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This is a list of crime films released in the 1980s.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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1980 | ||||||
American Gigolo | Paul Schrader | Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Héctor Elizondo | United States | Crime drama[1] | ||
Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli | Canada France |
[2] | ||
Le bar du téléphone | Claude Barrois | Daniel Duval, François Périer, Georges Wilson | France | [3] | ||
Contraband | Lucio Fulci | Daniele Dublino, Ivana Monti, Fabio Testi | Italy | [4] | ||
Cruising | William Friedkin | Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen | United States | Crime thriller[5] | ||
Gloria | John Cassavetes | Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry | United States | [6] | ||
The Long Good Friday | John MacKenzie | Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Eddie Constantine | United Kingdom | [7] | ||
McVicar | Tom Clegg | Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell | United Kingdom | [8] | ||
Rough Cut | Don Siegel | Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven | United Kingdom | Crime comedy[9] | ||
Trois Hommes à Abattre | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Pierre Dux | France | Crime thriller[10] | ||
1981 | ||||||
Le Choix des armes | Alain Corneau | Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve | France | [11] | ||
Coup de Torchon | Bertrand Tavernier | Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle | France | [12] | ||
Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer | Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn | United States | [13] | ||
Deadly Brothers | Cesar Gallardo | Rudy Fernandez, Phillip Salvador | Philippines | Crime action[14] | ||
The Fan | Edward Bianchi | Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton | United States | [15] | ||
Loophole | John Quested | Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York | United Kingdom | [16] | ||
Made in Britain | Alan Clarke | Tim Roth, Eric Richard | United Kingdom | [17] | ||
Ms. 45 | Abel Ferrara | Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau | United States | [18] | ||
Pixote | Héctor Babenco | Fernando Ramos Da Silva, Jorge Juliano, Gilberto Moura | Brazil | Juvenile delinquency film[19] | ||
The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos | United States | Crime drama[20] | ||
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper | Roger Spottiswoode | Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold | United States | [21] | ||
Thief | Michael Mann | James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson | United States | [22] | ||
True Confessions | Ulu Grosbard | Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning | United States | Crime drama[23] | ||
Vabank | Juliusz Machulski | Jan Machulski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz | Poland | [24] | ||
1982 | ||||||
La Balance | Bob Swaim | Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry | France | [25] | ||
Carry On Pickpocket | Sammo Hung | Frankie Chan, Sammo Hung, Richard Ng | Hong Kong | Crime comedy[26] | ||
Le choc | Robin Davis | Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Léotard | France | [27] | ||
Class of 1984 | Mark L. Lester | Perry King, Tim Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross | Canada | Juvenile delinquency film[28] | ||
The Executioner's Song | Lawrence Schiller | Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette | United States | [29] | ||
Fanny Straw Hair | Vicente Aranda | Fanny Cottençon, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Algora | Spain France |
[30] | ||
La Garce | Christine Pascal | Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno | France | [31] | ||
Get My Son Dead or Alive | Pepe Marcos | Eddie Garcia, Rudy Fernandez, Vic Vargas | Philippines | Crime action[32] | ||
Hanky Panky | Sidney Poitier | Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan | United States | [33] | ||
Interrogation | Ryszard Bugajski | Krystyna Janda, Janusz Gajos, Adam Ferency | Poland | Prison film[34] | ||
Onimasa | Hideo Gosha | Tatsuya Nakadai, Masako Natsume, Tetsurō Tamba | Japan | [35] | ||
1983 | ||||||
10 to Midnight | J. Lee Thompson | Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens | United States | Crime thriller[36] | ||
L'Argent | Robert Bresson | Christian Patey, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet | France Switzerland |
Crime drama[37] | ||
Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Esai Morales | United States | Crime drama, prison film[38] | ||
Breathless | Jim McBride | Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano | United States | Crime drama[39] | ||
Chained Heat | Paul Nicolas | Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning | West Germany United States |
[40] | ||
Duvar | Yılmaz Güney | Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci, Malik Berrichi | France | Prison film, juvenile delinquency film[41] | ||
Moon in the Gutter | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril | France Italy |
[42] | ||
Mortelle Randonnée | Claude Miller | Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page | France | Crime thriller[43] | ||
Rue Barbare | Gilles Behat | Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Kalfon | France | [44] | ||
Scarface | Brian De Palma | Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Míriam Colón | United States | [45] | ||
1984 | ||||||
Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Swoosie Kurtz, Saul Rubinek | United States | [46] | ||
Asphalt Warriors | Sergio Gobbi | Daniel Auteuil, Marisa Berenson, Marcel Bozzuffi | France | [47] | ||
Blood Simple | Joel Coen | John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya | United States | [48] | ||
The Cotton Club | Francis Ford Coppola | Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Joe Dallesandro, Laurence Fishburne, Jennifer Grey, Woody Strode | United States | Gangster film[49] | ||
