Best Spy & Agent movies of 1980s

Actors : Liwei Zhang, Shikui Yan, Jing Shi, Zongyou Xia,
Directors : Bingliu Hu,

Public Security Bureau investigator Dong Fangjian is recalled from his honeymoon to track down a spy who has information on secret tests of a prototype submarine.

Actors : Barbara Bingham, Charles Napier, Robert Ginty, Nina Sue Borrel,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Shannon Tweed, Robert Ginty, Don Gordon,
Directors : David Winters,

The wife and daughter of the president of an African state were kidnapped by terrorists. The American embassador tries to liberate them and reactivates therefore an agent who is in prison ...

Actors : Benny Bruchim, James Fargo, Peter Haskell, Brooke Bundy,
Directors : James Fargo,

Industrial espionage plot focuses on Matt's attempt to rescue his father, who knows about a valuable solar satellite microchip and is being held captive in the desert by a terrorist group that wants it.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Yana Druz, Andrey Rostotskiy, Leonid Kulagin,
Directors : Sergey Tarasov,

A top American spy is in charge of a delicate mission. The USA plans to infiltrate several U-boats in the sea of Vladivostok, however they need the soviet surveillance satellite to stay '...

Actors : Branscombe Richmond, Robert Tessier, Robert Ahola, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Ronnie Rondell Jr.,

When his family is murdered by members of a drug gang, an undercover CIA agent tracks them down, but they escape and flee to their hideout, a fortress in South America. Knowing he can't ...

Actors : Tom Alter, Mithun Chakraborty, Abhi Bhattacharya, Yogeeta Bali,
Directors : Mangal Chakravarty,

A vessel named 'Star of Asia' sinks with 6 Crores Rupees worth of gold and diamonds. Interpol gets involved and they assign an Agent, Himadhri Choudhry, who has a sweetheart in Leena Saigol...

Actors : Gila Almagor, Benyamin Armon, Chaim Hadaya, Efrat Lavie,
Directors : Dan Wolman,

Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.

Actors : Adam West, Andy Bauman, Lisa Alpert, Marcia Karr,
Directors : Buddy Reyes,

A champion kickboxer is hired to get back the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : Rick Wilson, Leo Fong, Kelly Steve, Alan Hemmings,
Directors : Timothy Ashby,

A CIA operative in Hong Kong must become a Ninja in order to retrieve a stolen Top Technical Secret Film from a Clan of Ninjas sent by the KGB.

Actors : Michele Dehne, Reb Brown, Mike Monty, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Ignazio Dolce,

Reb Brown stars as a highly trained DEA agent who goes to Southeast Asia on a high-risk mission to free a drug dealer (Mike Monty) from nasty terrorists so that he can face trial back in the U.S.

Actors : Natalya Vavilova, Tatyana Dogileva, Evgeniy Gerasimov, Andrey Rostotskiy,
Directors : Viktor Zhivolub,

A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman ...

Actors : Roger Paschy, John Liu, Casanova Wong, Mirta Miller,
Directors : John Liu,

Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for ...

Actors : Terence Knox, Jamie Rose, Thom Gossom Jr., Charles Hill,
Directors : Milton Bagby,

During the American Civil War, a lonely Indiana farm widow finds love when she takes in an injured traveling salesman, only to learn he is a Confederate spy on the run from Yankee patrols.

Actors : J.D. Cannon, Michael Ontkean, Joanna Kerns, Catherine Bach,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.

Actors : Ray Meagher, Ian Nimmo, John Flaus, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : John Prescott,

A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.

Actors : Stanislaw Igar, Jerzy Kryszak, Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Bonczak,
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 ...

Actors : Mario Romeo Milano, Anya Karin, Kathleen Conway, Pat McCormick,

Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-American Nerd and puts him where he belongs - on a top secret spy mission.