Best Assassin movies of 1980s

Actors : Albert Janni, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Henry Silva, Franco Diogene,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A boss, recruits some professionals, to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in a guarded industrial complex. They work well, together 'killer Sterling', 'burglar Jaffe' (an expert in ...

Actors : Nick Mather, Ramya Krishnan, Monisha, Mohanlal,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Dispossessed Brahmin Mohanlal priest moves to Bombay where he finds a new calling in the hitman business.

Actors : Mel Smith, Peter Coyote, Philip Sayer, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Terry Bedford,

Thieves run over a child while escaping after a robbery. A deadly hitman who likes to taunt his targets is hired to track them down. Stone moves to England, but the assassin follows. Loosely based on Donald Westlake's cult crime novel.

Actors : Yasuhiro Shikamura, Simon Yam, Phillip Ko, Joey Wang,
Directors : Phillip Ko,

A triad assassin is sent to kill a female witness to a murder only to fall in love with her instead. A Hong Kong remake of the Japanese manga Crying Freeman.

Actors : Farha Naaz, Raaj Kumar, Shakti Kapoor, Govinda,
Directors : Mehul Kumar,

Sub-Inspector Rane is a honest and diligent Police Officer. He comes to know that a gangster by the name of P.C. Mathur is behind numerous criminal dealings and gets a warrant for his ...

Actors : Gabriele Lavia, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Mimsy Farmer, Monica Guerritore,
Directors : Gabriele Lavia,

Manuel, a professional hitman, kills the hitman sent to kill him and steals his briefcase, only to find that it contains documents concerning a blackmail operation. He then travels to Italy...

Actors : Masaki Kyômoto, Izumi Ayukawa, Makoto Fujita, Hiroaki Murakami,
Directors : Joe Hirose,

The "Hissatsu!" band of assassins gets involved in an old mansion with a secret weapon.

Actors : Clifford David, Louis Pastore, Tom Ormeny, Matt Craven,
Directors : Clark Worswick,

Now an insurance adjuster, former C.I.A. agent John Pope becomes the target of both Mafia and C.I.A. hitmen. Pope is the last of the secret agents who can ruin a money laundering ...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Govinda,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Azad(Anil Kapoor), a mob enforcer who rescues the lovely Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri) from a brothel against the orders of both his boss and a rival gang leader. He vows to help her become a ...

Actors : Kang-jo Lee, Mi-hie Jang, Wu-cheol Shin, Mi-kyeong Won,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, Christopher Barkett, Steve Barkett, Tera Hendrickson,
Directors : Steve Barkett,

A private detective searching for a killer comes across a satanic cult from another dimension, monsters called up from hell and murderous ninja assassins.

Actors : Izumi Ayukawa, Makoto Fujita, Kiyoshi Nakajyoo, Kunihiko Mitamura,
Directors : Masahisa Sadanaga,

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they must act quickly to find the culprit.

Actors : Henry Gibson, Bernadette Peters, Al Waxman, Gabe Kaplan,

Leland is suicidal, so he hires a hitman called Avocado to kill him. Code word for the hit will be "tulips". However, that's when Leland meets his suicidal soulmate Rutanya and changes his mind. Now they must try to stop Avocado.

Actors : Vera Gimenez, Otávio Augusto, Marta Anderson, Jece Valadão,
Directors : Antônio Calmon,

Zionists hire a hitman to kill a war criminal nazi who's exiled in a Latin American country, protected by the local dictator.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Mako, Tia Carrere, James Mitchum,
Directors : George Rowe,

A CIA agent posing as a journalist assassinates a North Vietnamese official, then escapes into the jungle, where he comes across a beautiful female spy. At first they're enemies, but come ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Lun Chia, Ray Lui, Wai-Man Chan,
Directors : Yang Chiang,

Hit-man arrives in Hong Kong from Holland and is given the task of eliminating three targets.

Actors : Tom Dugan, Lyman Ward, Deborah Shelton, Clarence Williams III,
Directors : Shuki Levy,

A psycho who has contracted AIDS blames women for his disease, and begins to stalk and kill beautiful girls.

Actors : Fernando Poe Jr., Coney Reyes, Fred Montilla, Rey Langit,
Directors : Fernando Poe Jr.,

Portrayed the character of the hired assassin who plots the slaying of the lead character, played by FPJ.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Hsiang Fei, Kong Chu, Suk-Lan Auyeung,
Directors : Kwok-Ming Cheung,

Cop Chow's colleague and friend Kim resigned because of manslaughter and became a professional killer. Now Chow takes charge of cases did by Kim.

Actors : Paola Senatore, Alvaro Vitali, Renzo Palmer, Gianni Ciardo,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Paola Senatore plays a doctor in a hotel where a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband ...