Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

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

Actors : Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, 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 : 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 : 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 : Adam Faith, Billy Murray, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Yasuo Daichi, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Peter Weller,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Robert Ginty, Deborah Geffner, Frankie Faison,
Directors : Mark Buntzman,

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Karen Young, Burt Reynolds,

Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.

Actors : Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Pablo Novak, Leonardo Sbaraglia,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the ...

Actors : Bronislaw Wroclawski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Jan Machulski,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. Imprisoned ex-banker Kramer ...

Actors : Jim Mapp, James Belushi, Robert Glaudini, John Waters,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Christopher Hewett, Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Larry Hankin,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Several shady and shallow people try to profit, one after the other, from a physically deformed teenager whose face looks like a snout of a rodent and who lives hidden in a city garbage dump, alone and miserable.

Actors : Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Mukesh, Saikumar, Rekha Mallick,

Three unemployed men find answers to all their financial problems when they decide to get involved in a kidnapping scheme.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Viktor Stepanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Markku Toikka, Esko Nikkari, Aino Seppo, Hannu Lauri,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Joe Pantoliano, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia. When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown,...