Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Brad Davis, Jonathan Banks, Sharon Stone, Jay Acovone,
Directors : Dorothy Ann Puzo,

On Christmas Eve Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also target in a ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Peter Zinner,

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect...

Actors : John Schneider, Kirk Douglas, Lisa Dunsheath, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Mervat Amin, Zizi Mustafa, Abdel Halim Hafez,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

Actors : David Wu, Robin Shou, Donnie Yen, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

An ex-cop and divorce lawyer team up with a gangster to clear their names after getting involved in a dirty money scheme led by a vicious money launderer, who plans to expand his business and wipe out anyone who stands in his way.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, Michael York, Mapi Galán,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.

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 : Dan Campbell, Robert R. Shafer, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd,
Directors : Wallace Potts,

Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Paul Chun, Cherie Chung, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun-dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but...

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 : Barbara Cupisti, Federico Rizzo, Adriana Franceschi, Carlo Verdone,
Directors : Carlo Verdone,

Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party ...

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Robin Evans, Gerry Gibson, Lewis Van Bergen,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Kara Hui, Sibelle Hu, Regina Kent,
Directors : Wellson Chin,

Madame Wu (Sibelle Hu) has been assigned to the Hong Kong Police Academy to train female Banshee Squad Members, next door to the male Tiger Squad Members lead by Inspector Kan (Shui-Fan ...

Actors : Linda Miller, James Brolin, Richard S. Castellano, Cliff Gorman,

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : William Zipp, Robert Tessier, David Carradine, Anna Rapagna,
Directors : David A. Prior,

In the future, a cop protects a reporter from an organization of crooked, renegade cops who thinks she knows too much about them.

Actors : Ronald L. Marchini, Jennifer Jostyn, Adam West, Meg Thayer,
Directors : Paul Kyriazi,

In the future, a cop goes after a gang of slave traders.

Actors : Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...