Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Adam Ferency, Krystyna Janda, Agnieszka Holland, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kamal Chopra, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

Two brothers are caught on the different sides of a gang war.

Actors : John Stockwell, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight High School discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and ...

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 : 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 : Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Jan Machulski, Ewa Szykulska,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

Set in Warsaw in 1930's. After six years in jail, framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, the legendary Kwinto has only revenge on his mind. He is a safecracker in the old style, a thief ...

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 : 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. ...

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 : Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, 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 : John Vernon, Johnny Venocur, Robert Dryer, Linda Blair,

A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Knepper, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Herman van Veen, Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...

Actors : Richard Brooks, Jude Ciccolella, Peter Weller, Sam Elliott,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.

Actors : Camila Griggs, Mary Louise Weller, Chuck Norris, Michael Cavanaugh,
Directors : James Fargo,

A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.

Actors : Richard Bright, Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : William Lustig,

Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a ...

Actors : Perry Lopez, Charles Bronson, James Pax, Juan Fernández,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

Actors : Pepe Serna, Gary Swanson, Season Hubley, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice...

Actors : Michel Creton, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ...