Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ...

Actors : Joe Lynn, Corinne Chateau, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Actors : Albert Au, Tin Sang Lung, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

Actors : Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, Ben Masters, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected...

Actors : Leonard Trolley, Thomas Baptiste, Joseph Olita, Geoffrey Keen,
Directors : Sharad Patel,

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Actors : Jayne Hamil, Linnea Quigley, Ginger Lynn, Karen Russell,
Directors : Rick Sloane,

Two female cops go undercover to bust a porno ring.

Actors : Amrita Singh, Farooq Shaikh, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ketan Desai,

Honest police officer Hanuman Prasad Singh lives like friend and family with a magician by the name of Ramesh Kumar. Hanuman's wife passes away after giving birth to male twin babies; upon ...

Actors : Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Sally Alice Gamble, Georgia Morgan,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

A group of women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they fail to sell the jewelry and are forced to ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Hippolyte Girardot, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Francis Girod,

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future. But since Alan doesn't ...

Actors : Paul Clemens, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

Actors : Hans Kremer, Ulrich Pleitgen, Ulrich Tukur, Therese Affolter,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and ...

Actors : Elaine Lui, Alex Fong, Hideki Saijô, Moon Lee,

A crimefighting organization called the Angels goes up against a drug-smuggling ring headed by a female kung-fu killer.

Actors : Andy Lau, Alex Man, Siu-Fung Wong, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Taylor Wong,

To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crimeand a violent war between rival gang lords.

Actors : Raffaella Baracchi, François Négret, Giancarlo Giannini, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

A disbarred lawyer (Giancarlo Giannini) is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo (Philippe Léotard). Escorting prostitute Milena (Raffaella Baracchi) impregnated by Sapo to an ...

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Robert Sacchi, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero,
Directors : Robert Day,

A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Elisabeth Depardieu, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look ...

Actors : Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Vincent Spano, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Amos Poe,

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Actors : Marco Merlo, Pio Maria Federici, Fabrizio Merlo, May Deseligny,
Directors : Antonio Climati,

Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.

Actors : Andy Lau, Alex Man, Siu-Fung Wong, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Taylor Wong,

After being released from prison, Tang Kat Yung exacts revenge on Li Ah Chai, in this sequel to Rich and Famous.