Best Gangster movies of 1980s

Actors : John Nishio, Laura Burkett, Steve Rally, Allen Wisch,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza (Japanese organized crime syndicate) ring operating in the city.

Actors : Ilmari Saarelainen, Kauko Helovirta, Matti Mäntylä, Sari Sarmas,
Directors : Visa Mäkinen,

A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang...

Actors : John Weiner, Johnny Stumper, David Henry Keller, Jake LaMotta,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

When the New York City police disrupt a big cocaine deal, the TV news reporters find John Falcone, a local mobster, nearby. They ask some tough questions, and Falcone decides he needs a ...

Actors : Marcel van Heerden, Thembi Mtshali, Dolly Rathebe, Thomas Mogotlane,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand ...

Actors : Peter Maffay, Bernard Freyd, Tahnee Welch, Massimo Ghini,
Directors : Peter Patzak,

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The...

Actors : Paolo Bonacelli, Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is suddenly ...

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 : Frederick Bailey, Cec Verrell, Joe Mari Avellana, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.

Actors : K. Balaji, Rajinikanth, Surulirajan, Sridevi,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A parsimonious Barbar must flee from the Police after meeting with a look-alike gangster.

Actors : Anna Samokhina, Valentin Gaft, Boris Shcherbakov, Vladimir Steklov,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Actors : Hisamitsu Nakamura, Kenichi Kobayashi, Ken Takakura, Ayumi Ishida,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

Actors : Stephen Chow, Fui-On Shing, Wai-Man Chan, Vivian Chow,
Directors : Parkman Wong,

Ruthless gangster Guts pulls off a heist of diamonds, then enlists the aid of longtime triad member, Fei, to arrange a buyer for them. But when Guts double crosses the buyer, Fei ends up with the diamonds, wanted by both the cops and Guts.

Actors : Dana Christina, Craig Gavin, Lia Warokka, Peter O'Brian,
Directors : Jopi Burnama,

The Intruder is an Indonesian revenge film inspired by the movie Rambo. It's about man named Rambu, a lone vigilante who goes after a mob that had killed his wife.

Actors : Ove Sprogøe, Michael Falch, Ole Ernst, Line Knutzon,
Directors : Sune Lund-Sørensen,

A womanizing reporter investigates death of his friend in Copenhagen's sporting district and the detective finds himself caught between clunky ordeals of police and gangsters involved in drug trafficking.

Actors : Ken Bones, Derek Newark, Richard Hope, Bernard Hill,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Talia Balsam, Paul Le Mat, Clayton Rohner,
Directors : Nigel Dick,

A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.

Actors : Lee Majors, Abe Vigoda, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Rickles,
Directors : Robert Burge,

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate...

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 : Cameron Mitchell, Zuhair Haddad, David Goss, James Mitchum,
Directors : Amir Shervan,

A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.