Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Linden Chiles, Dawn Dunlap, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick,
Directors : Allan Holzman,

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Patti Hansen, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

Actors : Hoi Mang, Emily Chu, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan,

Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped ...

Actors : Fred Gwynne, Rubén Blades, Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops.

Actors : Frances McDormand, Mai Zetterling, Brad Dourif, Brian Cox,
Directors : Ken Loach,

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...

Actors : Donal McCann, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Actors : Kadeem Hardison, Samuel L. Jackson, James Bond III, Bill Nunn,
Directors : James Bond III,

An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York City, and all that stands in her way, is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Christophe Odent,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them ...

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, George Coe,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.

Actors : Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Ted Danson, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And ...

Actors : Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Barry Corbin,
Directors : Gregg Champion,

When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.

Actors : Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Aleksey German,

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

Actors : Rita Taggart, Lance Henriksen, Dedee Pfeiffer, Brion James,

Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of ...

Actors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercernaries is being assembled.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Knepper, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Peter Boyle, John Candy, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Jim Drake,

An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this ...

Actors : Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, ...

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Don Keith Opper, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Actors : Pepe Serna, Gary Swanson, Season Hubley, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Meg Foster,
Directors : William Lustig,

Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.