Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Tony Scott,

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.

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 : Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Kim Basinger, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

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 : Larry Drake, Colin Friels, Frances McDormand, Liam Neeson,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.

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 : Bill McKinney, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Maryam d'Abo, Timothy Dalton, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

Actors : Sean Young, Gene Hackman, Will Patton, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.

Actors : Roger Moore, Kristina Wayborn, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams,
Directors : John Glen,

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

Actors : Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton, Talisa Soto,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.

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

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

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Roddy Piper,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

Actors : Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Martin Kove,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.

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 : 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 : Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.

Actors : Bobby Di Cicco, Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

Actors : Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.

Actors : Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière, Marc Duret, Anne Parillaud,
Directors : Luc Besson,

Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.