Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Dilip Kumar, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son...

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 : Li-Chun Lee, Wang An, Cora Miao, Pao-Ming Ku,
Directors : Edward Yang,

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Actors : Sam Neill, John Clarke, Zoe Carides, Yvonne Lawley,
Directors : John Ruane,

Carl Fitzgerald is down-on-his-luck until he meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. He gets a job as a cook, but accidentally kills fellow worker Mustafa. He turns to his unscrupulous best ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Actors : Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood, Lindy Davies,
Directors : Nadia Tass,

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. ...

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

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

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Castaldi,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended...

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

A honest but disgraced Police Inspector's attempts to clear his name pits him against terrorists and the brother of his sweetheart.