Best Training movies of 1980s

Actors : Robbie Coltrane, Janet Suzman, Camille Coduri, Eric Idle,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Brian and Charlie (B & C) work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B...

Actors : Alexandra Paul, Rae Dawn Chong, David Marshall Grant, Kevin Costner,
Directors : John Badham,

Sports physician Marcus persuades his unstable brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. Marcus doesn't tell David that he has a brain aneurysm...

Actors : Al White, T.P. McKenna, Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An elite Soviet Special Forces operative is handed a mission to infiltrate an African rebel army and assassinate its leader, but the war machine they trained starts to think for himself.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Barbara Carrera, David Carradine, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Jonathan Bowater, Penny Leatherbarrow, John Cleese,
Directors : Christopher Morahan,

An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.

Actors : Kelly Reno, Woody Strode, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Robert Dalva,

A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Robert Towne,

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

Actors : Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Taka Guadalcanal, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Actors : Stephen Lang, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

Juvenile lost causes are reformed by a war veteran using survival tactics.

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Franco Nero, Susan George,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also ...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ángela Molina, Wesley Snipes, Adrian Pasdar,
Directors : Joe Roth,

Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets ...

Actors : Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins, Christopher Burgard, Jonathan Emerson,
Directors : Patrick Sheane Duncan,

The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman.

Actors : Valentine Monnier, Michael Sopkiw, Gianni Garko, William Berger,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Actors : Kim Richards, John Mengatti, Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.

Actors : Jay O. Sanders, David Patrick Kelly, Bruce Davison, D.W. Moffett,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Nutan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

The PSO is a British oriented group who wants to take control of India. When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests there leader Dr. Michael Dang the authorities blast the jail...

Actors : Michael Pataki, Mitchell Gaylord, Janet Jones, Tiny Wells,
Directors : Albert Magnoli,

Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful ...

Actors : Michael Beach, Kevin Bacon, Bob Balaban, Barbara Barrie,
Directors : Jay Russell,

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.