Best Crime movies of 1980s

Actors : Cinqué Lee, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yûki Kudô,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.

Actors : David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Emilio Estevez, Richard Dreyfuss, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : John Badham,

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin,

A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop.

Actors : Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Peter Medak,

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Actors : Emily Chu, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

Actors : David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Paul Shenar, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't ...

Actors : Susan Saiger, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Actors : Michael Caine, Jeffrey Jones, Ben Kingsley, Lysette Anthony,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective - Dr Watson.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Kim Miyori, Dolph Lundgren, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Mark Goldblatt,

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

Actors : J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno, Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top ...

Actors : Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Actors : John Colicos, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Robert De Niro, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Irvin,

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.