Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Poiret,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. The perspective of the inquiry changes when the ...

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Biao Yuen, Roy Chiao, Melvin Wong,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are ...

Actors : Jack Warden, Wallace Shawn, Sean Penn, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Louis Malle,

Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner ...

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 : Anthony Michael Hall, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in ...

Actors : Robyn Douglass, John Hurt, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : James Burrows,

A straight police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.

Actors : Richard Harris, Raul Julia, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In nineteenth century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal, and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves, so her father, "the king of thieves", gets the gangster arrested.

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.

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 : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James,
Directors : Robert Scheerer,

Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get ...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Aamir Khan, Supriya Pathak, Jagdeep,
Directors : Aditya Bhattacharya,

A poor, young man teams up with a burnt out cop to avenge the humiliation of his former girlfriend by a gang of goons.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.

Actors : Tom Berenger, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Daphne Zuniga,
Directors : Donald P. Bellisario,

Angela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena.

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, 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 : Ed Flanders, Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold,

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite ...