Best Submarine movies of 1980s

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Actors : Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : John McTiernan,

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Actors : Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Actors : Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : John Glen,

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Robert Jayne, Dabney Coleman, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Michael Lehmann,

Modeling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950's family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.

Actors : Tony King, Gioia Scola, Stefano Mingardo, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient Atlantean relic from the sea floor and ...

Actors : Jack Scalia, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair, R. Lee Ermey,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I", which has mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find...

Actors : Bill Pullman, Chris Demetral, Wendy Schaal, Ty Granderson Jones,
Directors : Mark W. Travis,

International disaster looms as the USS Sub Standard has to race to get a nuclear weapon ahead of the Russian forces.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Dennis Hopper, Gösta Ekman, Kåre Mölder,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

"The Inside Man" is based on a real-life incident during the days of the Cold War when a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish waters.

Actors : Petr Shelokhonov, Yuri Kamornyj, Andrey Rostotskiy, Pavel Ivanov,
Directors : Oleg Dashkevich,

Pravda leytenanta Klimova (aka...Lieutenant Klimov's Truth) is about a Navy Lieutenant Klimov (Rostotsky) who is in charge of the nuclear missiles on his submarine. He is also married to ...

Actors : Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Nipsey Russell, Seth Kibel,
Directors : Arnaud Sélignac,

A young boy imagines being in a tale he's about to hear. In this magical world he encounters many famous characters from other tales, aliens and other beings and, of course, a beautiful princess.

Actors : Priscilla Barnes, Daryl Haney, Bradford Dillman, Mel Ryane,
Directors : Mary Ann Fisher,

Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an elaborate undersea mining operation. ...

Actors : Terry-David Després, Lynette Louise, Maher Boutros, Alan MacGillivray,
Directors : Paul Donovan,

Follows the crew of a Canadian submarine in World War Two and their fight against the Japanese Imperial Navy.

Actors : Vladimir Sedov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Mihai Volontir, Boris Shcherbakov,
Directors : Mikhail Tumanishvili,

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

Actors : Liwei Zhang, Shikui Yan, Jing Shi, Zongyou Xia,
Directors : Bingliu Hu,

Public Security Bureau investigator Dong Fangjian is recalled from his honeymoon to track down a spy who has information on secret tests of a prototype submarine.

Actors : Cintija Asperger, Danko Ljustina, Radoslav Spitzmuller, Damir Saban,
Directors : Milivoj Puhlovski,

A commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.

Actors : Leon Askin, Stuart Whitman, Emile Beaucard, Martin Beck,
Directors : Allan Kuskowski,

A U.S. Navy submarine captain tries to prevent the Soviets from trying to launch World War III.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Yana Druz, Andrey Rostotskiy, Leonid Kulagin,
Directors : Sergey Tarasov,

A top American spy is in charge of a delicate mission. The USA plans to infiltrate several U-boats in the sea of Vladivostok, however they need the soviet surveillance satellite to stay '...

Actors : Todor Todorov, Naum Shopov, Petar Slabakov, Stoycho Mazgalov,

Five Bulgarian émigrés return to their country by submarine from the Soviet Union. They have to organize the antifascist resistance. On the shore, no one is waiting for them. They decide to...

Actors : Van Conner, Scott Renderer,
Directors : Patric Shawn O'Neill,

A mad scientist and his gang kidnap the cheerleader daughter of a guard at a nuclear power station. They need her for their experiments in "fertilichrome", a substance that will cause women to have one baby a month.