Best Spy & Agent movies of 1980s

Actors : Ray Meagher, Ian Nimmo, John Flaus, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : John Prescott,

A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.

Actors : Natalya Vavilova, Tatyana Dogileva, Evgeniy Gerasimov, Andrey Rostotskiy,
Directors : Viktor Zhivolub,

A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Shannon Tweed, Robert Ginty, Don Gordon,
Directors : David Winters,

The wife and daughter of the president of an African state were kidnapped by terrorists. The American embassador tries to liberate them and reactivates therefore an agent who is in prison ...

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 : J.D. Cannon, Michael Ontkean, Joanna Kerns, Catherine Bach,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.

Actors : Erik Estrada, Orlando Sacha, Alfredo Álvarez Calderón, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Luis Llosa,

Fiero is hired to assassinate the newly-elected civilian president of San Pedro. His employers are a group of generals, threatened by the liberal sympathies of the new president-elect. The ...

Actors : Andy Bauman, Adam West, Lisa Alpert, Marcia Karr,
Directors : Buddy Reyes,

A champion kickboxer is hired to get back the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : Roger Paschy, John Liu, Casanova Wong, Mirta Miller,
Directors : John Liu,

Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for ...

Actors : Robin Smith, John Barrett, Jesse Vint, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Peter Mackenzie,

The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.

Actors : Liwei Zhang, Shikui Yan, Jing Shi, Zongyou Xia,
Directors : Bingliu Hu,

Public Security Bureau investigator Dong Fangjian is recalled from his honeymoon to track down a spy who has information on secret tests of a prototype submarine.

Actors : Michele Dehne, Reb Brown, Mike Monty, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Ignazio Dolce,

Reb Brown stars as a highly trained DEA agent who goes to Southeast Asia on a high-risk mission to free a drug dealer (Mike Monty) from nasty terrorists so that he can face trial back in the U.S.

Actors : James Bond III, Olivia Cole, Rodrick F. Wimberly, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Stan Lathan,

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy ...

Actors : Yana Druz, Vladimir Menshov, Andrey Rostotskiy, Leonid Kulagin,
Directors : Sergey Tarasov,

A top American spy is in charge of a delicate mission. The USA plans to infiltrate several U-boats in the sea of Vladivostok, however they need the soviet surveillance satellite to stay '...

Actors : Barbara Bingham, Charles Napier, Nina Sue Borrel, Robert Ginty,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her ...

Actors : Gila Almagor, Benyamin Armon, Chaim Hadaya, Efrat Lavie,
Directors : Dan Wolman,

Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.

Actors : Branscombe Richmond, Robert Tessier, Robert Ahola, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Ronnie Rondell Jr.,

When his family is murdered by members of a drug gang, an undercover CIA agent tracks them down, but they escape and flee to their hideout, a fortress in South America. Knowing he can't ...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Tom Alter, Abhi Bhattacharya, Yogeeta Bali,
Directors : Mangal Chakravarty,

A vessel named 'Star of Asia' sinks with 6 Crores Rupees worth of gold and diamonds. Interpol gets involved and they assign an Agent, Himadhri Choudhry, who has a sweetheart in Leena Saigol...

Actors : Terence Knox, Jamie Rose, Thom Gossom Jr., Charles Hill,
Directors : Milton Bagby,

During the American Civil War, a lonely Indiana farm widow finds love when she takes in an injured traveling salesman, only to learn he is a Confederate spy on the run from Yankee patrols.