Best Assassin movies of 1980s

Actors : Lee Majors, Abe Vigoda, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Rickles,
Directors : Robert Burge,

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate...

Actors : John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley, Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen, Stephen Collins, Janet Julian,
Directors : Charles Bail,

A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased.

Actors : Joe Silver, Harvey Atkin, Mike MacDonald, Jan Smithers,
Directors : Henry Wolfond,

A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!

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 : 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 : Gloria Romero, Gina Alajar, Nora Aunor, Rio Locsin,
Directors : Mario O'Hara,

Yolly (Nora Aunor), a flower vendor and her brother Efren (Dan Alvaro), who works as a driver and hired assassin for a ruthless money laundering lady Connie (Gloria Romero), live a ...

Actors : Simon Yam, Jacky Cheung, Lieh Lo, Dick Wei,
Directors : Jun-Man Yuen,

Two hitmen, both good friends who work for the Triad, get a new partner, a nervous young rookie who starts off badly by blowing an assignment, but soon becomes proficient at his bloody work...

Actors : Chung Wang, Wei-Wei Chang, Hui Lou Chen, Chiang-Lung Wen,
Directors : Ching-Chen Yang,

Four grotesque masters of Kung Fu are destined to fight each other. Two only wish good for their people. The other two want to become the only two living masters. Thus, they hire and train an assassin to murder the others.

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 : Cliff De Young, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Scoggins, Steven Keats,
Directors : Ruben Preuss,

A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.

Actors : Stanislaw Igar, Jerzy Kryszak, Jerzy Bonczak, Piotr Dejmek,
Directors : Witold Orzechowski,

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up ...

Actors : Leslie Toth, Page Fletcher, Laura Cruickshank, Jeff Schultz,
Directors : Mitchell Gabourie,

Two city kids specializing in small-time scams are blackmailed by the police to help nail a mobster. Going undercover at a correctional resort, they meet a hit man who runs an illegal horse race.

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 : Liang Chen, Philip Chan, Flora Cheung, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Shing Hon Lau,

A hit man played by Chow Yun Fat is unorthodox and gruesome in this crime.

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 : 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 : Christopher Crabb, Helen Shaver, Scott Hylands, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Don McBrearty,

A woman hires a contract-killer when her ex-husband kidnaps her son.

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 : Jill Foors, William Zipp, Perry Hill, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Thomas Baldwin,

A teenage Eagle Scout accidentally discovers the lost plans for America's Star Wars missile defense program and soon becomes a target for a squad of ruthless industrial espionage hit men.