Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Sven Wollter, Ernst Günther, Pia Green, Anita Wall,
Directors : Kjell Sundvall,

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister ...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli, Isabel Russinova,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question...

Actors : Youssef Dawood, Adel Imam, Ragaa Al-Gidawy, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Mohamed Abdel Aziz,

An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.

Actors : Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake, Steve Railsback, Ivan E. Roth,
Directors : William Fruet,

Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it's carrying,

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 : Peter MacNeill, Chris Sarandon, Victoria Tennant, Jean LeClerc,
Directors : Douglas Jackson,

A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.

Actors : Delhi Ganesh, Rajinikanth, Silk Smitha, Radhika Sarathkumar,
Directors : A. Jagannathan,

A sincere police officer is killed brutally by a liquor dealer. Years later, his twin son's sets out to avenge their father's death.

Actors : David Heavener, Shannon Tweed, David Campbell, Erik Estrada,
Directors : David Heavener,

In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns (called "stingers") instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of...

Actors : Fong Lui, Paul Chun, Joey Wang, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Norman Law Man,

After a botched attempt to nab a drug smuggler in a parking garage, police detectives Ho Ting-Bon (Yun-Fat Chow) and Cheong Yan (Fong Liu) accidentally cause a runaway car to hit a young ...

Actors : Wayne Crawford, Steve Kanaly, June Chadwick, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Francis Schaeffer,

A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, and he begins to have an affair with his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community ...

Actors : John Nishio, Laura Burkett, Steve Rally, Allen Wisch,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza (Japanese organized crime syndicate) ring operating in the city.

Actors : Sam Cook, Rod Taylor, Christopher Lee, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the...

Actors : Michel Aumont, Bernard Giraudeau, Fanny Cottençon, Fanny Bastien,
Directors : Edouard Niermans,

A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Renee Harmon, Antoine John Mottet, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : James Bryan,

An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.

Actors : Kam Kong Chow, Jaclyn Chu, Billy Sau Yat Ching, Philip Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Two policemen must pretend to be a gay couple in order to investigate the murders of homosexuals in Hong Kong.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Pia Zadora, Desi Arnaz Jr., Larry Storch,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Tina Ambani, Nutan,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Kidnapped at a very young age, two twin brothers are separated from there respective mother. One grows up with a criminal and industrialist Gama Matten alias Chinoy and the other works for ...

Actors : Bhanupriya, Sarath Babu, Satyanarayana Kaikala, Karthik,
Directors : Vamshi,

The story of an Ornithologist and a Police investigator coming to a forest and trying to solve the mystery of a series of killings allegedly by a man-eating tiger.