Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Fabio Testi, Rock Hudson,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader.

Actors : Ritza Brown, Mark Harmon, Luis Prendes, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

The U.S. government has been using deep caves in Central America as bases for a special type of radio transmitter used for communicating with submaries. When the signal from one of these ...

Actors : Charles Lampkin, Hiroshi Fujioka, John Calvin, Janet Julian,
Directors : J. Larry Carroll,

A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai is shipped to Los Angeles, where he comes back to life. Dazed and confused, he goes on a rampage. Can the female scientist and her colleague who revived him stop him before it's too late?

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Dennis Hopper, Gösta Ekman, Kåre Mölder,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

"The Inside Man" is based on a real-life incident during the days of the Cold War when a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish waters.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Osman Betin, Funda Firat, Kemal Özkan,

Ninjas, monster frogs, a logic film full of zombies

Actors : Cecilia Yip, Alex Man, Kien Shih, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Po-Chih Leong,

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, ...

Actors : Jing Chen, Lung Jiang, Ling Chow, Jian Huang,
Directors : Johnny Mak,

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

A chain of events changes Raja's life - from black marketer to journalist to an underworld Don and a Racketeer in order to combat Vardhan.

Actors : Emil Hossu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Dem Radulescu, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Geo Saizescu,

During the communist era in Romania, a reporter finds a incredibly well organized network of a local winery. The whole movie is a satire of the communist regimes' absurd economical and social rules.

Actors : Joe Lynn, Corinne Chateau, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cristina Lay, Linda Blair, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Ted Nicolaou,

Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Nicola Cowper, Denholm Elliott, Larry Lamb,
Directors : George Pavlou,

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds ...

Actors : Gary Watkins, Linda Grovenor, Laura Banks, Lynda Wiesmeier,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

In a postapocalyptic future, a ruthless vehicular gang called the Highway Warriors is conquering the wasteland through murder and plunder. During a raid, they kidnap the sister of a road warrior named Trace. He brings hell down upon them.

Actors : Reena Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Dharmendra,
Directors : J.P. Dutta,

Near India and Pakistan's border-town of Fatehpur, lives Ranjit Singh Choudhary who has been labeled as a rebel by his schoolmaster and his dad, Makhan's employer, Bade Thakur, as he could ...

Actors : Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Poonam Dhillon, Kamal Haasan, Madhavi,
Directors : Prayag Raj,

Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who ...

Actors : A Martinez, Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Norbert Meisel,

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Actors : Manfred Lehmann, Lewis Collins, Cristina Donadio, Klaus Kinski,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a ...