Best Robbery movies of 1980s

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 : Patrick Bruel, Charles Gérard, Jean Yanne, Marie-Sophie L.,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed ...

Actors : Eiko Nagashima, Silvia Aguilar, Lautaro Murúa, Paul Naschy,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese ...

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 : 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 : Simone Griffeth, Bryan Marshall, Steve Marachuk, Peter McCauley,
Directors : Dennis C. Lewiston,

Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.

Actors : Kwong Leung Wong, Ka-Kui Ho, Stephen Chow, Danny Lee,
Directors : Parkman Wong,

A cop relies on a young car thief to take down four gangsters, who plan to rob a rich merchant for a large amount of money.

Actors : Matthew Galle, Doris Roberts, Cady McClain, Cesar Romero,
Directors : Deborah Del Prete,

When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for...

Actors : Shreeram Lagoo, Neetu Singh, Jeetendra, Indrani Mukherjee,
Directors : Jyoti Swaroop,

Circumstances force an innocent Deepa into the life of a hardened criminal. When a gang of spoiled rich young men Sukhdev cooks up a robbery and Deepa is locked up and sentenced to a remand...

Actors : Paul Crauchet, Sandrine Dumas, Bernard Brieux, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Alain Bonnot,

Jacqui, David and Nathalie are persuaded by a barely known little criminal to do a hold-up in a bank. But they're squealed on, just used as diversion while a group of professional criminals...

Actors : Massimo Boldi, Marisa Laurito, Enrico Montesano, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Maurizio Ponzi,

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge to investigate on a fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more ...

Actors : Dickson Ga-Sing Lee, Kathy Chow, Lei Wai, Kit-Man Mak,
Directors : Wah-Kei Wong,

A group of male cadets tangle with a gang of robbers before they even enter the Hong Kong Police Academy, where they are trained by a fierce police chief. They must deal with the robbers ...

Actors : Dev Anand, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Tina Ambani,
Directors : Dev Anand,

Indian Air Force pilot Bhagat lives with his wife, Raksha, and a young son. While going to the bank one day, the family find that the bank is being held up. The bank-robbers panic at the ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Corinne Brodbeck, Silvia Aguilar, Philippe Klébert,
Directors : Max Pécas,

Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.

Actors : Naomi Riseman, Miriam Miller, Jim O'Malley, Joe Lisi,
Directors : Edward Barbini,

A mentally impaired man is left alone on the streets of New York City after being separated from his grandmother during an attempted robbery.

Actors : Jeff Osterhage, Rick Gibbs, Robyn Lively, Will Hannah,
Directors : Juleen Compton,

Young woman joins a gang of bank robbers on her way to find the man she loves.

Actors : Leo Gullotta, Rita Tushingham, Nino Manfredi, Rudolph Walker,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Don Ameche, Tullio Moneta, Bill Maynard,
Directors : Jackson Hunsicker,

A gang of thieves has pulled a huge jewel heist, but has had to hide out in a tiny South African village posing as members of a fraternal order called The Oddballs. As they wait for their ...

Actors : Max H. Boulois, Peter Cushing, Claudine Auger, Hugo Stiglitz,
Directors : Max H. Boulois,

Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises.

Actors : Jing Chen, Man Ting Cheung, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Tien Dao,
Directors : Chiu Lee,

A crippled man with an invalid son, is so greedy that he forces his wife into prostitution. Then, he makes a deal with a crime boss to pull a big heist and invites his friends from China to...