Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Brigitte Lin, Mark Cheng,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the ...

Actors : Fred Ward, Richard Masur, Peter Coyote, Belinda Bauer,
Directors : William Dear,

Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, ...

Actors : Carlos Sotto Mayor, Pierre Vernier, Henry Silva, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.

Actors : Cecilia Yip, Samuel Hui, Man Cheung, Jacky Cheung,

When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. Blademaster, a young martial arts expert, accidentally ends up ...

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Jim Gaines, Massimo Vanni, Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a ...

Actors : Roy Cheung, Ka-Kui Ho, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

Actors : Max Phipps, Jenny Seagrove, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Ferdinand Fairfax,

A swashbuckling adventure which takes place in the mid-1800's on the South Pacific islands where bloody raids and battles were once the rule of the day.

Actors : Valeria D'Obici, Henry Silva, Mark Gregory, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A rag-tag group of people must fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

Actors : Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J.D. Chakravarthi, Nagarjuna Akkineni,
Directors : Ram Gopal Varma,

Shiva is a new student in the community college. He is welcomed by a group of collegians, including the lovely Asha, to whom Shiva is instantly attracted. Shiva notices that there is ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior, Troy Donahue,
Directors : David A. Prior,

A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the "students" at the camp can learn how to track down and kill their prey.

Actors : Gino Samil, Magnus Nilsson, Björn Skifs, Johan Ulveson,
Directors : Jonas Frick,

Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drugpossesion. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuades" him to participate in ...

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Viktor Stepanov, Valeriy Priyomykhov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son...

Actors : Claudia Christian, Paul Satterfield, Marc Alaimo, Hamilton Camp,
Directors : Peter Manoogian,

A human becomes an unlikely rising star in the biggest fighting tournament in the galaxy that's dominated by alien species.

Actors : Vincent Price, Harry Caesar, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

In a small Tennessee town, an historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

Actors : Conan Lee, Patrick Reynolds, Denise Crosby, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Peter Manoogian,

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Actors : Rick Washburn, Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Patrick Weathers,

A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! Troma's War ...

Actors : Richard Masur, James Remar, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Jerry London,

When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug ...

Actors : Michael Horse, Matt Clark, Christopher Lloyd, Klinton Spilsbury,
Directors : William A. Fraker,

The sole surviving Texas Ranger of an ambush arranged by Butch Cavandish returns to fight back as a masked hero.