Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Kara Hui, Lung Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Cheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. ...

Actors : A Martinez, Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Norbert Meisel,

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Actors : Alex Fong, Elaine Lui, Hideki Saijô, Moon Lee,

A crimefighting organization called the Angels goes up against a drug-smuggling ring headed by a female kung-fu killer.

Actors : Jasmin, Hemant Birje, Sahila Chaddha, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,

A beautiful young girl, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust.

Actors : Hema Malini, Navin Nischol, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Master Dinanath is an ex-freedom fighter. When he gets Thakur Pratap Singh arrested for arms smuggling, he has Master's wife Bharati and young daughter Priti kidnapped and also turns his ...

Actors : Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum, James W. Quinn, Rob Zapple,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Parapsychologists try to make an inn haunted by an evil witch's ghost safe for guests.

Actors : Ni Tien, Kuan Tai Chen, Tony Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chung Sun,

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

Actors : Kou Machida, Shigeru Izumiya, Michirô Endô, Takanori Jinnai,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.

Actors : Reb Brown, Michael Dante, Lou Ferrigno, Mike Moroff,
Directors : Lang Elliott,

A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) ...

Actors : Hou Hua Chen, Yi Tao Chang, Kuo Chung Ching, Chi Ping Chang,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

Skilled fighter Sung Li Ting is looking for a Kung Fu master who can beat him in battle and teach him new techniques. Shaolin monk Shao Si Yer introduces Sung Li to the Shaolin teachings, ...

Actors : Keith Carradine, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol, Valentina Vargas,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.

Actors : Rick Edwards, Barbara De Rossi, Ronn Moss, Zeudi Araya Cristaldi,
Directors : Giacomo Battiato,

Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, ...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Kôichi Hashimoto, Ryô Horikawa,
Directors : Masayuki Akehi,

Lucifer has been awakened from his slumber by Eris, Abel and Poseidon. He has come to destroy Athena and fulfill his heart's desire: becoming the strongest of all the gods.

Actors : Ritza Brown, Mark Harmon, Luis Prendes, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab ...

Actors : Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Ajit,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents ...

Actors : Dino Paskas, Dana Lis Mason, Dennis Cole, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : John Saxon,

A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.

Actors : Grant Heslov, Loryn Locklin, Matt Lattanzi, Billy Morrissette,
Directors : Stephen Sommers,

A hotshot car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure.

Actors : James Van Patten, Ernest Borgnine, Lynda Day George, Richard Roundtree,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ...

Actors : Kate Vernon, Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kaaren Lee,
Directors : John Mark Robinson,

An ex-rock and roll star teams up with a naive young man to set things right in a small town where the local thugs rule unchallenged.