Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Sofia Roubou, Katerina Gogou,
Directors : Pavlos Tasios,

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.

Actors : Richard Bradford, Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Andréa Ferréol, Bill Duke, Valentina Vargas,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.

Actors : Yumiko Fujita, Yûya Uchida, Mie, Reiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

Actors : Paul Clemens, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

Actors : Mohsen Zaehtab, Mahmud Bigham, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they ...

Actors : Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Vincent Spano, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Amos Poe,

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Alan Bates, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Serrault, Elisabeth Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look ...

Actors : James Coburn, Ronee Blakley, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Robert Sacchi, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero,
Directors : Robert Day,

A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Claude Brasseur, Hippolyte Girardot, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Francis Girod,

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future. But since Alan doesn't ...

Actors : Markos Lezes, Kostas Palios, Giannis Vouros, Giorgos Konstadinou,
Directors : Giorgos Konstadinou,

A motley crew of small-time crooks is assembled in order to plan and execute a big-time bank heist.

Actors : László Csákányi, György Miklósy, József Székhelyi, János Gálvölgyi,
Directors : Attila Dargay,

Captain, a brave dog and police captain of the forest, must outwit his archenemy, Zero the Cat, a master of disguise and fraud, who plans to make a bundle, even if it means leaving all the forest critters homeless.

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 : Jing Chen, Lung Jiang, Ling Chow, Jian Huang,
Directors : Johnny Mak,

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

Actors : Alan Tang, Pat Ha, Lap Ban Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

A tale between two brothers: One has left the triads and gone legit, the other has decided to stay and keep the triad from going to the ways of drugs and gun running.

Actors : Albert Au, Tin Sang Lung, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.