Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the...

Actors : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

Four unemployed men try to impress a new neighbor. Hilarity ensues, until the antagonist puts in an appearance.

Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall, 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 : Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Roy Scheider, Harley Cross, Cooper Huckabee,
Directors : Eric Red,

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Adam Faith, Billy Murray, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Richard Masur, James Remar, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Jerry London,

When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug ...

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Viktor Stepanov, Valeriy Priyomykhov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Markku Toikka, Esko Nikkari, Aino Seppo, Hannu Lauri,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Actors : Christopher Hewett, Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Larry Hankin,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Several shady and shallow people try to profit, one after the other, from a physically deformed teenager whose face looks like a snout of a rodent and who lives hidden in a city garbage dump, alone and miserable.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Novak,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the ...

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 : Forest Whitaker, Joe Pantoliano, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia. When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown,...

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Karen Young, Burt Reynolds,

Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.

Actors : Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Mukesh, Saikumar, Rekha Mallick,

Three unemployed men find answers to all their financial problems when they decide to get involved in a kidnapping scheme.

Actors : Yasuo Daichi, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.