Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Michael Keaton, Danny Aiello III, Rae Dawn Chong, Ric Abernathy,
Directors : Roger Young,

A mysterious black box spells danger to a con man and female detective.

Actors : Andrew McCarthy, Alan Toy, Leslie Hope, Matt Dillon,
Directors : David Stevens,

A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.

Actors : Theresa Saldana, Rudy Ramos, Danny Aiello, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : John Flynn,

Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Patrick Catalifo, Michel Serrault, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their ...

Actors : Feroz Khan, Amjad Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

Actors : Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York,
Directors : John Quested,

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Actors : Mathilda May, Vincent D'Onofrio, Fernando Rey, Tony Payne,
Directors : Leonard Schrader,

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Actors : Boro Stjepanovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Nikola Simic, Miodrag Andric,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal ...

Actors : James Van Patten, Ernest Borgnine, Lynda Day George, Richard Roundtree,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ...

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Amala Akkineni, Bahadur, Anand,
Directors : Suresh Krishna,

Sathya (Kamal Hassan) is a young man who wants to make a difference and ends up becoming a henchman to a political leader who has his own agenda.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Éric Frey, Sandrine Kljajic, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Actors : Michelle Fox, Sky Nicholas, Donald Trimborn, Drew Godderis,
Directors : Donald Farmer,

As a sorority initiation, two girls have to pose as hookers. Then they turn into zombies and start killing and eating the locals.

Actors : A Martinez, Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Norbert Meisel,

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Actors : Ron Lea, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Nardo Castillo,

1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission...

Actors : Norman Fell, Greg Evigan, Pia Kamakahi, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Katt Shea,

When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. Her partner, Detective Heineman, is equally anxious to make the jump to the...

Actors : Danièle Gégauff, Sylvie Matton, Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

Actors : Susan Shaw, H.B. Halicki, Christopher Stone, Lang Jeffries,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Junkman and movie-maker Harlan Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous partner in his company hires goons to kill him. Full of amazing car chases, fantastic crashes, and edge-of-your-seat action.

Actors : Hilde Grythe, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Jon Skolmen, Ingar Helge Gimle,
Directors : Hans Otto Nicolayssen,