Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Alfred Cheung, Kau Lam, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Alfred Cheung,

Shapely mainland Chinese police inspector Cousin is forced to work with a Hong Kong cop, fighting against him almost until the end credits roll, when she reveals more than her Communist ...

Actors : Mammootty, Captain Raju, Jagadish, Prathapachandran,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

A Crime Branch Detective fights the clock to prevent a looming assassination attempt on the Kerala Chief Minister's life.

Actors : Ian McShane, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Mike Connors,
Directors : Tony Lo Bianco,

A killer is brutually attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

Actors : André Falcon, Philippe Noiret, Dorothée, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

For inspector Baroni,Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife.

Actors : Lisa Langlois, Stefan Wodoslawsky, Christopher Plummer, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lord,

When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.

Actors : Stephen Chow, Kuan Tai Chen, Kenneth Tsang, Sibelle Hu,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

A common thief and an employee of a Hong Kong stock company try to help an amnesia-plagued undercover cop to regain his memory and locate the whereabouts of the 50 million dollars cash used...

Actors : Stuart Chapin, Rif Hutton, David Marriott, Metanel Ryan,
Directors : Addison Randall,

Detective Ian 'Shotgun' Jones hunts a sadistic misogynistic maniac.

Actors : John Laughlin, Michael Paré, Richard Farnsworth, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Conrad E. Palmisano,

In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets ...

Actors : Meredith MacRae, Greg Mullavey, Garrett Morris, Austen Tayler,
Directors : Bruce R. Cook,

Exasperated by his intrusions, a family shoots a census taker and tries to hide his body from a detective.

Actors : Blackie Dammett, Henry Darrow, Wings Hauser, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Worth Keeter,

An ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter goes after a crazed killer.

Actors : Phyllis Logan, Nicholas Charles, Bob Peck, Edwin Mahinda,
Directors : Harry Hook,

The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Neusinha Brizola, Dedina Bernardelli, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Ivan Cardoso,

Botanist is incapable of handling a carnivore plant that turns its victims into vampires. Clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show.

Actors : Nadia Capone, Nial Lancaster, Robert Bidaman, Erica Fairfield,
Directors : Robert Bergman,

A gang of escaped convicts take over a farmhouse and hold the woman living there hostage. It turns out that her husband is a cop, who among other things is in trouble because he has ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Satish Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Kimi Katkar,
Directors : Keshu Ramsay,

Ravi gets a call from Father Anthony saying that his missing wife is with him in the Church.But when he meets her claims that she is not his wife. Inspector Balbir finds all the proofs are against Ravi but why is Ravi not ready to face it?

Actors : Suzanne Snyder, Season Hubley, David Birney, Susannah York,
Directors : George Kaczender,

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating ...

Actors : Chris Holder, Danny Bonaduce, Molly Cheek, Tony Crupi,
Directors : John McCauley,

A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.

Actors : Lee Ann Nestegard, Edward Chester, David Christopher Adamson, Peter Roberts,
Directors : Robert Bouvier,

A detective teams up with a talk-show host to take down a homophobic serial killer on the streets of Toronto.

Actors : Richard Ng, Philip Chan, Deannie Yip, John Sham,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young girl from a ruthless crime lord, as she possesses a ledger that contains all of the ...

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Charles Napier, Ronny Cox, John Matuszak,
Directors : Dale Trevillion,

In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner