Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Reha Yurdakul, Kemal Sunal, Zihni Göktay, Nevra Serezli,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

A poor man discovers his talent on the horse racing predictions but he is not the only one who is aware of his talent.

Actors : Fred Gwynne, Rubén Blades, Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops.

Actors : Vincent Price, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, George Segal,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Ernest 'Stick' Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, ...

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Rossano Brazzi, Patrizia Pellegrino, Venantino Venantini,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Homicidal Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo is tasked with escorting a mobster to Malta; when the prisoner escapes, Geronimo goes rogue to catch him.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Rajkumar Santoshi,

Ajay Mehra, an amateur boxer, takes revenge against Balwant Rai, a crooked businessman, after his elder brother is killed.

Actors : Ronald Allen, Al Pillay, Kevin Allen, Dave Beard,
Directors : Peter Richardson,

Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a ...

Actors : Jerry Calà, Bud Spencer, Kallie Knoetze, Stefano Mingardo,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bud "Bomber" Graziano (Bud Spencer) retired from boxing as heavyweight champion and has sworn to never fight again. While living his life on a ship he meets Jerry Cala' (Jerry Cala) who ...

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Richard Roundtree, Christopher Lee, Chuck Norris, Matt Clark,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail...

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Christophe Odent,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them ...

Actors : Nils Brandt, Siw Malmkvist, Gösta Ekman, Ulf Brunnberg,
Directors : Jonas Cornell,

The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to ...

Actors : Andy Lau, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercernaries is being assembled.

Actors : Nils Brandt, Gösta Ekman, Ulf Brunnberg, Björn Gustafson,
Directors : Mikael Ekman,

Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins ...

Actors : Gösta Ekman, Ulf Brunnberg, Björn Gustafson, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Mikael Ekman,

Criminal trio strike at furniture store, discover a secret network for shipping computers to the Soviet Union.