Best Adventure movies of 1980s

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 : John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Actors : Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

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

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

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 : Imogene Coca, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.

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 : Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland,
Directors : Joe Johnston,

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

Actors : Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, 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 : Shelley Thompson, Toby Froud, Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie,
Directors : Jim Henson,

A 16-year-old girl is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.

Actors : Paul Hogan, David Gulpilil, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon,
Directors : Peter Faiman,

An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.

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

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

Actors : Pat Hingle, Gabriel Damon, Judith Barsi, Helen Shaver,
Directors : Don Bluth,

An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : W.D. Richter,

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

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.