Best Crime movies of 1980s

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

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Alan Tang, Pat Ha, Yun-Fat Chow, Lap Ban Chan,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

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

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Éric Frey, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kljajic,
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 : 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 : 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 : Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, 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 : Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Martin Sheen,
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 : Keith Carradine, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol, 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.