Best Robbery movies of 1980s

Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Lambert Wilson, Claude Piéplu, Isabelle Gélinas,
Directors : Patrice Ambard,

To flee his very invasive mother, young divorced IT engineer Remi, rents a housing to an old woman. The latter turns out to be a formidable bank robber.

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 : 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.

Actors : Leena Chandavarkar, Vinod Khanna, Nirupa Roy, Pran,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Vinod Khanna rescues the purse of a pretty girl, Leena chandavarkar which was robbed by two robbers. Vinod & Leena meet and fall in love. One night, a dead body is found in Leena's room and...

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 : Mithun Chakraborty, Bindiya Goswami, Chandrashekhar, Leena Das,
Directors : S.K. Kapur,

Mohan, a singer is framed for a murder and his father, who is an honest cop, is also framed for a series of diamond heists. Will they be able to prove their innocence before it's too late?

Actors : Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Darla Haun, Mitchell Cox, Scott Galloway,
Directors : Phillip J. Roth,

When a snowboard instructor uncovers clues to a high stakes robbery, he finds himself in a high speed gun fight with his life on the line. He realizes he is the one pinned for murder and ...

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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson, Tanya Lopert, Alain Souchon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.

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 : Vladimir Jurc, Zlatko Sugman, Matjaz Tribuson, Jonas Znidarsic,
Directors : Jure Pervanje,

A thief commits daring robberies (a la Raffles) in Slovenia during the 1920s. While he romances the ladies a persistent detective tries to hunt him down and bring him to justice.

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 : Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Jon English, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Peter Maxwell,

Touch and Go is a 1980 Australian heist film starring Wendy Hughes.

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

Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946

Actors : François Cluzet, Sandrine Bonnaire, Laura Favali, Marie-France Santon,
Directors : Olivier Langlois,

Angele kills the bank robber who has taken her as hostage and deposits the money. The police and a privat eye of the insurance compnay are suspicious. Leslie, the girlfriend of the robber, ...

Actors : Armando Silvestre, Lina Michel, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Gerardo Reyes,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

While serving time in prison, an Argentinean gangster tries to unify the members of an Italian gang known as the "Mariachis" with the objective of making future robberies more fruitful then...

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 : 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 : 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 ...