Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Raul Julia, Eddie Velez, Ana Alicia, Richard Jordan,
Directors : John Duigan,

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Kris Kristofferson, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

Actors : Doug Erholtz, Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, David Jarvis,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

The screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 must investigate and stop a spree of rampaging construction robots.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Nick Dimitri, Pat Mulligan, Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer,
Directors : John Dahl,

A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ronny Cox, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Bob Clark,

An unconventional cop who doesn't take any bull, is paired up with an amazing detective to capture some powerful criminals but the cop soon realizes that his by the book partner has split personality disorder.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Kemal Sunal, Nazan Saatçi, Ali Sen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

Actors : Hoi Mang, Emily Chu, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan,

Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped ...

Actors : Grace De Capitani, Philippe Noiret, Régine, Thierry Lhermitte,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Rene is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. When his partner retires, he must team up ...

Actors : Lara Harris, D.B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Peter Werner,

A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Dianne Wiest, Peter Falk, Emily Lloyd,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

Paroled labor racketeer "Dapper" Dino is sought after by a "politically ambitious" prosecutor schemes to put him back in jail and a deceitful partner sizes him up for concrete shoes.

Actors : John Vernon, Tamara Dobson, Linda Blair, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

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...

Actors : Robert Picardo, Jim Haynie, James Spader, Cynthia Gibb,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him.

Actors : Mitchell Lichtenstein, Michael Wright, David Alan Grier, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.

Actors : Victor Arnold, Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Sandy Alexander,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Two New York cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Gene Hackman, Randy Moore, Matt Dillon,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.

Actors : Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Daniel Vigne,

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.