Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : John Smihula, Fred Borges, Paul Smihula, Michael Siegal,
Directors : Nathan Schiff,

A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A ...

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Myles Thoroughgood, Kevin Benton, Jim Brown,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

L.A. vice detective dreams of becoming a cowboy hero.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Zuhair Haddad, David Goss, James Mitchum,
Directors : Amir Shervan,

A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.

Actors : Kam Kong Chow, Jaclyn Chu, Billy Sau Yat Ching, Philip Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Two policemen must pretend to be a gay couple in order to investigate the murders of homosexuals in Hong Kong.

Actors : Farha Naaz, Danny Denzongpa, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : J.P. Dutta,

When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with ...

Actors : Nassar, Sukumaran, Renjini, Mohanlal,
Directors : Mohan,

A police officer tries to uncover and stop an unknown serial killer who sniped three victims and plans for a fourth one.

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Dagmar Lassander,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to...

Actors : John Nishio, Laura Burkett, Steve Rally, Allen Wisch,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza (Japanese organized crime syndicate) ring operating in the city.

Actors : Revathy, Janardanan, Sukumaran, Mohanlal,
Directors : K. Madhu,

An ex-cop helps the police force once again to free some tourists from a group of terrorists.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Sam Cook, Christopher Lee, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the...

Actors : Michel Aumont, Fanny Cottençon, Bernard Giraudeau, Fanny Bastien,
Directors : Edouard Niermans,

A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Pia Zadora, Desi Arnaz Jr., Larry Storch,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

Actors : David Heavener, Shannon Tweed, David Campbell, Erik Estrada,
Directors : David Heavener,

In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns (called "stingers") instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of...

Actors : Hugh Farrington, Ron Briskman, Denise Crosby, Michael Parks,
Directors : John G. Thomas,

A tough Arizona cop is teamed with a lesbian cop to catch a serial killer who is murdering police officers.

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Karl Maka, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Kent Cheng,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

Kidstuff has been asked by the police to investigate a case of international ammunition trade between two gangs. One of the gangs is the Japanese Yakuza in possession of stolen diamonds, ...

Actors : Kati Lázár, János Derzsi, Péter Haumann, Judit Pogány,
Directors : György Fehér,

When a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Renee Harmon, Antoine John Mottet, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : James Bryan,

An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.

Actors : Lee Majors, Abe Vigoda, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Rickles,
Directors : Robert Burge,

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate...

Actors : Steve Kanaly, Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Francis Schaeffer,

A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, and he begins to have an affair with his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community ...

Actors : Fong Lui, Paul Chun, Joey Wang, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Norman Law Man,

After a botched attempt to nab a drug smuggler in a parking garage, police detectives Ho Ting-Bon (Yun-Fat Chow) and Cheong Yan (Fong Liu) accidentally cause a runaway car to hit a young ...