Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, Shawn von Schreiber, James Naughton,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

The 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker...

Actors : Valérie Mairesse, Gérard Lanvin, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Hervé Palud,

Actors : Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders,
Directors : Peter Richardson,

While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any ...

Actors : Athina Tsilyra, Yorgos Rigas, Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

George is a young and handsome man who only cares about motorcycles, discos, girls. When he realizes that he cannot go on living in poverty, he decides to rob his own father (Spiros ...

Actors : Sven Wollter, Ernst Günther, Pia Green, Anita Wall,
Directors : Kjell Sundvall,

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up ...

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 : Alex Fong, Elaine Lui, 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 : Rudolf Hrusínský, Jirí Zahajský, Marek Brodský, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Ladislav Smoljak,

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

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 : Judge Reinhold, Maureen Mueller, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Maurice Phillips,

Enid is horrible, her husband and younger sister are having an affair. When Enid walks in on them 'enjoying' themselves, she is furious. A fight develops and Enid is hit over the head with ...

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 : Tomislav Gotovac, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Zoran Tadic,

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes ...

Actors : Béatrix Van Til, Claudia Cardinale, Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Abu Bakr Ezzat, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Salah Abdallah,
Directors : Atef E-Taieb,

After his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...

Actors : Paul Shenar, Ben Masters, Justin Deas, 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 : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Steve Antin, Anthony Geary, Ric Mancini,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.

Actors : Pierre Romans, Zbigniew Horoks, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Christian de Chalonge,

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France ...

Actors : Mako, David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Lois Hamilton,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to ...