Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Al White, T.P. McKenna, Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An elite Soviet Special Forces operative is handed a mission to infiltrate an African rebel army and assassinate its leader, but the war machine they trained starts to think for himself.

Actors : Keith Gordon, Richard Bradford, Helen Slater, Christian Slater,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends.

Actors : Taurean Blacque, Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Miguel Ferrer,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.

Actors : Michael Wright, Louis Gossett Jr., James Belushi, Rae Dawn Chong,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.

Actors : Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker,

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big (Joe Pesci).

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Tomas Milian, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a ...

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

An elite Navy Seals unit set out to locate and destroy a stockpile of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.

Actors : Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Keith Carradine, Franklyn Seales,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ...

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Barbara Carrera, David Carradine, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, John Turturro, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Jackie Chan, Bill Tung,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Actors : Jamie Farr, Frank Sinatra, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The original characters from the first Cannonball movie race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jackie Chan, Dick Wei,

Fighting against pirates in "old Hong Kong". Chinese costume drama with plenty of over-the-top tongue in cheek action and music.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Peter Boyle, Graham Chapman, Cheech Marin,
Directors : Mel Damski,

Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, 20, and shame ...

Actors : David Tress, Chuck Norris, Lenore Kasdorf, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.

Actors : Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, Steve James, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.

Actors : John Saxon, Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Robert Vaughn,

A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.

Actors : Perry Lopez, Charles Bronson, John P. Ryan, Kay Lenz,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.