Best Robbery movies of 1980s

Actors : Dev Anand, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Tina Ambani,
Directors : Dev Anand,

Indian Air Force pilot Bhagat lives with his wife, Raksha, and a young son. While going to the bank one day, the family find that the bank is being held up. The bank-robbers panic at the ...

Actors : Pamela Dixon, Cynthia Miguel, Anthony Gates, Joe Verroca,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

A member of a gang of bank robbers is also cutting the throats of girls he has picked up in a club, so two female cops go on his trail.

Actors : Shreeram Lagoo, Neetu Singh, Jeetendra, Indrani Mukherjee,
Directors : Jyoti Swaroop,

Circumstances force an innocent Deepa into the life of a hardened criminal. When a gang of spoiled rich young men Sukhdev cooks up a robbery and Deepa is locked up and sentenced to a remand...

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 : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Dan Haggerty, Addison Randall, Roger Rodd,

After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind 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 : Jing Chen, Man Ting Cheung, Tien Dao, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung,
Directors : Chiu Lee,

A crippled man with an invalid son, is so greedy that he forces his wife into prostitution. Then, he makes a deal with a crime boss to pull a big heist and invites his friends from China to...

Actors : Massimo Boldi, Marisa Laurito, Enrico Montesano, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Maurizio Ponzi,

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge to investigate on a fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more ...

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Don Ameche, Tullio Moneta, Bill Maynard,
Directors : Jackson Hunsicker,

A gang of thieves has pulled a huge jewel heist, but has had to hide out in a tiny South African village posing as members of a fraternal order called The Oddballs. As they wait for their ...

Actors : Naomi Riseman, Miriam Miller, Jim O'Malley, Joe Lisi,
Directors : Edward Barbini,

A mentally impaired man is left alone on the streets of New York City after being separated from his grandmother during an attempted robbery.

Actors : Leo Gullotta, Rita Tushingham, Nino Manfredi, Rudolph Walker,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Actors : Dickson Ga-Sing Lee, Kathy Chow, Lei Wai, Kit-Man Mak,
Directors : Wah-Kei Wong,

A group of male cadets tangle with a gang of robbers before they even enter the Hong Kong Police Academy, where they are trained by a fierce police chief. They must deal with the robbers ...

Actors : Jeff Osterhage, Rick Gibbs, Robyn Lively, Will Hannah,
Directors : Juleen Compton,

Young woman joins a gang of bank robbers on her way to find the man she loves.

Actors : Joanna Bartel, Danuta Owczarek, Andrzej Chlapecki, Jerzy Cnota,
Directors : Janusz Kidawa,

Two policemen on patrol discover a pair of robbers who have broken into a TV shop and have delayed robbing the store to watch a film being broadcast. The cops too are captivated by the film...

Actors : Max H. Boulois, Peter Cushing, Claudine Auger, Hugo Stiglitz,
Directors : Max H. Boulois,

Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises.

Actors : Matthew Galle, Doris Roberts, Cady McClain, Cesar Romero,
Directors : Deborah Del Prete,

When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for...

Actors : Paul Crauchet, Sandrine Dumas, Bernard Brieux, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Alain Bonnot,

Jacqui, David and Nathalie are persuaded by a barely known little criminal to do a hold-up in a bank. But they're squealed on, just used as diversion while a group of professional criminals...

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Florinda Bolkan, Peter Firth, Paul Freeman,
Directors : Lech Majewski,

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Götz George, Otto Sander, Ulrike Krumbiegel,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Corinne Brodbeck, Silvia Aguilar, Philippe Klébert,
Directors : Max Pécas,

Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.