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1980s crime comedy films

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis
A Fish Called Wanda
1988 British-American heist comedy film
The King of Comedy
1982 film by Martin Scorsese
48 Hrs.
1982 film by Walter Hill
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 film by David Zucker
Raising Arizona
1987 film by the Coen Brothers
Prizzi's Honor
1985 film by John Huston
Midnight Run
1988 film by Martin Brest
Throw Momma from the Train
1987 film directed by Danny DeVito
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 film directed by Frank Oz
Police Story
1985 film by Jackie Chan
Married to the Mob
1988 film directed by Jonathan Demme
Stakeout
1987 film by John Badham
Ruthless People
1986 film by Abrahams and Zucker
Police Story 2
1988 film by Jackie Chan
Confidentially Yours
1983 film by François Truffaut
Dragnet
1987 comedy film directed by Tom Mankiewicz
BMX Bandits
1983 film by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Clue
1985 comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn
Repo Man
1984 film by Alex Cox
Les Fugitifs
1986 film by Francis Veber
Le Guignolo
1980 film by Georges Lautner
Fletch
1985 film by Michael Ritchie
Super Fuzz
1980 film directed by Sergio Corbucci
Winners & Sinners
1983 film by Sammo Hung
Stir Crazy
1980 film directed by Sidney Poitier
City Heat
1984 film by Richard Benjamin
Les Compères
1983 film by Francis Veber
Armed and Dangerous
1986 film by Mark L. Lester
Buster
1988 film by David Green
Vabank
Vabank is a 1981 Polish comedy heist film written and directed by Juliusz Machulski, set in 1934 Warsaw (although actually filmed in Łódź and Piotrków Trybunalski).
The Umbrella Coup
1980 film by Gérard Oury
The Adventures of the Elektronic
1979 miniseries directed by Konstantin Bromberg
Johnny Dangerously
1984 film by Amy Heckerling
Flatfoot in Egypt
1980 film by Stefano Vanzina
Tough Guys
1986 film by Jeff Kanew
Hold-Up
1985 film by Alexandre Arcady
Thieves and Robbers
1983 film by Bruno Corbucci
Wise Guys
1986 television film directed by Brian De Palma
The Big Easy
1987 film by Jim McBride
Burglar
1987 film by Hugh Wilson
Crackers
1984 film by Louis Malle
Happy New Year
1987 film by John G. Avildsen
Crimewave
Crimewave is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, from a screenplay he co-wrote with the Coen brothers. It stars Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Louise Lasser and Bruce Campbell, with Campbell also serving as a co-producer. An unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy, Hitchcockian suspense, and B-movie conventions, Crimewave portrays bizarre situations involving a nebbish everyman (Birney) entangled in a murderous plot while pursuing his love interest (Wilson).
Rough Cut
1980 film by Don Siegel
A Fine Mess
1986 film by Blake Edwards
Look for a Woman
1983 film by Alla Surikova
Hanky Panky
1982 film by Sidney Poitier
The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person
1981 miniseries by Evgeny Tatarsky
A Rogue's Saga
1985 film by Viktor Tregubovich
Partners
1982 film directed by James Burrows
Going Berserk
1983 film by David Steinberg
In the Old Rhythms
1982 film directed by Mikhail Yershov
Oh! Heavenly Dog
1980 film by Joe Camp
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1988 film by Mika Kaurismäki
Presumption of Innocence
1988 film by Evgenij Markovič Tatarskij
Viuuulentemente mia
1982 film by Carlo Vanzina
The Sting II
1983 film by Jeremy Kagan
Aces Go Places 3
1984 film by Tsui Hark
...But the Olsen Gang Wasn't Dead
1984 Norwegian comedy-crime film directed by Knut Bohwim