Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

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

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

Actors : Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer,
Directors : Tony Scott,

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Tony Scott,

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.

Actors : Larry Drake, Colin Friels, Frances McDormand, Liam Neeson,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.

Actors : Bill McKinney, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

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 : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

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 : Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

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 : George 'Buck' Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Roddy Piper,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

Actors : Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Martin Kove,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.

Actors : Bobby Di Cicco, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

Actors : Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : John Glen,

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

Actors : James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.

Actors : Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh, Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.

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.