Crackers | Louis Malle | Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn | United States | [50] | ||
Fatal Vision | David Greene | Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole | United States | [51] | ||
Fear City | Abel Ferrara | Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, María Conchita Alonso | United States | [52] | ||
The Gunrunner | Nardo Castillo | Kevin Costner, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles | Canada | [53] | ||
The Hit | Stephen Frears | John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol | United Kingdom | Crime drama[54] | ||
Johnny Dangerously | Amy Heckerling | Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner | United States | [55] | ||
Once Upon A Time In America | Sergio Leone | Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Jennifer Connelly, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Burt Young, Joe Pesci, William Forsythe, Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo | United States Italy |
[56] | ||
The Pope of Greenwich Village | Stuart Rosenberg | Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah | United States | [57] | ||
Repo Man | Alex Cox | Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash | United States | Crime comedy[58] | ||
1985 | ||||||
8 Million Ways to Die | Hal Ashby | Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul | United States | [59] | ||
Crimewave | Sam Raimi | Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Louise Lasser | United States | Crime comedy[60] | ||
Détective | Jean-Luc Godard, Don Leaver | Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday | France Switzerland |
Crime drama[61] | ||
L'Homme Aux Yeux D'Argent | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Alain Souchon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson | France | [62] | ||
Kiss of the Spider Woman | Héctor Babenco | William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga | United States Brazil |
Prison film[63] | ||
On ne meurt que deux fois | Jacques Deray | Michel Serrault, Charlotte Rampling, Xavier Deluc | France | Crime thriller[64] | ||
Le Pactole | Jean-Pierre Mocky | Richard Bohringer, Pauline Lafont, Patrick Sébastien | France | [65] | ||
Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph, Michael Lombard | United States | [66] | ||
Stick | Burt Reynolds | Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning, Richard Lawson, Cástulo Guerra, Dar Robinson, Tricia Leigh Fisher | United States | [67] | ||
To Live and Die in L.A. | William Friedkin | William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow | United States | [68] | ||
Witness | Peter Weir | Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer | United States | Crime thriller[69] | ||
Year of the Dragon | Michael Cimino | Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane Koizumi | United States | [70] | ||
1986 | ||||||
52 Pick-Up | John Frankenheimer | Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity | United States | [71] | ||
Band of the Hand | Paul Michael Glaser | Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly | United States | [72] | ||
A Better Tomorrow | John Woo | Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung | Hong Kong | [73] | ||
Big Trouble | John Cassavetes | Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo | United States | Crime comedy[74] | ||
Blue City | Michelle Manning | Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso | United States | [75] | ||
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance | United States | Crime thriller[76] | ||
Comic Magazine | Yōjirō Takita | Yuya Uchida, Yumi Asō, Yoshio Harada | Japan | [77] | ||
Descente Aux Enfers | Francis Girod | Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Sidiki Bakaba | France | Crime drama[78] | ||
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | John McNaughton | Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold | United States | [79] | ||
The Hitcher | Robert Harmon | Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn | United States | Crime thriller[80] | ||
Manhunter | Michael Mann | William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen | United States | Crime thriller[81] | ||
Mauvais Sang | Leos Carax | Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche | France | [82] | ||
Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine | United Kingdom Ireland |
Crime drama[83] | ||
Out of Bounds | Richard Tuggle | Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober | United States | [84] | ||
Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime) | Yves Simoneau | Marie Tifo, Pierre Curzi, Jacques Godin | Canada France |
[85] | ||
Ruthless People | Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker | Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill Pullman | United States | Crime comedy[86] | ||
Tough Guys | Jeff Kanew | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Darlanne Fluegel, Eli Wallach, Monty Ash, Billy Barty, Graham Jarvis, Darlene Conley, Nathan Davis | United States | Crime comedy[87] | ||
Wise Guys | Brian De Palma | Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel | United States | Crime comedy[88] | ||
1987 | ||||||
A Better Tomorrow 2 | John Woo | Chow Yun-fat, Emily Chu, Waise Lee | Hong Kong | [89] | ||
Bellman and True | Richard Loncraine | Bernard Hill, Kieran O'Brien, Richard Hope | United Kingdom | [90] | ||
The Big Town | Ben Bolt | Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones | United States | Crime drama[91] | ||
City on Fire | Ringo Lam | Chow Yun-fat, Sun Yueh, Danny Lee | Hong Kong | [92] | ||
Dernier Ete A Tanger | Alexandre Arcady | Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin | France Italy |
[93] | ||
House of Games | David Mamet | Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum | United States | Crime thriller[94] | ||
Just Heroes | John Woo | Stephen Chow, Danny Lee | Hong Kong | [95] | ||
Night Zoo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Roger Le Bel, Gilles Maheu, Lynne Adams | Canada France |
Crime drama[96] | ||
