Best Spy & Agent movies of 1980s

Actors : Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : John McTiernan,

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Actors : Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Kim Basinger,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Actors : Roger Moore, Kristina Wayborn, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams,
Directors : John Glen,

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Maryam d'Abo, Timothy Dalton, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

Actors : Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton, Talisa Soto,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.

Actors : Sean Young, Gene Hackman, Will Patton, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : John McTiernan,

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Actors : Roger Moore, Grace Jones, Tanya Roberts, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Glen,

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Actors : Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson,
Directors : Bob Clark,

In 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Lucy Gutteridge, Val Kilmer,

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Actors : John Wood, Carol Kane, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes...

Actors : Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Directors : John Landis,

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Henry Thomas, Christina Nigra, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.

Actors : Ron Dean, Steven Seagal, Henry Silva, Pam Grier,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.

Actors : Brian Dennehy, William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A Moscow police officer investigates a triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level political conspiracy in the local government.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Actors : Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Philip Martin Brown, Stephen MacKenna, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

John Preston is a British agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the 'special relationship' between the two countries.