Best Assassin movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Albert Janni, Henry Silva, Dalila Di Lazzaro, 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 : Houshang Touzie, Saeed Rajai, Mary Apick, Parviz Sayyad,
Directors : Parviz Sayyad,

An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lyman Ward, Tom Dugan, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Michael Kirby, Federico Muchnik, Brett Alexander, Mary Hestand,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

An absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.

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

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

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, Tera Hendrickson, Steve Barkett,
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 : Lewis E. Ciannelli, Gabriele Lavia, 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...