No Man's Land | Peter Werner | Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, Randy Quaid | United States | [97] | ||
Prison on Fire | Ringo Lam | Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Roy Cheung | China Hong Kong |
Prison film[98] | ||
Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson | United States | Crime comedy[99] | ||
Rampage | William Friedkin | Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell | United States | [100] | ||
A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz | Poland | Crime drama[101] | ||
The Sicilian | Michael Cimino | Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland | United States | [102] | ||
Slam Dance | Wayne Wang | Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen | United Kingdom United States |
Crime drama[103] | ||
Someone to Watch Over Me | Ridley Scott | Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers | United States | Crime thriller[104] | ||
Street Smart | Jerry Schatzberg | Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman | United States | Crime drama[105] | ||
Throw Momma from the Train | Danny DeVito | Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey | United States | Crime comedy[106] | ||
The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, Billy Drago, Richard Bradford, Jack Kehoe, Clifton James | United States | [107] | ||
Wisdom | Emilio Estevez | Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright | United States | [108] | ||
1988 | ||||||
As Tears Go By | Wong Kar-wai | Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung | Hong Kong | [109] | ||
The Blue Iguana | John J. Lafia | Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, James Russo | United States | [110] | ||
Call Me | Sollace Mitchell | Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Boyd Gaines | United States | [111] | ||
De Bruit et de Fureur | Jean-Claude Brisseau | Bruno Cremer, François Négret, Vincent Gasperitsch | France | Juvenile delinquency film, crime drama[112] | ||
Deja Vu | Juliusz Machulski | Jerzy Sztur, Vladimir Golovin, Nikolai Karachentsov | Poland Soviet Union |
[113] | ||
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | Steve Martin, Michael Caine | United States | Crime comedy[114] | ||
The Drifter | Larry Brand | Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Al Shannon | United States | [115] | ||
A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline | United Kingdom United States |
Crime comedy[116] | ||
The Fruit Machine | Philip Saville | Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens | United Kingdom | [117] | ||
Kansas | David Stevens | Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope | United States | [118] | ||
L.A. Heat | Joseph Merhi | Jim Brown, Kevin Benton, Pat Johnson | United States | [119] | ||
Maniac Cop | William Lustig | Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon | United States | Crime thriller[120] | ||
Married to the Mob | Jonathan Demme | Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt, Nancy Travis, Tracey Walter, Chris Isaak, Charles Napier | United States | [121] | ||
Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting | United Kingdom | [122] | ||
Story of Women | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant | France | Crime drama[123] | ||
Tequila Sunrise | Robert Towne | Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raúl Juliá, J. T. Walsh, Arliss Howard, Budd Boetticher | United States | [124] | ||
Things Change | David Mamet | Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna | United States | [125] | ||
1989 | ||||||
Batman | Tim Burton | Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger | United States | Master criminal film[126] | ||
Les Bois Noirs | Jacques Deray | Béatrice Dalle, Stéphane Freiss, Philippe Volter | France | Crime drama[127] | ||
City War | Sun Chung | Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung | Hong Kong | Crime thriller[128] | ||
Cookie | Susan Seidelman | Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd | United States | Gangster film, crime comedy[129] | ||
Criminal Law | Martin Campbell | Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Karen Young | United States | [130] | ||
Dead Bang | John Frankenheimer | Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe | United States | [131] | ||
Disorganized Crime | M. James Kouf Jr. | Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen, Rubén Blades | United States | [132] | ||
Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch | United States | Crime drama[133] | ||
Family Business | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick | United States | [134] | ||
For Queen and Country | Martin Stellman | Denzel Washington, Amanda Redman, George Baker | United Kingdom | Crime drama[135] | ||
Harlem Nights | Eddie Murphy | Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx | United States | Crime comedy[136] | ||
Johnny Handsome | Walter Hill | Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern | United States} | [137] | ||
The Killer | John Woo | Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh | Hong Kong | [138] | ||
Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | Thomas Mogotlane, Marcel Van Heerden, Thembi Mtshali | South Africa United Kingdom |
Crime drama[139] | ||
Miracles | Jackie Chan | Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Richard Ng | Hong Kong | Crime comedy[140] | ||
Monsieur Hire | Patrice Leconte | Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier | France | Crime drama[141] | ||
Night Game | Peter Masterson | Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford | United States | [142] | ||
Relentless | William Lustig | Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi | United States | [143] | ||
Street of No Return | Samuel Fuller | Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke | France Portugal United States |
[144] | ||
Violent Cop | Beat Takeshi Kitano | Beat Takeshi Kitano, Sei Hiraizumi, Maiko Kawakami | Japan | Crime thriller[145] | ||
We're No Angels | Neil Jordan | Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore | United States | Crime comedy[146] |