine Descouard, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.

Actors : Elizabeth Peña, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown,
Directors : Kathryn Bigelow,

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

Actors : Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

Actors : David Niven, Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the...

Actors : Kirstie Alley, Tom Berenger, Sidney Poitier, Clancy Brown,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

An FBI agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.

Actors : Delhi Ganesh, Janagaraj, Saranya Ponvannan, Kamal Haasan,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

A common man's struggles against a corrupt police force put him on the wrong side of the law. He becomes a don, who is loved and respected by many, but his growing power and influence exact a heavy toll.

Actors : James Woods, Allison Balson, Victoria Tennant, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : John Flynn,

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right,...

Actors : James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Haid,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : Darlanne Fluegel, Gregory Hines, Steven Bauer, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.

Actors : John Glover, Roy Scheider, Vanity, Ann-Margret,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.

Actors : Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Thomas Michael Donnelly,

Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which...

Actors : Simon Yam, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee,
Directors : John Woo,

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Actors : Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Kawakami, Takeshi Kitano, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.