Best Crime movies of 1980s

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Elisabete Pimenta Boaretto, Giorgio Cerioni, Gaetano Russo, Lucia Prato,

Actors : John Glover, Bill Smitrovich, Kathy Baker, Peter Weller,
Directors : David Saperstein,

The story of a widow (in West Virginia) who takes in a drifter who she believes killed her husband. She begins to fall for him but cannot be sure if she should trust him.

Actors : Janne Carlsson, Ernst Günther, Sanne Salomonsen, Björn Skifs,
Directors : Sune Lund-Sørensen,

It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ...

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon, Julie Jézéquel,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a ...

Actors : Meg Foster, Dorothée Berryman, James Brolin, June Chadwick,
Directors : Jim Kaufman,

An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Philippe Léotard, Fanny Ardant,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Miss Lotte has her residence in a big hangar near a port.She seems to be having nice time with five clients but the arrival of a policeman disturbs their lives.

Actors : Shannon Tweed, Robert Lipton, Merete Van Kamp, James Luisi,
Directors : Christian Marnham,

A promising young army cadet is raped by her commanding officer, She gets her revenge by luring him and the men who acquitted him to a remote island.

Actors : Mammootty, Sumalatha, Urvashi, Babu Namboothiri,
Directors : Joshi,

Ravi Varma, who is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife, tells his story to his wife's sister, a news reporter, about the true story of what happened.

Actors : John Nishio, Laura Burkett, Steve Rally, Allen Wisch,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza (Japanese organized crime syndicate) ring operating in the city.

Actors : Karl Maka, Samuel Hui, Nina Li Chi, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.

Actors : Ivan Desny, Bernd Stephan, Hans Beerhenke, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Wigbert Wicker,

Actors : Michel Constantin, Mario David, Véronique Jannot, Gérard Lanvin,
Directors : Jean-Claude Missiaen,

Actors : Suzanne Flon, François Dunoyer, Nathalie Baye, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

Paul kills his daughter in law Catherine to protect family honor.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Mikio Narita, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. ...

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.