Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Doug Erholtz, Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, David Jarvis,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

The screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 must investigate and stop a spree of rampaging construction robots.

Actors : Alexandra Paul, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Randy Brooks,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his ...

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 : Chun Hsiung Ko, Anita Mui, Jackie Chan, Ya-Lei Kuei,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

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 : Raul Julia, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez, Richard Jordan,
Directors : John Duigan,

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Actors : Victor Arnold, Jackie Chan, Sandy Alexander, Danny Aiello,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Two New York cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lara Harris, D.B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Peter Werner,

A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.

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 : James Woods, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.

Actors : Mitchell Lichtenstein, Michael Wright, David Alan Grier, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Gene Hackman, Randy Moore, Matt Dillon,
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 : 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.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.