Best Revenge movies of 1980s

Actors : Brodie Greer, George Kennedy, Ken Abraham, Ned Beatty,
Directors : Peter Maris,

Minister's family is killed by Arab terrorists, he takes revenge.

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Rajinikanth, Danny Denzongpa, Sridevi,
Directors : J. Om Prakash,

Naive village-born Swaroop comes to Bombay city with a only Rs.80/-, which he loses to a thief. A man named Bhagwaan helps Swaroop recover this amount, and asks him to return back to his ...

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Charles Napier, Ronny Cox, John Matuszak,
Directors : Dale Trevillion,

In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner

Actors : Charles Napier, Katherine Kelly Lang, Robert Viharo, Michelle Reese,
Directors : Max Kleven,

A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Actors : Jayne Hutton, Heath Porter, Shirley Jane Harris, Tanya Gordon,
Directors : John Bernard,

The ghost of a serial killer, executed for murdering students at a Catholic girls' school, returns to the school to take revenge on the current student body.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, Rex Harrison,

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo, Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Tatsuo Nadaka, Yûko Tanaka, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Cher Butler, Richard Roundtree, Anthony Geary, Jim Brown,
Directors : Michael Fischa,

Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an...

Actors : Bert Sotlar, Boris Kralj, Stevo Zigon, Radko Polic,
Directors : Vojko Duletic,

Based on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a family returns to the family home to take revenge on his father who had abandoned him as a child.

Actors : Stephen Moore, Juan Chapa, Myra, Stack Pierce,
Directors : Leo Fong,

There are two plots in this movie and oddly enough, they don't intersect. One plot follows the revenge of a martial artist whose husband is killed. The other follows two cops who like to ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Poonam Dhillon, Jeetendra,

Diwan and Bhagail Singh kill Kanwar for his property. In the confusion that follows Kanwars wife Laajvanti and her sons Shankar and Ravi are separated. Shankar drifts around in search of ...

Actors : Humberto Elizondo, Gregorio Casal, Diana Ferreti, Eduardo Yáñez,
Directors : Rubén Galindo,

It's about a group of bad guys who kill his family and thought to kill him, but guessed wrong and came back with a vengeance and hunts them one by one

Actors : Corrie Huyser, Elize Lizamore, Elzette Maarschalk, Magda Beukes,
Directors : Daan Retief,

A woman and her two daughters are all in the hospital business but one particular woman has her revenge claws in for them for a thing that happened a long time ago

Actors : Suzzanna, H.I.M. Damsyik, Paul Hay, Eddy Gunawan,
Directors : Sisworo Gautama Putra,

Young Samson sees his mother murdered by a soldier from the Netherlands. His grandfather sends him supernatural powers and makes him invulnerable. All grown up Samson is ready for revenge ...

Actors : Greg Joujon-Roche, Robert D. Peverley, Annie Mikan, Lisa Elaina,
Directors : Dominick Brascia,

A child is convinced his grandfather is a monster and kills him. Years later he returns with his friends to the sight of the killing. It appears to be his grandfather's revenge as one by one his friends are brutally murdered.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi,
Directors : Umesh Mehra,

Honest and dedicated Police Inspector Kumar Chandra Singh intercepts a bank robbery, and is in the process of arresting the bank robbers, when he himself becomes a suspect, and is ...

Actors : Suzanne Andrews, Howard Vernon, Fernando Rey, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical ...

Actors : Usha Naik, Ashok Saraf, Nilu Phule,
Directors : Anant Mane,

An ongoing vendetta between two political groups threatens the peace.