Best Revenge movies of 1980s

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Don Wong, Barbara Yuen, Yasuaki Kurata,

The Ninja Empire has been run by an evil master and one member decides to leave the empire. The ex-Ninja wants a Hong Kong detective to track down the new leader and end his reign of terror.

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te,
Directors : Yermek Shinarbayev,

After their son is murdered a couple raise a second son to avenge him.

Actors : Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville, Fabienne Babe,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Actors : Kin Shriner, Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Bruce Logan,

A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

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 : Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor,

Shah is the leader of the Mugal tribe in Asia; when he gets news that bandit, Razoulli and his gang are coming to launch an attack on their region, he is petrified and asks his people to ...

Actors : Gregg Henry, Jeff Conaway, Michael J. Pollard, Simone Griffeth,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons.

Actors : Grant Temple, Richard Harrison, Alphonse Beni, Stuart Smith,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

When police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he ...

Actors : David Hasselhoff, Jeanie Moore, John Saxon, Bo Hopkins,
Directors : Mario DiLeo,

A drifter and his pet Puma stands up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.

Actors : William T. Hicks, Deborah Bloodworth, Susan Bloodworth, Harris Bloodworth,
Directors : Christopher Reynolds,

In the 1920s, a man in black rides into a small Southern town to visit retribution upon the citizens who have strayed from the path of righteousness and religion. He does this, of course, by killing them in various bloody ways.

Actors : Suzanne Snyder, Season Hubley, David Birney, Susannah York,
Directors : George Kaczender,

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating ...

Actors : Elizabeth Kaitan, Stan Hurwitz, John Tyler, Rhonda Dorton,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

A schoolgirl is raped by three low-lifes, and is then blackmailed by her attackers to keep her quiet. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who promptly "takes care" ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Melissa Leo, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".

Actors : Almanta Suska, Protacio Dee, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers.

Actors : Françoise Fabian, Fanny Ardant, Mathieu Carrière, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : André Delvaux,

A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous ...

Actors : Thilakan, Madhu, Jayaram, Kamal Haasan,
Directors : Rajeev Kumar,

A man seeks the help of a mimicry artist to take revenge on a politician who has wronged him.

Actors : Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Lap Ban Chan,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost.

Actors : Julio Alemán, Nuria Bages, Pedro Fernández, Gabriela Hassel,
Directors : René Cardona III,

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the ...

Actors : Brodie Greer, Ken Abraham, George Kennedy, Ned Beatty,
Directors : Peter Maris,

Minister's family is killed by Arab terrorists, he takes revenge.