Best Revenge movies of 1980s

Actors : Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Lap Ban Chan,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost.

Actors : Elizabeth Kaitan, Stan Hurwitz, John Tyler, Rhonda Dorton,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

A schoolgirl is raped by three low-lifes, and is then blackmailed by her attackers to keep her quiet. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who promptly "takes care" ...

Actors : Françoise Fabian, Fanny Ardant, Mathieu Carrière, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : André Delvaux,

A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous ...

Actors : Tien-Lang Li, Chu-kwong Chan, Hussein Abu Hassan, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Keith Li,

A crazed evil wizard uses his powers to take revenge on beautiful women by making them vomit up live centipedes, which then proceed to eat their victims.

Actors : Jayaram, Madhu, Thilakan, Kamal Haasan,
Directors : Rajeev Kumar,

A man seeks the help of a mimicry artist to take revenge on a politician who has wronged him.

Actors : Sing Chen, Eddie Chan, Kent Cheng, Ching Yee Chong,
Directors : Dennis Yu,

A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Melissa Leo, Timothy Hutton, William Hurt,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".

Actors : Sandra Montaigu, Lucas Belvaux, Alice de Poncheville, Fabienne Babe,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Actors : David Hasselhoff, Jeanie Moore, John Saxon, Bo Hopkins,
Directors : Mario DiLeo,

A drifter and his pet Puma stands up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.

Actors : Gregg Henry, Jeff Conaway, Michael J. Pollard, Simone Griffeth,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons.

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Eagle Han, Jeong-il Choi, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

To avenge his parents, Lao kidnaps the daughter of one of the men who betrayed his father in hope of luring him out. Through the process of defeating his minions Lao befriends a one-handed ...

Actors : Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor,

Shah is the leader of the Mugal tribe in Asia; when he gets news that bandit, Razoulli and his gang are coming to launch an attack on their region, he is petrified and asks his people to ...

Actors : Suzanne Snyder, Season Hubley, David Birney, Susannah York,
Directors : George Kaczender,

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating ...

Actors : Kin Shriner, Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Bruce Logan,

A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Mircea Albulescu, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.

Actors : John Putch, Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, Frank Miller,
Directors : Gary Winick,

Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.

Actors : Kaoru Kaze, Yukijirô Hotaru, Kazumi Kimura, Shûji Kataoka,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

The world's largest black pearl has vanished without a trace, and it's up to detective Ippei to track it down. His only clue is the mysterious words of a dying man, "Pussy Print!".

Actors : Grant Temple, Richard Harrison, Alphonse Beni, Stuart Smith,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

When police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he ...

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te,
Directors : Yermek Shinarbayev,

After their son is murdered a couple raise a second son to avenge him.

Actors : Almanta Suska, Protacio Dee, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers.