Best Action Comedy movies of 1980s

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

Actors : Cab Calloway, John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : John Landis,

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

Actors : John Ashton, Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Actors : Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Richard Lester,

Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.

Actors : Lea Thompson, Ed Gale, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Willard Huyck,

A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.

Actors : Elisabeth Shue, Anthony Rapp, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Charles Grodin, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Elaine May,

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Actors : J.L. Reate, Charlotte Lewis, Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.

Actors : Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Hal Needham,

A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Actors : Ed O'Ross, Peter Boyle, James Belushi, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Kevin Tighe, Brion James, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond--this time, to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Steve James, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Keenen Ivory Wayans,

In this parody of blaxploitation movies, a black hero wannabe reunites former black heroes from the 70s to help him get revenge on Mr. Big.

Actors : Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.