Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Blue Thompson, Richard Harrison, Benton Jennings,
Directors : Bret McCormick,

Escaped mass murderer goes on a rampage and is hunted by the cop who sent him up the first time.

Actors : Balduin Baas, Peter Fleischmann, Isolde Barth, Angelika Stute,
Directors : Peter Fleischmann,

A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman.

Actors : Joey Travolta, Steven Cooke, Karen Russell, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Eric Louzil,

Two detectives are out to nail a gang of teenagers who have run wild through the city and brutally raped a woman.

Actors : Rolly Quizon, Joyce Ann Burton, Dolphy, Panchito,
Directors : Ben Feleo,

Join detectives Kalabog and Bosyo in their wacky misadventures while trying to stop crimes and fight against a mad scientist who is determined to create the most powerful beast in the world.

Actors : Juan Carlos Muñoz, Jack Vacek, Joseph Jennings, Trice Schubert,
Directors : Jack Vacek,

Yet another entry in the "cop that plays by his own rules" genre. Jack Vacek is Turner, a renegade cop who purposely defies his authority by trying to expose a city-wide drug ring that takes him from Los Angeles to Mexico and back.

Actors : César Bono, Javier Batiz, Arsenio Campos, Fidel Abrego,
Directors : Víctor Manuel Castro,

A rich man hires detectives to find his long lost daughter. Once found, he hires a psychiatrist to " refine" her since she was raised in the Ghetto. But is it too late or will she "refined" them instead in the ways of the Ghetto?

Actors : Meenakshi Sheshadri, Vinod Khanna, Madhavi, Asrani,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Inspector Arjun Singh (Vinod Khanna) of Bombay Police has attained a sordid reputation of being of the most ruthless policemen in India, and is known for his torture and brutality. When a ...

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Kenneth Peerless, Don Holtz, Anthony East,
Directors : Sonny Sanders,

Deep within the tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Vietcong terrorist training camp, run by an ex green beret, william marshal. A photographer is caught spying on them and executed, but his ...

Actors : Michael James, Ming-yuk Kwan, Ken Boyle, Kwok Keung Cheung,
Directors : Kwok-Ming Cheung,

A few gossiping neighbors watch a murder through an apartment's open window. A bumbling mainland cop Lo Yau Dai is sent to investigate working undercover as a new tenant.

Actors : Shek-Ching Law, Eva Bisset, Emma Yeung, Hok Nin Lau,
Directors : Pasan Leung,

Three women captured and imprisoned by a gang of white slavers lead a bloody rebellion, aided by a detective investigating the gang.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Jackie Shroff, Sridevi, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Vijay Reddy,

Honest and diligent Forest Officer Kishan Srivastav (Jackie Shroff) and his wife Jaya (Jaya Pradha) come to the rural area of Ramgarh, and upset the criminal activities of Thakur Dayalu (...

Actors : Farha Naaz, Neelam Kothari, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda,
Directors : Ajay Kashyap,

Manu and Kanu are two con-men and petty thieves who work alone and are not known to one another. They individually decide to work for underground criminal Don "K.K.", and K.K. accepts them....

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Shayne Leith, Jane Badler, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Josh Spencer,

A bar owner/ex cop winds up in a scheme involving drug smuggling, murder, and seduction.

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Reena Roy, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Surendra Mohan,

Harimohan lives with his wife, Shanta, and a his young son named, Sunil. He works for a lecherous male, who would like to have sex with Shanta. One night while Harimohan is sent on an ...

Actors : Mahesh Anand, Seema Deo, Prem Chopra, Asrani,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Honest retired Judge Justice Deenanath live a happy life-style with his wife and two sons, advocate Ravi and inspector Sunil. One day Ravi brings home a poor girl Sharda to rehabilitate as ...

Actors : Menaka Babbar, Bob Christo, Prem Chopra, Asrani,

Darshall Lall is a gangster with many political connections. And it is for this reason that no police officer has dared to arrest Lall or any of his men. But when Public Prosecutor, Janki ...

Actors : João Bourbonnais, Paulo Copacabana, Ataíde, Péricles de Almeida,

Spoof of TV Series SWAT. Special police squad, including three clumsy policemen, goes after dangerous criminals.

Actors : Collin Cheung, Mike Abbott, Cheuk Yan Chan, Phillip Ko,
Directors : Yeung-Wah Kam,

A Hong Kong police officer's wife seeks revenge when a ruthless munitions smuggler kidnaps her daughter.

Actors : Yeqiu Du, Hongsheng Zen,
Directors : Yuqiang Zhang,

The police investigate the death of a clothing store owner.

Actors : James O'Hagen, Robert Earle, David Ralphe, Heidi Vaughn,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

Veteran police officer and his wife struggle with the danger and stress of his job. Based on a true story.