Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Banjô Ginga, Toshio Furukawa, Kaneto Shiozawa, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Masayuki Ozeki,

Lupin and his gang are called to action when Goemon's fiancé is held hostage by a mysterious ninja clan.

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Amala Akkineni, Bahadur, Anand,
Directors : Suresh Krishna,

Sathya (Kamal Hassan) is a young man who wants to make a difference and ends up becoming a henchman to a political leader who has his own agenda.

Actors : Jim Kelly, Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.

Actors : Yao Lin Chen, Hark-On Fung, Fung Fung, Yeh Fang,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

The story of "Fok Yun Gap" also know as "Hou Yuan Chia" one of China's greatest marital artists.

Actors : James Tolkan, Jeff Fahey, Chad Lowe, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Frank Kerr,

Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : William Lustig,

A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Joe Lynn, Corinne Chateau, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Actors : Bjørn Sundquist, Michael Kitchen, Frank Grimes, Eindride Eidsvold,
Directors : Tristan de Vere Cole,

Deep diver Bricks has had 524 diving operations with inspecting oil installations in the deep North Sea. He and his friend is to retire. They are persuaded to a last lucrative job, When the diving bell is stuck 100 meter below sea level.

Actors : Charles R. Floyd, Mako, David Carradine, Steve James,
Directors : Gideon Amir,

Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

Actors : Hideyuki Tanaka, Akira Kamiya, Toshio Furukawa, Michiko Kawai,

Cosmo Academy has set a test for ten of its applicants to survive on a spaceship for 2 months. But there is an eleventh member aboard.

Actors : Adam West, Jennifer Jostyn, Ronald L. Marchini, Meg Thayer,
Directors : Paul Kyriazi,

In the future, a cop goes after a gang of slave traders.

Actors : Fred Williamson, Bruno Bilotta, Eva Grimaldi, Maurice Poli,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A lone cop struggles to protect a female photographer from a gang of psychopathic bikers.

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, David Essex, Beau Bridges,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : Marita Marschall, Hywel Bennett, Arnon Zadok, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Nathaniel Gutman,

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Anna Nicholas, Charlie Brill, Brett Stimely,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

When an newlywed American couple goes to India on their honeymoon, little do they realize that they were about to go on the adventure of their life time. A ruby, back from the ages of the ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

The U.S. government has been using deep caves in Central America as bases for a special type of radio transmitter used for communicating with submaries. When the signal from one of these ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuriko Yamamoto, Tarô Ishida, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Rintaro,

An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's ...

Actors : Joe Mari Avellana, Robert Marius, Rina Reyes, Don Wilson,
Directors : Andy Blumenthal,

Kickboxing champion Jake Raye thought his fighting days were over, until a call from an old friend draws him to the Far East and into the hands of a madman. This time Jake's fighting for ...

Actors : Rey Malonzo, Darby Hinton, Ken Metcalfe, Jillian Kesner,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

Femme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.