Best Crime movies of 1985

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 : Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, George Segal,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Ernest 'Stick' Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, ...

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Rossano Brazzi, Patrizia Pellegrino, Venantino Venantini,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Homicidal Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo is tasked with escorting a mobster to Malta; when the prisoner escapes, Geronimo goes rogue to catch him.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : Emilio Estevez, Larry B. Scott, Matthew Dudley, 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 : Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Gérard Depardieu,
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 : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Alexandre Arcady,

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly ...

Actors : Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.

Actors : Bronislaw Wroclawski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Jan Machulski,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. Imprisoned ex-banker Kramer ...

Actors : Nicole Garcia, Richard Bohringer, Anémone, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ...

Actors : Art Metrano, Shelley Taylor Morgan, Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A smooth-talking private eye is assigned the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laurent Terzieff, Nathalie Baye, Aurelle Doazan,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Shô Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, James Booth,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.

Actors : Éva Darlan, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

Actors : Yehia El-Fakharany, Gamil Ratib, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura,
Directors : Ali Abdel-Khalek,

As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Hoi Mang, Michelle Yeoh, John Sham,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an ...

Actors : Betsy Russell, Ossie Davis, Susan Tyrrell, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. ...

Actors : Christiane Jean, Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ...

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Jeremy Pattnosh, Madonna, Charles Kurtz, Kate Magill,
Directors : Stephen Jon Lewicki,

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.