Best Cop movies of 1980s

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Dan Haggerty, Addison Randall, Roger Rodd,

After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the ...

Actors : Se-yeong Jeon, Dong-won Park, Sung-il Shin, Yu-yeong Jin,
Directors : Eung-cheon Kim,

A stunt man falls desperately in love with a detective's daughter and is willing to risk prison rather than give her up.

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Valérie Mairesse, Victor Lanoux, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Yannick Bellon,

In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not ...

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Gary Lockwood, Bubba Smith, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Beau Bridges,

A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.

Actors : Aldo Maccione, Valérie Allain, Corine Lorain, Renée Saint-Cyr,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Cesar Cappucino is a French inspector of Italian origin specialized in the fight against drugs in Nice. His best friend have been assassinated by drug injection.

Actors : Alexandre Frota, Marcos Manzano, Gretchen, Lilian Ramos,
Directors : Deni Cavalcanti,

In São Paulo, the incorruptible drug enforcement detectives Tom and Nil are investigating the deaths of call girls. Their boss Dudão is pressed by the secretary of Public Security to solve ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise in verbal gymnastics than a narrative with a mission. Esther is ...

Actors : Cassandra Gava, Isaac Hayes, Darrell Larson, Ed Marinaro,
Directors : William Vanderkloot,

Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suicidal heroin overdoses of four beautiful...

Actors : Mandakini, Sridevi, Jeetendra, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : K. Bapaiah,

Police Inspector Ram takes over charge of a police station in a crime-laden region of Bombay. He finds that whenever he attempts to arrest anyone, a gangster named Nagesh always intervenes ...

Actors : Joanna Bartel, Danuta Owczarek, Andrzej Chlapecki, Jerzy Cnota,
Directors : Janusz Kidawa,

Two policemen on patrol discover a pair of robbers who have broken into a TV shop and have delayed robbing the store to watch a film being broadcast. The cops too are captivated by the film...

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 : 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 : Paul Bettis, Pauline Carey, Keltie Creed, Lance Eng,
Directors : John Greyson,

A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ...

Actors : Ruslan Mikhnevich, Sergei Rozhevenko, Tatyana Naumova, Dzhozhef Rusnak,
Directors : Valentin Kozachkov,

In Krasnodar Krai, during the first post-WW2 years, a child's discovery of a sculpture in a cave becomes the start of a detective story, in which a group of children from a southern seaside town help to bust a gang of criminals.

Actors : Tien-Lang Li, Man-Biu Bak, Kuo-Chu Chang, James Yi Lui,
Directors : Long Jiang,

A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop ...

Actors : Farha Naaz, Raaj Kumar, Shakti Kapoor, Govinda,
Directors : Mehul Kumar,

Sub-Inspector Rane is a honest and diligent Police Officer. He comes to know that a gangster by the name of P.C. Mathur is behind numerous criminal dealings and gets a warrant for his ...

Actors : Gang Wu, Shuang Zhen, Lei Zhu, Fei Yu,
Directors : Hongsheng Zhuang,

Chinese detectives investigate an international crime ring.

Actors : David Argue, Lydia Miller, Brian Syron, Gia Carides,
Directors : Bill Bennett,

Two policemen track down and arrest a woman who has been accused of murder, and begin the trek back across the desert with her.

Actors : Jane Higginson, Alisha Das, Robert Random, Jason Williams,
Directors : Geoffrey G. Bowers,

When Reaper, the leader of a murderous biker gang, is released from prison on a technicality, he swears revenge on Wade Olson, the undercover cop who put him there. And when Reaper swears ...

Actors : Michelle Johnson, Michael Sabatino, Chad Everett, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jag Mundhra,

A dedicated middle-aged cop must find the serial killer that preys on erotic models before his estranged daughter who's also in the photo shoot business becomes the killer's next victim.