Best Action movies of 1980s

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Ernie Dingo,
Directors : John Cornell,

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Actors : Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee,
Directors : John Woo,

A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.

Actors : Tiffany Gail Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Timothy Carhart, Bernadette Peters,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

Skip tracer Tommy Nowak is tracking Lou Ann McGuinn for a bail bondsman in California. Lou Ann is also being chased by her husband Roy McGuinn and his birth right/neo-nazi friends for ...

Actors : Keith David, Basil Wallace, Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.

Actors : Norman Alden, Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, Robert Stack,
Directors : Nelson Shin,

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

Actors : Bruce Campbell, Richard Roundtree, Laurene Landon, Tom Atkins,
Directors : William Lustig,

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

Actors : Noble Willingham, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.

Actors : Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.

Actors : Joel Grey, J.A. Preston, Fred Ward, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Jenny Wright, Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Kathryn Bigelow,

A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter.

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Jennifer Balgobin, David Andrews, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Steve De Jarnatt,

In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his animatronic ...

Actors : Kevin Tighe, James Belushi, Ed O'Neill, Mel Harris,
Directors : Rod Daniel,

To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.

Actors : Darren McGavin, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Matt Salinger,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant--once partners, now bitter enemies--reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.

Actors : Powers Boothe, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez, Meg Foster,
Directors : John Boorman,

After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

Actors : Paul Shenar, Sam Wanamaker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : John Irvin,

A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.