Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Giancarlo Giannini, Tom Conti, Coral Browne,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and ...

Actors : Don Murray, Bo Derek, Anthony Quinn, Julie Newmar,
Directors : John Derek,

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

Actors : Serra Yilmaz, Sahika Tekand, Macit Koper, Orhan Çagman,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.

Actors : Michel Creton, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ...

Actors : Richard Bright, Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : William Lustig,

Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a ...

Actors : Tetsurô Sagawa, Kôsei Tomita, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita,
Directors : Osamu Dezaki,

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an assassin-for-hire becomes the target of American soldiers and superhuman killers.

Actors : Baldwyn Dakile, Angelo Infanti, Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Steno,

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell...

Actors : Perry Lopez, Charles Bronson, James Pax, Juan Fernández,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

Actors : Camila Griggs, Mary Louise Weller, Chuck Norris, Michael Cavanaugh,
Directors : James Fargo,

A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Herman van Veen, Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Gérard Depardieu, Pascale Rocard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

Actors : Jason Campbell, Brian Dennehy, Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Gary Sinise,

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Actors : Stan Freberg, Ralph James, June Foray, Mel Blanc,
Directors : Friz Freleng,

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Thomas Quinn, Debra Feuer, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Seresin,

A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planing a big score.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Ka-Kui Ho, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never ...

Actors : Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...

Actors : Emilio Estevez, Matthew Dudley, Larry B. Scott, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

Actors : Christine Murillo, Valérie Mairesse, Gordon Mitchell, Pierre Richard,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.