10 Darkest Crime Movies of the '80s, Ranked
If you're after dark crime movies, then classics from the 1980s like To Live and Die in L.A., Blood Simple, and Pixote have got you covered.
It’s easy to stereotype the 1980s as a sunny, flashy, colorful, vibrant, and synthpop-heavy decade. While that side of the 1980s might’ve happened in some places to some extent, and while media made since the 1980s has certainly depicted it that way, hardships were still part of that time in history, and that was reflected in a handful of very good – yet also very distressing – crime movies made between 1980 and 1989.
