Best Crime movies of 1980s

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

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

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 : Allison Balson, James Woods, 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 : Sylvia Kristel, Don Adams, Andrea Howard, Rhonda Fleming,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Robin Williams, James Wainwright, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Actors : Cher, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his ...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Willis, Mariel Hemingway, James Garner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Melanie Griffith, Sean Bean,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.

Actors : Paul Freeman, Madonna, Sean Penn, Richard Griffiths,
Directors : Jim Goddard,

Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic...

Actors : Brian Benben, Matthias Hues, Betsy Brantley, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst ...

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.

Actors : Esmond Knight, Michael Elphick, Jerold Wells, Me Me Lai,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.

Actors : Dean Shek, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Actors : Alan Bates, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Sammi Davis,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Martin, an IRA hitman, is seen by a catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Jackie Chan, Rosamund Kwan, Carina Lau,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

Actors : Harris Yulin, Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Tom Holland,

Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics police officer with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of "Fatal Beauty"...

Actors : Darren McGavin, John Hurt, Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must re-examine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now ...

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Alex Man, Jacky Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.