Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Ray Wise, R. Lee Ermey, Deborah Adair,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I", which has mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find...

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Hoi Mang, Michelle Yeoh, John Sham,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an ...

Actors : Betsy Russell, Ossie Davis, Susan Tyrrell, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. ...

Actors : Rick Washburn, Dog Thomas, Keith Bogart, J. Christian Ingvordsen,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. ...

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Rakesh Kumar,

Two rival burglars end up at the same school with the intent of abducting a rich man's son for a large ransom.

Actors : Ellen Barber, Edward Albert, Kevin Dillon, Christine Harnos,
Directors : Ferdinand Fairfax,

A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an ambitious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Dyana Ortelli, Ross Hagen, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send ...

Actors : Cindy Beal, Elizabeth Kaitan, Brinke Stevens, Don Scribner,
Directors : Ken Dixon,

Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls ...

Actors : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : William Prince, Alberta Watson, Ken Wahl, Jeremiah Sullivan,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Actors : Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Predrag Ejdus, Vesna Stanojevic,
Directors : Aleksandar Boskovic,

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him, he wants to establish the way of his own justice. As ...

Actors : Tammy Shields, Jan Zierold, Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

When Joey's dad dies Joey is starting to act strange. He's got psychic powers. He can talk to him on the phone! His red toy telephone! But what he doesn't know is that he is not talking to ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Gene Quintano,

A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.

Actors : Kelli Maroney, Daniel Hirsch, Nicole Rio, Tom Shell,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.

Actors : Roger Moore, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince two ...

Actors : Susanna Makay, Nicole A. Gyony, Hajni Brown, Celia Farago,
Directors : Léon Paul De Bruyn,

Bizzare, often perverse yarn about nurses in a metropolitan hospital who seduce then murder male patients.

Actors : Shôzô Îzuka, Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Toshio Furukawa,

A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

Actors : Tom Berenger, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Daphne Zuniga,
Directors : Donald P. Bellisario,

Angela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena.