Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Pam La Testa, Victoria Dryden, Caroline Capers Powers, Roger Neil,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

Murder victim's spirit reaches out from beyond the grave in an attempt to possess the body of a young woman who has moved into his old apartment.

Actors : Idy Chan, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan,

Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Tina Ambani, Nutan,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Kidnapped at a very young age, two twin brothers are separated from there respective mother. One grows up with a criminal and industrialist Gama Matten alias Chinoy and the other works for ...

Actors : Ritva Valkama, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Hannele Lauri, Pentti Siimes,
Directors : Ere Kokkonen,

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Joseph Campanella, Teri Copley, John Matuszak,
Directors : Robert C. Hughes,

A crooked lawyer brings together some of the clients he's gotten off and schemes to rob a bank vault. However, after the robbery, he discovers that the "goods" he's stolen is actually a top-secret microchip that foreign powers are after, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

Actors : Tiana Alexandra, Rod Steiger, Brian Thompson, David Dukes,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

A cop goes undercover in to infiltrate a drug ring as Cinderella Pu, a Chinese dancer with a unique martial arts style. An agent, who is actually at the center of the ring, is attracted by Pu and claims he can make her a star.

Actors : Sergi Mateu, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Actors : Robby Benson, Elsa Lanchester, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A San Francisco cab driver finds himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased all over town by people trying to get the formula.

Actors : James Wilder, Henry Thomas, Errol Slue, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Mikio Narita, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. ...

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Olga Mashnaya, Andrei Zykov, Valeriy Priyomykhov,
Directors : Dinara Asanova,

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Mathieu Carrière, Vicky Peña,
Directors : Félix Rotaeta,

Actors : Krista Errickson, Luca Bercovici, Michael Bowen, Zach Galligan,
Directors : Andrew Lane,

A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Chiklis, David Beecroft, Tania Coleridge,
Directors : Ken Stein,

Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find ...

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Lambert Wilson, Tchéky Karyo, Agnès Soral,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Actors : Julianne Phillips, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Tiny Ron,
Directors : Beau Bridges,

A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Paco Fabrini,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Rhonda Bell, Elion Sucher,
Directors : James Benning,

In "Landscape Suicide" Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims ...