Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : Mario Van Peebles, Robert Ginty, Deborah Geffner, Frankie Faison,
Directors : Mark Buntzman,

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

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 : Frederic Forrest, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Peter Weller,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

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 : 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 : Peter MacNicol, Karen Young, Howard Hesseman, 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 : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Viktor Stepanov,
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 : Barbara Williams, John Getz, David Caruso, Steven Bauer,
Directors : Douglas Day Stewart,

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she...

Actors : Jim Mapp, James Belushi, Robert Glaudini, John Waters,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

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.

Actors : Barbara Babcock, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Foxworth,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Ricky Busker,
Directors : Robert Mandel,

Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down...

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 : Helle Beck Figenschow, Henning Syverud, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

Actors : Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Ernst Günther, Håkan Serner,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were...

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

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

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Dick Richards,

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

This is the last of the two-part finale of the Olsen Banden series (apart from the 1998 revival). Egon comes up with one brilliant plan after another to get the red suitcase in an attempt ...