Best Assassin movies of 1980s

Actors : Phillip Ko, Ray Lui, Lun Chia, Wai-Man Chan,
Directors : Yang Chiang,

Hit-man arrives in Hong Kong from Holland and is given the task of eliminating three targets.

Actors : Paola Senatore, Alvaro Vitali, Renzo Palmer, Gianni Ciardo,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Paola Senatore plays a doctor in a hotel where a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband ...

Actors : Richard Harrison, Christopher Barkett, Tera Hendrickson, Steve Barkett,
Directors : Steve Barkett,

A private detective searching for a killer comes across a satanic cult from another dimension, monsters called up from hell and murderous ninja assassins.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Izumi Ayukawa, Makoto Fujita, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ka-Yan Leung, Hsiang Fei, Kong Chu, Suk-Lan Auyeung,
Directors : Kwok-Ming Cheung,

Cop Chow's colleague and friend Kim resigned because of manslaughter and became a professional killer. Now Chow takes charge of cases did by Kim.

Actors : Masaki Kyômoto, Izumi Ayukawa, Makoto Fujita, Hiroaki Murakami,
Directors : Joe Hirose,

The "Hissatsu!" band of assassins gets involved in an old mansion with a secret weapon.

Actors : Henry Gibson, Bernadette Peters, Al Waxman, Gabe Kaplan,

Leland is suicidal, so he hires a hitman called Avocado to kill him. Code word for the hit will be "tulips". However, that's when Leland meets his suicidal soulmate Rutanya and changes his mind. Now they must try to stop Avocado.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Gloria Romero, Gina Alajar, Nora Aunor, Rio Locsin,
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 ...