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1980s heist films

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A Fish Called Wanda
1988 British-American heist comedy film
Thief
1981 film by Michael Mann
Harlem Nights
1989 film directed by Eddie Murphy
Family Business
1989 film by Sidney Lumet
Johnny Handsome
1989 film by Walter Hill
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984 film by Michael Cimino, Stuart Rosenberg
No Man's Land
1987 crime film directed by Peter Werner
Short Circuit 2
1988 film by Kenneth Johnson
House of Games
1987 film directed by David Mamet
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).
City on Fire
1987 film by Ringo Lam
Olsen Gang
Danish comedy film series about a fictional criminal gang
Hold-Up
1985 film by Alexandre Arcady
Rough Cut
1980 film by Don Siegel
Happy New Year
1987 film by John G. Avildsen
Aces Go Places 2
1983 film by Eric Tsang
Lassiter
1984 film by Roger Young
Love Among Thieves
1987 television film directed by Roger Young
L.A. Takedown
1989 television film directed by Michael Mann
The Cat
1988 film by Dominik Graf
Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985 film directed by Seijun Suzuki
Qurbani
1980 Hindi film directed by Feroz Khan
Disorganized Crime
1989 film by Jim Kouf
Find and neutralize
1982 film by Georgiy Kuznetsov
High Risk
1981 film by Stewart Raffill
The Burning Train
1980 film by Ravi Chopra
Guru
1980 Tamil film directed by I. V. Sasi
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
1980 film by Alfredo Giannetti
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
1980 film by Robert Scheerer
Les Spécialistes
1985 film by Patrice Leconte
Green Ice
1981 film by Ernest Day
Treasure of the Four Crowns
1983 film by Ferdinando Baldi
The Blue Iguana
1988 film directed by John Lafia
Bankomatt
Bankomatt is a 1989 Italian-Swiss drama film directed by Villi Hermann. It was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. The story follows a man planning and conducting a bank robbery. It is revealed he was formerly an employee of the bank, and is acting out of disgruntlement towards the current boss.
Karate
1983 film by Deb Mukherjee