Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Kevin Tighe, Eddie Murphy, Brion James,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond--this time, to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.

Actors : Chloe Webb, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Actors : Jack Nicholson, Madeleine Stowe, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.

Actors : Jennifer Connelly, Virginia Madsen, Charles Martin Smith, Don Johnson,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

When the drifter Harry Madox reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes...

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Steve James, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Keenen Ivory Wayans,

In this parody of blaxploitation movies, a black hero wannabe reunites former black heroes from the 70s to help him get revenge on Mr. Big.

Actors : Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance,

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Tracey Ullman, William Hurt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

Joey owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalie. He's also a serial womanizer. Rosalie goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Sean Penn, Randy Brooks,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Actors : Hans Meyer, Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Leos Carax,

Marc (Michel Piccoli) recruits Alex (Denis Lavant), son of his former, now dead colleague. Alex is a card shark with a big dream to go out to the world and leave his own mark. His ...

Actors : Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Sean Connery, Jack Warden,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A San Francisco civilian police detective is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer while dating his daughter.

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Christopher Reeve, Irene Worth, Michael Caine,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Actors : Sonny Landham, Sylvester Stallone, John Amos, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Flynn,

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

Actors : Bert Remsen, Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Mike Genovese,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Actors : John C. Reilly, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Actors : John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, Peter Weller,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.

Actors : Djiby Soumare, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.