Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Yueh Sun, Danny Lee, Yun-Fat Chow, Carrie Ng,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store.

Actors : William 'Bo' Jim, C.B. Seay, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber ...

Actors : Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.

Actors : Taka Guadalcanal, Yuriko Ishida, Yûrei Yanagi, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Actors : Raymond Burr, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Ken Tanaka,

Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Roger Young,

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Emabassy to steal millions in gems.

Actors : Bruce Campbell, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Robert Davi,
Directors : William Lustig,

A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.

Actors : Anne-Marie Johnson, Gary Graham, Robert Sampson, Paul Koslo,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

It is post-World War III. War is outlawed. In its place, are matches between large Robots called Robot Jox. These matches take place between two large superpowers over disputed territories....

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Dennis Hopper, Paul Dooley,
Directors : Franco Amurri,

In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After Walker ...

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Franco Nero, Susan George,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Actors : Harold Diamond, Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

In Molokai, two undercover drug enforcement agents are after a vicious drug kingpin, but on the way, they will also have to deal with a contaminated giant python.

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Treat Williams,
Directors : William Tannen,

Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up ...

Actors : Marshall Napier, Hamish McFarlane, Chris Haywood, Bruce Lyons,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.

Actors : Donna Kei Benz, Scott Glenn, Atsuo Nakamura, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Peter Elliott, George Antoni, Linda Hamilton,
Directors : John Guillermin,

Kong falls from the twin towers and he appears to be alive. However, his heart is failing, so it's replaced with an artificial one. All is well until he senses that there's a female Kong somewhere out there and escapes wreaking havoc.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Scarfe, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

General Chappy Sinclair assembles a joint U.S.- Soviet strike team to take out a rogue middle eastern nuclear base.

Actors : Klaus Büchner, Andi Feldmann, Kulle Westphal, Rötger Feldmann,

Broesel has to make a Werner animation film but right now he has no real ideas for new stories. Thus he simply draws some stories from Werner's youth.

Actors : Stephen Lang, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

Juvenile lost causes are reformed by a war veteran using survival tactics.

Actors : Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Henrik H. Buljo, Nils Utsi,
Directors : Nils Gaup,

Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjudes," roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little ...