Best Crime movies of 1983

Actors : Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Tom Cruise, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano,
Directors : Paul Brickman,

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

Actors : Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person until carelessness leads to tragedy.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Roy Scheider, Candy Clark, Warren Oates,
Directors : John Badham,

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Clint Eastwood, Bradford Dillman,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.

Actors : Brian Dennehy, Lee Marvin, William Hurt, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A Moscow police officer investigates a triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level political conspiracy in the local government.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Eric Gurry, Jim Moody, Reni Santoni, Sean Penn,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless, Michael Douglas, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams,
Directors : Dick Lowry,

Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge.

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 : Jerry Reed, Robin Williams, James Wainwright, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Actors : David Argue, John Ley, Angelo D'Angelo, Nicole Kidman,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Two BMX expert bikers and a friend of theirs (Kidman) become entangled with a group of bank robbers after discovering a carton of walkie-talkies.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A small time arms dealer in South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries, winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Lisa Eilbacher, Charles Bronson, Gene Davis,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...

Actors : Michel Aumont, Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Francis Veber,

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their ...

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Virgil Frye, Keith Vitali, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds...