Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Bahadur, Amala Akkineni, Anand,
Directors : Suresh Krishna,

Sathya (Kamal Hassan) is a young man who wants to make a difference and ends up becoming a henchman to a political leader who has his own agenda.

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Jesse Aragon, Rene Auberjonois, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Larry Gross,

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln ...

Actors : Danièle Gégauff, Sylvie Matton, Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

Actors : A Martinez, Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Norbert Meisel,

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Actors : Kevin Kindlin, Sueanne Seamens, Terrie Godfrey, Mark V. Jevicky,
Directors : S. William Hinzman,

A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.

Actors : Hilde Grythe, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Jon Skolmen, Ingar Helge Gimle,
Directors : Hans Otto Nicolayssen,

Actors : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Actors : Michelle Fox, Sky Nicholas, Donald Trimborn, Drew Godderis,
Directors : Donald Farmer,

As a sorority initiation, two girls have to pose as hookers. Then they turn into zombies and start killing and eating the locals.

Actors : Susan Shaw, H.B. Halicki, Christopher Stone, Lang Jeffries,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Junkman and movie-maker Harlan Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous partner in his company hires goons to kill him. Full of amazing car chases, fantastic crashes, and edge-of-your-seat action.

Actors : Ron Lea, Paul Soles, Sara Botsford, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Nardo Castillo,

1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission...

Actors : Norman Fell, Greg Evigan, Pia Kamakahi, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Katt Shea,

When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. Her partner, Detective Heineman, is equally anxious to make the jump to the...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Éric Frey, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kljajic,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Actors : Matthew Wong, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Joey Wang, Waise Lee,

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of ...

Actors : Boro Stjepanovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Nikola Simic, Miodrag Andric,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal ...

Actors : Mathilda May, Vincent D'Onofrio, Fernando Rey, Tony Payne,
Directors : Leonard Schrader,

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Actors : Lino Troisi, Lino Ventura, Arnoldo Foà, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo...

Actors : Zoltán Basilides, István Avar, István Bujtor, András Kern,
Directors : István Bujtor,

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Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Amala Akkineni, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

The story of Dayavan, a benevolent gangster who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate then himself.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Martin Sheen,
Directors : John Quested,

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.