Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Bronson Pinchot, Stuart Pankin, Bess Armstrong, John Larroquette,
Directors : Joel Zwick,

John Larroquette is the head of a detective agency that is hired to find a missing person, probably kidnapped. They employ the help of a mystic/psychic to help find the missing girl.

Actors : Yat Chor Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A Hong Kong cop and two American cops are onto a suspected harbor worker and are forced to team up when they discover that the suspect is a witness on the run from CIA agents and their schemers; two corrupt cops.

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Aamir Khan, Supriya Pathak, Jagdeep,
Directors : Aditya Bhattacharya,

A poor, young man teams up with a burnt out cop to avenge the humiliation of his former girlfriend by a gang of goons.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Claudia Christian, Eli Danker, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : Stan Winston,

A Los Angeles police detective partners up with a talking gnome in order to bring down the head of a crime ring.

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Vijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Kapoor (Shatrughan Sinha) are two close childhood friends. When they thought they have matured enough they decides to enter law policy: one as a ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Peter Zinner,

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Jean Carmet, Evelyne Bouix, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Actors : John Schneider, Kirk Douglas, Lisa Dunsheath, Lee Purcell,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Karl Maka, Samuel Hui, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

Black Gloves (Joe Dimmick), a European Assassin, is seeking to avenge his brother White Gloves' death against reformed criminal King Kong (Samuel Hui) and Detective Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl ...

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Notorious criminal Pasha has been imprisoned by the former Inspector General of Police, Shrikant Mathur. To get out of the situation, he writes to his best man, Jackie. Jackie goes to ...

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Patrick Fierry, Fanny Bastien, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Gérard Jugnot,

First film (as director) of , this movie is a simple and tender story of a little policemen... See full synopsis »

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Sudhir Mishra, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

When a starlet is murdered on a film location, her detective brother arrives there to solve the mystery.

Actors : Christiane Jean, Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Ken Boyle, Siu-Ho Chin, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ngai Choi Lam,

A young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. As a result, the cop is damned with seven "Blood ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Judge Reinhold, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in...

Actors : Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Danny Aiello III, Ric Abernathy,
Directors : Roger Young,

A mysterious black box spells danger to a con man and female detective.