Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

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 : Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, Ying Bai, Michael Wong,
Directors : David Chung,

Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto ...

Actors : Jack Scalia, Ray Wise, R. Lee Ermey, Deborah Adair,
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 : Richard Harrison, Jang Lee Hwang, Jonathan Wattis, Maria Francesca,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers.

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ravi Chopra,

A dedicated railway employee's plan to introduce an express train result in sabotage.

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. ...

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 : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Shirley Gruar, Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

Local goon, Gerry, hires a yellow mini in Kaitaia using a stolen license. John's wife has just left him and moved to Invercargill. He is devastated and needs to talk to her. He has no ...

Actors : Megan Murphy, Ric Walker, Paul Harper, Jim Van Bebber,
Directors : Jim Van Bebber,

After one too many encounters with The Spiders (a rival gang), The Ravens' leader's girlfriend tells him to quit the gang or it's Splitsville. He does so, but the leader of The Spiders is ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Betsy Russell, Ossie Davis, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. ...

Actors : Tom Berenger, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Daphne Zuniga,
Directors : Donald P. Bellisario,

Angela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena.

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 : 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 : Asha Parekh, Amjad Khan, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Tinnu Anand,

A simple man is forced to join the criminal world.