Best Assassin movies of 1980s

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 : Eric Blanc, Michel Galabru, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.

Actors : Yuen Man Meng, Alan Chung San Chui, Wilson Tong, Lily Li,

Chy Chi Chong (Man Yuen Men) is determined to become a Kung Fu Expert, yet each time he begins to train, his master is mysteriously killed. Killer bah (WIlson Tong) is a professional ...

Actors : David Chiang, Sha Chao, Chung-Kuei Chang, Ting Chao,
Directors : Hsueh Li Pao,

Historic swordplay of epic proportions tells the story about a hired assassin paid to assassinate the king

Actors : Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Dawn Zulueta, Rosemarie Gil, Suzanne Gonzales,
Directors : Jose N. Carreon,

Daniel is a hired assassin of Roman who is the leader of a criminal group. Daniel is torn between choosing to start a new life with Dolores or returning Roman's favors.

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.

Actors : Dan Kopper, Joy Curtis, Stephanie Jones, Lorraine Masterson,
Directors : David O'Malley,

The government calls one of its top agents out of retirement to battle an evil organization that is trying to put the silk industry out of business by using silkworms.

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 : Simon Yam, Jacky Cheung, Lieh Lo, Dick Wei,
Directors : Jun-Man Yuen,

Two hitmen, both good friends who work for the Triad, get a new partner, a nervous young rookie who starts off badly by blowing an assignment, but soon becomes proficient at his bloody work...

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 : 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 : 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 : Duilio Marzio, Michael Cavanaugh, Adrianne Sachs, Don Stroud,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

Jim Conrad, a reluctant hitman, is ordered to Buenos Aires to complete one last contract. The task becomes complicated when the intended victim proves to be a well-protected man accompanied...

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

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

Actors : Yoshiko Kayama, Hiroki Matsukata, Hitomi Kuroki, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Tatsuichi Takamori,

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

Actors : Jill Foors, William Zipp, Perry Hill, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Thomas Baldwin,

A teenage Eagle Scout accidentally discovers the lost plans for America's Star Wars missile defense program and soon becomes a target for a squad of ruthless industrial espionage hit men.

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 : 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 : Jacky Cheung, Patrick Tam, Joey Wang, Kenneth Tsang,
Directors : Guy Lai,

Two assassins KK (Patrick Tam, Director Of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose) and Ah Dee (Jacky Cheung, Swordsman) start a chain of revenge by executing another professional killer. KK's father...

Actors : Stanislaw Igar, Jerzy Kryszak, Jerzy Bonczak, Piotr Dejmek,
Directors : Witold Orzechowski,

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up ...