Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, David Beecroft, Tania Coleridge,
Directors : Ken Stein,

Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find ...

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 : 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.

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 : 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 : Andrew Stevens, Joseph Campanella, Teri Copley, John Matuszak,
Directors : Robert C. Hughes,

A crooked lawyer brings together some of the clients he's gotten off and schemes to rob a bank vault. However, after the robbery, he discovers that the "goods" he's stolen is actually a top-secret microchip that foreign powers are after, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

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

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.

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 : Julianne Phillips, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Tiny Ron,
Directors : Beau Bridges,

A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Mathieu Carrière, Vicky Peña,
Directors : Félix Rotaeta,

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Idy Chan, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan,

Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Actors : Franco Nero, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses...

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Krista Errickson, Michael Bowen, Zach Galligan, Luca Bercovici,
Directors : Andrew Lane,

A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.