Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Jean-Pierre Malo, Pierre Vernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Beaune,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.

Actors : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : Ellen Barber, Edward Albert, Kevin Dillon, Christine Harnos,
Directors : Ferdinand Fairfax,

A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an ambitious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.

Actors : Roger Moore, Elliott Gould, Rod Steiger, Art Carney,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince two ...

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Michelle Yeoh, Hoi Mang, John Sham,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an ...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Dyana Ortelli, Ross Hagen, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send ...

Actors : Tammy Shields, Jan Zierold, Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

When Joey's dad dies Joey is starting to act strange. He's got psychic powers. He can talk to him on the phone! His red toy telephone! But what he doesn't know is that he is not talking to ...

Actors : Éva Darlan, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Biao Yuen, Roy Chiao, Melvin Wong,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Gene Quintano,

A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.

Actors : Shôzô Îzuka, Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Toshio Furukawa,

A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

Actors : Kelli Maroney, Daniel Hirsch, Nicole Rio, Tom Shell,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Doo Hee Jang, Ho Kon Kim, Eddy Ko,
Directors : John Woo,

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves ...

Actors : Cindy Beal, Elizabeth Kaitan, Brinke Stevens, Don Scribner,
Directors : Ken Dixon,

Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls ...

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair, R. Lee Ermey,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I", which has mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find...

Actors : Susanna Makay, Nicole A. Gyony, Hajni Brown, Celia Farago,
Directors : Léon Paul De Bruyn,

Bizzare, often perverse yarn about nurses in a metropolitan hospital who seduce then murder male patients.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Rakesh Kumar,

Two rival burglars end up at the same school with the intent of abducting a rich man's son for a large ransom.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in ...

Actors : Rick Washburn, Dog Thomas, Keith Bogart, J. Christian Ingvordsen,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. ...