Best Revenge movies of 1980s

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Mario Van Peebles, Lance Guest, Karen Young,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kimberly Ross,
Directors : Stan Winston,

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

Actors : Chris Haywood, Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.

Actors : Keith David, Basil Wallace, Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Actors : Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.

Actors : Dennis Hopper, Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Actors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Tomorô Taguchi,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.

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, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Terence Stamp,
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 : Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction...

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Lorraine De Selle, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Actors : Marie-Christine Descouard, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

Actors : Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, George Maharis, Simon MacCorkindale,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage's dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.

Actors : Dean Shek, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Actors : George Dzundza, Stephen Baldwin, Steven Bauer, Jason Patric,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Howard Ross, Almanta Suska, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Actors : Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh,
Directors : Lance Hool,

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.