Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Tetsurô Sagawa, Kôsei Tomita, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita,
Directors : Osamu Dezaki,

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an assassin-for-hire becomes the target of American soldiers and superhuman killers.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Giancarlo Giannini, Tom Conti, Coral Browne,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and ...

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 : Don Murray, Anthony Quinn, Bo Derek, Julie Newmar,
Directors : John Derek,

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Meg Foster,
Directors : William Lustig,

Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

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 : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Shaan tells the story of DCP Shiv Kumar an honest, brave and upright police man. He live in the country with his wife, a daughter and two brothers Ravi and Vijay who are con men to the ...

Actors : Baldwyn Dakile, Angelo Infanti, Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Steno,

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell...

Actors : Rory Calhoun, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation...

Actors : Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the...

Actors : Christine Murillo, Valérie Mairesse, Gordon Mitchell, Pierre Richard,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.

Actors : Jason Campbell, Brian Dennehy, Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Gary Sinise,

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Actors : Teri Garr, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Emilio Estevez, Larry B. Scott, Matthew Dudley, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

Actors : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

Four unemployed men try to impress a new neighbor. Hilarity ensues, until the antagonist puts in an appearance.

Actors : Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.

Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Alexandre Arcady,

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly ...

Actors : Carlos Sotto Mayor, Pierre Vernier, Henry Silva, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.