Best Crime movies of 1980s

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

A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.

Actors : Sela Ward, Ronny Cox, Bernie Casey, Martin Kove,
Directors : Robert Boris,

Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.

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 ...

Actors : Christina Whitaker, Tammara Souza, Elizabeth Kaitan, Nick Cassavetes,
Directors : Anita Rosenberg,

Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Darras, Daniel Ceccaldi, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,
Directors : Alain Delon,

Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

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 : Loren Avedon, Billy Blanks, Richard Jaeckel, Don Stroud,
Directors : Lucas Lowe,

A cop goes undercover in Thailand to avenge his brother's death in this martial arts film.

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 : 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 : 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 : Michel Galabru, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with ...

Actors : Conan Lee, Nina Li Chi, Norman Chu, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a...

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 : Robin Renucci, Philippe Noiret, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Roland Wolf wants to write a book about a TV game-show host, the hail-fellow-well-met Christian Legagneur, who invites Wolf to his country estate, promising several days of lengthy ...

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 : Josef Sommer, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Michelle Yeoh, Hoi Mang, 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 : Jean-Pierre Malo, Pierre Vernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Beaune,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.