Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Steven M. Gagnon, Mac Davis, Tovah Feldshuh, Bruce Flanders,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Charlie Chin, Pat Ha, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Alfred Cheung,

When his wife, also working for the the police, but in a different department, is being brutally murdered, a police officer begins to investigate the case on his own. Soon he has the ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, David Beecroft, Tania Coleridge,
Directors : Ken Stein,

Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find ...

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Efremov, Sergey Nikonenko, Marina Levtova,
Directors : Eldor Urazbaev,

A stubborn traffic inspector rigidly adheres to traffic rules and gets on the wrong side of a driver.

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Kimi Katkar, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Umesh Mehra,

Inspector Verma and Havaldar Bhagwan Singh arrests Lalchand; with Bhagwan Singh loses his life in the process leaving an only son Ajay to be brought up by Verma and his wife. Years later ...

Actors : Najid Jadali, Fred Williamson, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Hoagland,
Directors : Edoardo Margheriti,

Chicago cop Robert Malone (Fred Williamson) finds himself in The Philippines, ostensibly to learn the techniques of Interpol. Before he exits the Manila airport, his wallet is stolen by a ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Leo Fong, Diane Stevenett, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Leo Fong plays a private investigator who is in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...

Actors : Tracey Huffman, Charles L. Trotter, Red Mitchell, Kent T. Johnson,
Directors : Roger Evans,

The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!

Actors : Jason Ross, John Dresden, Christine L. Tudor, Richard Young,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being ...

Actors : François Périer, Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Francis Girod,

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Abhi Bhattacharya, Vikas Anand, Master Bittoo,
Directors : Ravi Tandon,

A journalist, Mehta, on the run from Jagmohan's men, leaves an envelope with singer, Ramprasad Singh, and asks him to deliver it to Inspector J.S. Sharma at Bandra (Bomay) Police Station. ...

Actors : Romano Kristoff, Richard Harrison, Ninette Assor, Alphonse Beni,
Directors : Richard Harrison,

A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.

Actors : Pippa Guard, Dominic Guard, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

A rather loose adaptation of the P. D. James novel. Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency, is asked by the assistant of James Calendar to investigate the ...

Actors : Rati Agnihotri, J.N. Anand, Bihari, Chandrashekhar,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Inpsector John A. Mendez is an honest and diligent Police Inspector, who lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Cheryl, and a maidservant, Fatimabi. John bursts a gang that makes ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson, Tanya Lopert, Alain Souchon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.

Actors : Julissa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Guillermo Murray,
Directors : Alfredo Gurrola,

Several young women are murdered in a small community, and a detective moves in to solve the crimes.

Actors : Raj Babbar, Kader Khan, Smita Patil, Leena Das,
Directors : K. Prasad,

Geetas brother Vikram was murdered by dacoits on Raksha Bandhan day and so were his parents. Geeta turned a dacoit as Jwala to have her revenge. Inspector Sagar was assigned the task of ...

Actors : Alexandra Scicluna, Catherine Jourdan, Ingrid Caven, Michel Albertini,
Directors : Jacques Baratier,

A sultry French boarding school for girls, in the early twenties. The young pupil Lucienne evades but returns with a weird police inspector who should protect her. Against what or whom? ...

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Olga Karlatos, Gely Mavropoulou, Alberto Eskenazy,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her...

Actors : Min-hie Choi, Ahn Sung-ki, Seong-woong Lee, Mu-saeng Kim,
Directors : Tae-ho Seol,

Detective Lee hauls in ex-con Ji-shik on the hunch that he had something to do with a jewelry robbery. However, he has no evidence and is forced to let Ji-shik go free. Ji-shik, however, is...