Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Sela Ward, Ronny Cox, Martin Kove, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Robert Boris,

Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.

Actors : Algis Arlauskas, Svetlana Amanova, Mikhail Kokshenov, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Directors : Leonid Gayday,

Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.

Actors : James Tien, Dean Shek, Jackie Chan, Austin Wai,
Directors : Chuan Chen,

A pair of evil gung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood. he movie opens with two members of the brotherhood and their two male children being ...

Actors : Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Ernst Günther, Håkan Serner,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were...

Actors : Rebecca Ferratti, Urbano Barberini, Donna Denton, Jack Palance,
Directors : John 'Bud' Cardos,

An Earthman returns to the planet Gor, and fights against tyranny.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Michel Creton, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars.

Actors : Art LaFleur, Biff Manard, Timothy Van Patten, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Danny Bilson,

In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.

Actors : Norman Burton, Shô Kosugi, James Booth, Donna Kei Benz,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Masako Nozawa, Hiromi Tsuru, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Kazuhisa Takenouchi,

Emperor Chiaotzu's wife has gone missing, and he is told by Master Shen that if he collects the seven dragon balls he can call upon the eternal dragon and wish for her return. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Pat Morita, Chris Sarandon, Jay Leno, Tom Noonan,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Actors : Von Gretchen Shepard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Alexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.

Actors : Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Ben Fairman, Anna Alba,
Directors : Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before ...

Actors : Amrita Singh, Nirupa Roy, Dara Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

British intelligence comes over to India and loot all its wealth and carry it over to there country. Once they were being challenge by a brave king name Raja Azaad Singh, one day he happen ...

Actors : Scott Glenn, Joe Pesci, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Élie Chouraqui,

A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Knepper, Maury Chaykin, Robert Davi,
Directors : Max Reid,

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Actors : Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington, Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Elliott Hong,

A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakakibara, Toshiko Fujita, Akiko Nakamura, Shigeru Matsuzaki,
Directors : Osamu Dezaki,

Cobra, a famous space pirate with a psycho-gun hidden in his left arm, supposed dead for two years, is back in action. He falls for bounty huntress Jane Flower, whom crime lord Necron wants dead, and tries to help her save her world.

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Daisuke Nishio,

Goku and Krillin want to be trained in the martial arts by the great Master Roshi. The only way he will agree to train them is if they go to Devil's Castle to find the Sleeping Princess, who is being held prisoner by Count Lucifer, and bring her back to his island.

Actors : Ryûtarô Gan, Kanako Higuchi, Shintarô Katsu, Takanori Jinnai,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a...