Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : László Bánhidi, Mária Goór Nagy, István Bujtor, András Kern,

This funny crime/comedy was the beginning of the Csöpi&Kardos-films (starring István Bujtor and András Kern).

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 : Jaya Prada, Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Bhagyaraj,

David is an old prisoner, released after twenty-four years in a penitentiary for a crime he hasn't committed. The three men who framed him and sent him away, are now prominent citizens of ...

Actors : Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

The young and self-confident Danny blufs at the local police-station that he will escape out of prison within one hour. What follows is a flashback about his childhood with his uncle and ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Yat Chor Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A Hong Kong cop and two American cops are onto a suspected harbor worker and are forced to team up when they discover that the suspect is a witness on the run from CIA agents and their schemers; two corrupt cops.

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : David Niven, Timothy West, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Reynolds,

Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

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 : 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 : 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 : Éva Darlan, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, Manuel Tejada, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the ...

Actors : Zeenat Aman, Shatrughan Sinha, Prem Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Vijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Kapoor (Shatrughan Sinha) are two close childhood friends. When they thought they have matured enough they decides to enter law policy: one as a ...

Actors : Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Nikolay Eryomenko, Rein Aren,
Directors : Boris Durov,

A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.

Actors : Christiane Jean, Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ...

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Savage, Arthur Hill, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his ...