Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Fedra Lorente, Máximo Valverde, Antonio Ozores, Juanito Navarro,
Directors : José Truchado,

Anibal, Mudok, Félix and M-30 are ex-members of a US Commando unit in the Vietnam War. Wanted by the police all over the world, they survive as a soldiers of fortune. This time, they are ...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, Dharmendra, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Police inspector Ajay Sharma lives a wealthy life-style with his wife Asha and two school-going children. Persistent warnings from his superiors and seniors forces him to resign from his ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, S. Balaji, Kalyan Kumar, Showkar Janaki,
Directors : R. Krishnamurthy,

Two brothers who lead diametrically opposite lives must face off when one becomes a police officer.

Actors : Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery, John Seitz, John Sayles,
Directors : Rick King,

A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is...

Actors : Pierre Curzi, Marie Tifo, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Raymond Bouchard,
Directors : Yves Simoneau,

A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.

Actors : Ivan Rogers, Tony Cecil, Brenda Banet, Eddie Beverly Jr.,
Directors : Eddie Beverly Jr.,

Roosevelt Prophet is a one-time big city cop turned private investigator. In his new calling he has acquired the most impressive moniker of "Ballbuster". The thugs that he comes in contact ...

Actors : Sarath Babu, Radhika Sarathkumar, Satyanarayana Kaikala, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : Raj Bharat,

Chiranjeevi and Sarathbabu are police officers and very close friends as well. Both of them send a very notorious criminal gang (headed by Sudharshan)to jail. Chiru later marries ...

Actors : Lillemour Jonsson, Bernard Rosselli, Thierry de Carbonnières, Jean-Marc Maurel,
Directors : Max Pécas,

When the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.

Actors : Amjad Khan, Parveen Babi, Shatrughan Sinha, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Amjad Khan,

Inspector Sunil Rana (Shatrughan Sinha) has been assigned the case of triple-homicide of the Sinha family, namely Mr. Sinha (Ashok Kumar); his son Inspector Rohan (Vinod Mehra), and Rohan's...

Actors : Annette von Klier, Stefan Meinke, Franz Buchrieser, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Peter Keglevic,

The 'Bulle' is a real tough cop. When he helps a girl being harassed by rockers she steals his car and gun in return. Wanting his stuff back, 'Bulle' follows the girl to the frontier of ...

Actors : Mario Almada, Hugo Stiglitz, Sergio Goyri, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez,
Directors : Alfredo Gurrola,

Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.

Actors : Juan Valentín, Rosenda Bernal, Noé Murayama, Álvaro Zermeño,
Directors : Ismael Rodríguez,

An undercover cop and slick con-man form an alliance against a evil and vicious drug lord who takes advantage and uses the poor people of a small village with his equally evil henchmen.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Rajan Sippy, Hema Malini, Pran,
Directors : Shibu Mitra,

A poor widowed farmer, Dharma Singh, raises two children, a boy (Karan) and a girl (Geeta) on his own in a town called Rampur, and would like his son to grow up to be a police officer. Alas...

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Maria Statulova, Stefan Danailov, Radko Dishliev,
Directors : Borislav Punchev,

World War II. Vasil is in serious conflict with the police officer Simeonov and at the same time with his childhood friend and brother by faith - the partisan Kalin. Yana comes between ...

Actors : Carter Wong, Lan Chi, Nancy Yen, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chung Wang,

A large quantity of gold is stolen from the government, so undercover martial arts constables do there detective work to find out the culprits and the whereabouts of the bullion. Awesome ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Raj Babbar, Shakti Kapoor, Smita Patil,
Directors : Ravikant Nagaich,

The Commissioner of Police is impressed with the diligence and bravery by one of his officers named Vijay, and asks him to re-locate to a lawless town by the name of Shona Pur, which Vijay ...

Actors : Ishrat Ali, Pankaj Kapur, Hema Malini, Raja Bundela,
Directors : Rajan Johri,

Tabrez Khan is an orphan who lives with the Diwakar family, which consists of Police Inspector Raj; his journalist wife, Shobha; their son, Chintoo, and Raj's brother, Devdutt. Raj is ...

Actors : David Cardoso, Vera Gimenez, David Cardoso Jr., Claudia Alencar,
Directors : Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias,

Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her...

Actors : Jim Haynie, Jurgens Doeres, Scott Paulin, Barbara Schock,
Directors : Rex Pickett,

Two loser detectives need to score a case or give it up. Finding a missing starlet leaving a trail of blackmail and murder may be too much for them.

Actors : Michelle Nicastro, Mike Jolly, Adam Baldwin, Ruth Buzzi,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

Two hotshot LAPD cops get in hot water after breaking up a fight at a local bar. They get suspended from the force and have to find a way to pay the rent. First they try construction work, ...