Best Action movies of 1989

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Debi A. Monahan, Richard Cox, Brandon Lee,
Directors : BJ Davis,

Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to ...

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 : Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

A honest but disgraced Police Inspector's attempts to clear his name pits him against terrorists and the brother of his sweetheart.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Pat Morita, Jay Leno, Tom Noonan,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Actors : Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Ben Fairman, Anna Alba,
Directors : Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before ...

Actors : Claudia Angelique Rademaker, Joseph P. McGlynn, Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

The spirit of an ancient evil queen posesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.

Actors : Ryûtarô Gan, Kanako Higuchi, Shintarô Katsu, Takanori Jinnai,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Pankaj Parashar,

Twins separated at infancy are brought up differently. One weak, one strong. One day, they end up at each others house. Their life is not the same anymore.

Actors : Joe Mari Avellana, Rob Kaman, Billy Blanks, Don Wilson,
Directors : Terence H. Winkless,

Don Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the...

Actors : Yat Chor Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A Hong Kong cop and two American cops are onto a suspected harbor worker and are forced to team up when they discover that the suspect is a witness on the run from CIA agents and their schemers; two corrupt cops.

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 : John Aprea, Bruce Penhall, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

On their way to make an air delivery, two drug enforcement agents will need to do an emergency landing on a remote island, rumoured to have a gold treasure.

Actors : Ronnie Hawkins, Lorenzo Lamas, Robert Scott, Josie Bell,
Directors : George Erschbamer,

The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as...

Actors : James Brewster Thompson, Aya Enjôji, Brenda Bakke, Masahiro Takashima,
Directors : Masato Harada,

In a cyberpunk future, Kyron-5 supercomputer attempts to exterminate the human race, but Gunhed mechs stop it. In 2038, five thieves break into a condemned island facility to steal Kyron's dead CPU. The place turns out to be a deathtrap.

Actors : Mel Welles, Robert Jayne, David Carradine, Susan Lee Hoffman,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenage boy with magical powers, can restore peace to the land with the help of a bumbling elder, wizard and a hero ...

Actors : Hoi Mang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Siu Chung Mok, Lung Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a ...

Actors : Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Nina Li Chi, Dick Wei,
Directors : Hin Sing 'Billy' Tang,

Two martial artist friends from China are performing a show in the States. Trouble starts when one of them decides to defect and stay in America.

Actors : Lai-Yui Lee, Biao Yuen, Maggie Cheung, Wah Yuen,
Directors : Clarence Yiu-leung Fok,

A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he's tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Serban Ionescu, Adrian Pintea, Vlad Nemes,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

Actors : Paul L. Smith, David Carradine, Conrad Janis, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Robert Martin Carroll,

A small-town crime boss accepts delivery of a stolen car, only to find there's a baby in the back-seat. He and his transgender wife cut out the boy's tongue and raise him as a mute ...