Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Nick Nolte, Patrick O'Neal, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Irvin,

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Bill Tung,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Actors : Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A murdered detective must avenge his murder after he is reincarnated as a dog.

Actors : Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

Actors : David Niven, Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the...

Actors : Allison Balson, James Woods, Victoria Tennant, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : John Flynn,

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right,...

Actors : Darren McGavin, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Treat Williams,
Directors : Mark Goldblatt,

Two policemen are brought back to life to chase down supernatural criminals.

Actors : Randy Jones, Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Felipe Rose,
Directors : Nancy Walker,

This is a pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.

Actors : James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Haid,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : John Candy, Robert Loggia, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Makoto Ashikawa, Maiko Kawakami, Takeshi Kitano, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Actors : Dean Shek, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Actors : Esmond Knight, Michael Elphick, Jerold Wells, Me Me Lai,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.

Actors : Brian Benben, Matthias Hues, Betsy Brantley, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst ...

Actors : Carlin Glynn, John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Actors : Harris Yulin, Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Tom Holland,

Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics police officer with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of "Fatal Beauty"...