Best Assassin movies of 1980s

Actors : Joe Silver, Harvey Atkin, Mike MacDonald, Jan Smithers,
Directors : Henry Wolfond,

A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!

Actors : Lee Majors, Abe Vigoda, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Rickles,
Directors : Robert Burge,

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen, Stephen Collins, Janet Julian,
Directors : Charles Bail,

A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased.

Actors : John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley, Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

Actors : Christopher Crabb, Helen Shaver, Michael Ironside, Scott Hylands,
Directors : Don McBrearty,

A woman hires a contract-killer when her ex-husband kidnaps her son.

Actors : Lewis E. Ciannelli, Gabriele Lavia, Mimsy Farmer, Monica Guerritore,
Directors : Gabriele Lavia,

Manuel, a professional hitman, kills the hitman sent to kill him and steals his briefcase, only to find that it contains documents concerning a blackmail operation. He then travels to Italy...

Actors : Tom Dugan, Lyman Ward, Deborah Shelton, Clarence Williams III,
Directors : Shuki Levy,

A psycho who has contracted AIDS blames women for his disease, and begins to stalk and kill beautiful girls.

Actors : Kang-jo Lee, Mi-hie Jang, Wu-cheol Shin, Mi-kyeong Won,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but ...

Actors : Leslie Toth, Page Fletcher, Laura Cruickshank, Jeff Schultz,
Directors : Mitchell Gabourie,

Two city kids specializing in small-time scams are blackmailed by the police to help nail a mobster. Going undercover at a correctional resort, they meet a hit man who runs an illegal horse race.

Actors : Vera Gimenez, Otávio Augusto, Marta Anderson, Jece Valadão,
Directors : Antônio Calmon,

Zionists hire a hitman to kill a war criminal nazi who's exiled in a Latin American country, protected by the local dictator.

Actors : Liang Chen, Philip Chan, Flora Cheung, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Shing Hon Lau,

A hit man played by Chow Yun Fat is unorthodox and gruesome in this crime.

Actors : Makoto Fujita, Izumi Ayukawa, Kiyoshi Nakajyoo, Kunihiko Mitamura,
Directors : Masahisa Sadanaga,

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they must act quickly to find the culprit.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Mako, Tia Carrere, James Mitchum,
Directors : George Rowe,

A CIA agent posing as a journalist assassinates a North Vietnamese official, then escapes into the jungle, where he comes across a beautiful female spy. At first they're enemies, but come ...

Actors : Fernando Poe Jr., Coney Reyes, Fred Montilla, Rey Langit,
Directors : Fernando Poe Jr.,

Portrayed the character of the hired assassin who plots the slaying of the lead character, played by FPJ.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Govinda,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Azad(Anil Kapoor), a mob enforcer who rescues the lovely Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri) from a brothel against the orders of both his boss and a rival gang leader. He vows to help her become a ...

Actors : Chung Wang, Wei-Wei Chang, Hui Lou Chen, Chiang-Lung Wen,
Directors : Ching-Chen Yang,

Four grotesque masters of Kung Fu are destined to fight each other. Two only wish good for their people. The other two want to become the only two living masters. Thus, they hire and train an assassin to murder the others.

Actors : Clifford David, Louis Pastore, Tom Ormeny, Matt Craven,
Directors : Clark Worswick,

Now an insurance adjuster, former C.I.A. agent John Pope becomes the target of both Mafia and C.I.A. hitmen. Pope is the last of the secret agents who can ruin a money laundering ...

Actors : Cliff De Young, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Scoggins, Steven Keats,
Directors : Ruben Preuss,

A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.

Actors : Gloria Romero, Gina Alajar, Rio Locsin, Nora Aunor,
Directors : Mario O'Hara,

Yolly (Nora Aunor), a flower vendor and her brother Efren (Dan Alvaro), who works as a driver and hired assassin for a ruthless money laundering lady Connie (Gloria Romero), live a ...

Actors : Michael Kirby, Federico Muchnik, Brett Alexander, Mary Hestand,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

An absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.