Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Ted Danson, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And ...

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 : Brynn Thayer, Chuck Norris, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran,
Directors : William Tannen,

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Thomas Crnkovich, Susan Byun, Rick Gianasi, Bill Weeden,

A streetwise New York police officer transforms into the world's most unusual superhuman hero.

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 : Michel Creton, Miou-Miou, Michel Blanc, 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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...