Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Harris, David Neidorf, Barry Corbin,
Directors : John Stockwell,

A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for another cop's death.

Actors : José Bódalo, Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta is investigating the life of a man who has apparently abandoned another man. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing ...

Actors : Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty, Bridget Hoffman, Wil Shriner,
Directors : Howard R. Cohen,

When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine, his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer (Wil Shriner), pursues him back to ...

Actors : Frankie Chan, Siu Chung Mok, Yukari Ôshima, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Frankie Chan,

Follows the exploits of two car thieves, and the female police officer who is on their trail.

Actors : Kwong Leung Wong, Stephen Chow, Ka-Kui Ho, 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 : Royal Dano, John Schneider, Federico Luppi, Kathryn Witt,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a ...

Actors : Iftekhar, C.S. Dubey, Amitabh Bachchan, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Street-wise and poor, Amar Nath makes a living selling cinema tickets and fast-food snacks (Bhel Puri) outside cinema halls. He is taken under the wing of a politician and Chair of the "...

Actors : David Franks, Bill Drummond, Jimi Cauty,
Directors : Bill Butt,

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car ...

Actors : Frederick Bailey, Cec Verrell, Joe Mari Avellana, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Madhuri Dixit, Jeetendra, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Thakur Azghar Singh lord over a small Indian village named Jalcott killing anyone standing in his way. When an honest police inspector Jagdish Chandar attempts to bring him to justice he is...

Actors : Shatrughan Sinha, Jugal Hansraj, Karan Kapoor, Dharmendra,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Honest and diligent Police Inspector Amar lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay. In his attempt to arrest bandit Sher Singh, he and Inspector Dayal are attacked, Amar survives, but ...

Actors : Berta Cabré, Bruno Cremer, Fanny Cottençon, Francisco Algora,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Violence and delinquency are Fanny's only way of life. An ex-cop known as "el Gallego" was expelled from the police force because of his irregular methods, particularly for cruelly abusing ...

Actors : Bernard Menez, Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego,
Directors : Jacques Rozier,

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another...

Actors : Piotr Machalica, Maria Pakulnis, Boguslaw Linda, Anna Romantowska,
Directors : Jacek Bromski,

The duel between a criminal on the run and a cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.

Actors : Angelyne, Peter Marc Jacobson, Lawrence Monoson, Brenda Bakke,
Directors : Marty Ollstein,

Someone is videotaping & killing members of a video dating club.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.

Actors : Stephen Chow, Vivian Chen, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Bill Tung,
Directors : Sze Yu Lau,

After police officer Paio is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his '...

Actors : Cheryl Hirshman, James McCann, Rufus Butler Seder, Eugene Seder,
Directors : Rufus Butler Seder,

A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the slayings that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.

Actors : Tiana Alexandra, Rod Steiger, David Dukes, Brian Thompson,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

A cop goes undercover in to infiltrate a drug ring as Cinderella Pu, a Chinese dancer with a unique martial arts style. An agent, who is actually at the center of the ring, is attracted by Pu and claims he can make her a star.