Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : Richard Widmark, Kathleen Quinlan, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Actors : Nick Dimitri, Pat Mulligan, Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer,
Directors : John Dahl,

A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Kris Kristofferson, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ronny Cox, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Bob Clark,

An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Berg, Gábor Balogh, Imre Chmelik,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Actors : Pat Ast, Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Kemal Sunal, Nazan Saatçi, Ali Sen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.

Actors : John Vernon, Tamara Dobson, Linda Blair, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

Actors : Robert Picardo, James Spader, Jim Haynie, Cynthia Gibb,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him.

Actors : Hoi Mang, Emily Chu, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan,

Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped ...

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Dianne Wiest, Peter Falk, Emily Lloyd,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

Paroled labor racketeer "Dapper" Dino is sought after by a "politically ambitious" prosecutor schemes to put him back in jail and a deceitful partner sizes him up for concrete shoes.

Actors : Grace De Capitani, Philippe Noiret, Régine, Thierry Lhermitte,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Rene is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. When his partner retires, he must team up ...

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Whoopi Goldberg, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body ...

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Randy Moore,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Virgil Frye, Keith Vitali, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds...

Actors : Richard Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Caine, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to 'level' the playing ...

Actors : Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Daniel Vigne,

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.