Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally ...

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 ...

Actors : Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Julie McCullough, Danielle Brisebois,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Judge Reinhold, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in...

Actors : Jeremy Pattnosh, Madonna, Charles Kurtz, Kate Magill,
Directors : Stephen Jon Lewicki,

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

Actors : Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Stacey Nelkin, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Jeremy Joe Kronsberg,

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

Actors : Roger Lebel, Corrado Mastropasqua, Gilles Maheu, Lorne Brass,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lauzon,

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long...

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Andrea Guzon, Ursula Buchfellner, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A newlywed couple in love finds a seemingly desolate place to park the car and make love. Soon, they will face prison's cruel reality.

Actors : Barbara Rudnik, Sue Tauber, Andreas Vitásek, Christian Schmidt,

Private detective Max Müller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime but find themselves in strange bars and women.

Actors : Pierre Mondy, François Périer, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Jason Miller, Fernando Rey, Geneviève Bujold, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Actors : Nicole Garcia, John Lydon, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Mann,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City flat.

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suchitra, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,

Enroute Madras via train, when three friends get falsely accused of a mysterious homicide, they escape and desperately search for the real killer.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raj Kiran, Dimple Kapadia, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Arjun Malvankar after his graduation thrives to get job. The corruption and injustice taking place in his community frustrates him to the extent of revolting with the help of some of his ...

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 : 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 : Heinz Hoenig, Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer,
Directors : Dominik Graf,

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

Actors : Cesare Ferretti, Roberto Stani, Michela Mioni, Enzo Di Benedetto,
Directors : Claudio Caligari,

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.