Best Cop movies of 1980s

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 : Cochin Hanifa, Janardanan, Jagadish, Mohanlal,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Two cops tries to capture a jail-broken felon, a psychopath who seeks revenge on his adversaries, while one of the cops falls for the felon's daughter.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, Michael York, Mapi Galán,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.

Actors : Robert R. Shafer, Dan Campbell, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd,
Directors : Wallace Potts,

Six college students on their weekend vacation are humiliated and killed one by one by a psycho cop.

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Mervat Amin, Zizi Mustafa, Abdel Halim Hafez,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

Actors : Ronnie Hawkins, Lorenzo Lamas, Robert Scott, Josie Bell,
Directors : George Erschbamer,

The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Savina Gersak, Mark Hamill, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Bob Bralver,

A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin Mckay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.

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 : 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 : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Jared Martin, Adam Coleman Howard, Daphne Ashbrook, James Remar,
Directors : Clay Borris,

Joe Dylanne is a plainclothes NYC cop with a badge... and a robust personality. He always resorts to unconventional methods in order to capture the city's slickest criminals. When Dylanne ...

Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Katja Rupé, Jean-Pierre Beauviala,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Ronald L. Marchini, Jennifer Jostyn, Adam West, Meg Thayer,
Directors : Paul Kyriazi,

In the future, a cop goes after a gang of slave traders.

Actors : Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.

Actors : Barbara Cupisti, Federico Rizzo, Adriana Franceschi, Carlo Verdone,
Directors : Carlo Verdone,

Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party ...

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Perry King, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Jirí Zahajský, Blazena Holisová, Marek Brodský,
Directors : Ladislav Smoljak,

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

Actors : André van Duin, Leen Jongewaard, Manouk van der Meulen, Geert de Jong,
Directors : Dimitri Frenkel Frank,

A quack dentist is mistaken by a corrupt Dutch Colonel for one of Napoleons Inspector Generals during Napoleons occupation in 1811. What follows is a hilarious feast of similar ...

Actors : William Zipp, Robert Tessier, David Carradine, Anna Rapagna,
Directors : David A. Prior,

In the future, a cop protects a reporter from an organization of crooked, renegade cops who thinks she knows too much about them.