Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Pat Ast, Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Actors : James Woods, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Whoopi Goldberg, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body ...

Actors : Richard Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Caine, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to 'level' the playing ...

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 : Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Chuck Norris,
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 : Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, George Segal, Burt Reynolds,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Barry Corbin,
Directors : Gregg Champion,

When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Emilio Estevez,

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Carrie Fisher,
Directors : Michael Winner,

When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.

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

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg wants him to do a break-in at Cardinal Wulka's in ...

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

Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. ...