Best Crime movies of 1980s

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 : Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into hilarious trouble.

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

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

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 : Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, 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 : Reni Santoni, Sylvester Stallone, 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 : 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, Randy Brooks, Sean Penn,
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, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo,
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 : Mike Genovese, Bert Remsen, Chuck Norris, Henry Silva,
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 : 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 : Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Jack Warden, Meg Ryan,
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 : Hans Meyer, Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, 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 : Irene Worth, Dyan Cannon, Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

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

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 : Michael J. Fox, John C. Reilly, 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 : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Julieta Serrano, Loles León,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.