1980s police films

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

1984 film directed by Michael Crichton

1987 film by Ridley Scott

1982 film directed by Damiano Damiani

1989 film by Yuen Woo-ping

1981 film directed by Peter Zinner

1981 film by Joe D'Amato

1983 film by Boris Alekseevitsj Grigorev

1987 American drama film by Michael Hoffman

1988 Tamil film directed by Mani Ratnam

1980 Tamil film directed by Rajashekar