Best Robbery movies of 1980s

Actors : Harold Diamond, Robert Z'Dar, Joselito Rescober, Jim Brown,
Directors : Amir Shervan,

Walking jawline Tony Stone (Robert D'Zar), is a tough criminal with questionable recruitment criteria for his henchmen. After he and his goons pull off a heist at a surprisingly ...

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 : Mel Smith, Peter Coyote, Philip Sayer, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Terry Bedford,

Thieves run over a child while escaping after a robbery. A deadly hitman who likes to taunt his targets is hired to track them down. Stone moves to England, but the assassin follows. Loosely based on Donald Westlake's cult crime novel.

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 : Hidde Maas, Jack Monkau, Annick Christiaens, Josse De Pauw,
Directors : Bobby Eerhart,

An isolated farmhouse is chosen as a hide-out by Jim and Charlie after an armed robbery. The Deleye family are forced to accept the situation under Jim's brutal domination. Badly wounded ...

Actors : Hiroshi Fujioka, Cynthia Khan, Michiko Nishiwaki, Sai-Kit Yung,

Genji Nakamura and his soul-mate and partner Michiko Nishiwaki are thieves for the notorious Red Army terrorist organization in Japan. After pulling off the jewelry heist of the century (in...

Actors : Joop Doderer, Ron Brandsteder, Toon Agterberg, Manouk van der Meulen,
Directors : Hans Scheepmaker,

De Cock & Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.

Actors : Vinny Argiro, Julie Ariola, Joe Dallesandro, Willi Baronet,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

An innocent bystander goes on a vendetta against a bank robber.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Carme Elias, Patxi Andión, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Lluís Josep Comerón,

A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in an apartment, tied to a bomb. The ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Wendy Hughes, Dennis Miller, John Hargreaves,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

True story about a jailed bank robber who pretends he's become blind to get an early release. Cops don't believe him, but a lonely minister's wife arrives to teach him how to live with his "condition". They fall in love. Big mistake.

Actors : Spiros Focás, Giorgos Moshidis, Mimi Denissi, Alexis Damianos,
Directors : Dimitris Stavrakas,

An ex-prisoner, a betrayal and a robbery that goes south.

Actors : John Polson, Chris Haywood, Vincent Ball, Russell Kiefel,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi,
Directors : Umesh Mehra,

Honest and dedicated Police Inspector Kumar Chandra Singh intercepts a bank robbery, and is in the process of arresting the bank robbers, when he himself becomes a suspect, and is ...

Actors : Apollonia Kotero, Luke Askew, Todd Field, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Kincade,

Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alicia Moro, James Wall, Gaspar Cano,
Directors : Philippe Blot,

After two bank robbers take hostages, one of them anally rapes the Bank Cashier and then tries raping the bank manager Sylvia. The other robber is Ricardo, the bank president's son and ...

Actors : Bin Zhang, Yingjie Hu, Qun Wang, Xida Li,
Directors : Tianhong Gao,

Once upon a time there was young Yang Luchan, degraded into slavery and robbery, who at last became the Yang Tai Chi master... this is his story.

Actors : Anna Maria Rizzoli, Raf Luca, Giorgio Bracardi, Annie Belle,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

An Italian Baron, helped by aspiring actress, organizes a robbery on a train. The shot is successful, but the money will be invested badly and so they will put to work another plan.

Actors : Ram Mohan, Birbal, Kader Khan, Jagdeep,
Directors : Harmesh Malhotra,

Village belle Durga lives a fairly peaceful existence, until her gypsy father gets in the bad books of Thakur Dharampal Singh, and is severely beaten. He joins a band of robbers and takes ...

Actors : Christine Shinn, Sean Holton, Deke Anderson, Douglas Harter,
Directors : David A. Prior,

Two ruthless criminals take two teenage couples hostage at a remote mountain cabin in Colorado following a botched bank robbery.

Actors : Tao Chiang, Lun Chia, Ming-fat Chan, Chun-Pao Chen,
Directors : Chin-Lai Sung,

In Hong Kong, and later Thailand, a band of four robbers steal and kill, as their fiercely loyal leader sticks to his principles.