Best Spy & Agent movies of 1980s

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Bill Cosby, Moses Gunn, Tom Courtenay,
Directors : Paul Weiland,

A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.

Actors : John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Craig T. Nelson, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the C.I.A. that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country, are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security, ...

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Gordon Hunt, Bruce Davison, Anthony Perkins, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day, prostitute by night, and accused of murder, is hounded by two men: a married father of two, and a sexually repressed preacher.

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 : 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.

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 : Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Daniel J. Travanti, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Don Adams, Rhonda Fleming, Andrea Howard,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Actors : Alexander Zale, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Gene Simmons, Rutger Hauer, Mel Harris,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

This movie features a character who is a descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall...

Actors : Doran Clark, Shô Kosugi, Bruce French, Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Directors : Eric Karson,

One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircraft, an F-111 Aardvark with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Susan George,
Directors : Terence Young,

An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the KGB and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

Actors : James Belushi, Barbara Barrie, John Ritter, Bill Morey,
Directors : Dennis Feldman,

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

Actors : Kevork Malikyan, George Murcell, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance,
Directors : James Dearden,

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Actors : Kadeem Hardison, Samuel L. Jackson, James Bond III, Bill Nunn,
Directors : James Bond III,

An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York City, and all that stands in her way, is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.

Actors : Eve Arden, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase, Joseph Maher,
Directors : Steve Rash,

A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.