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Mad Max 2
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) is George Miller's 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film starring Mel Gibson, the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide until Crocodile Dundee, famed for its 15-minute practical-effects tanker chase.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, also known as Mad Max III, is a 1985 post-apocalyptic action film, the third in the Mad Max series, starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.
Missing in Action (film)
Missing in Action is a 1984 American action film starring Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock, a Vietnam veteran who returns to Vietnam to rescue American prisoners of war.
My Lucky Stars
My Lucky Stars (福星高照) is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Sammo Hung, the second Lucky Stars film, starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao; it topped the 1985 Hong Kong box office and was the first HK film to pass HK$30 million.
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is the 1983 unofficial James Bond film, a Warner Bros.-distributed remake of Thunderball starring Sean Connery, directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Jack Schwartzman from Kevin McClory's rights, released opposite Octopussy.
Octopussy
Octopussy (1983) is the 13th official Eon James Bond film and Roger Moore's sixth as 007, directed by John Glen; Bond thwarts a nuclear plot disguised as jewel smuggling, outgrossing the rival Never Say Never Again.
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 3: Back in Training is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Jerry Paris, in which the first film's cadets return as instructors to save their academy from closure.
Police Story 2 (警察故事续集)
Police Story 2 (警察故事續集, Police Story II) is Jackie Chan's 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy sequel to Police Story, in which demoted detective Chan Ka-kui hunts serial bombers; it won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Design.
Predator (film)
Predator is a 1987 American science-fiction action-horror film directed by John McTiernan, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's commando team is picked off by an alien hunting humans for sport.
Project A II (A计划续集)
Project A II, also known as Project A Part II, is a 1987 Hong Kong action comedy film directed, co-written, and headlined by Jackie Chan, the second film in the Project A series.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Harrison Ford's archaeologist Indiana Jones races Nazi agents to find the Ark of the Covenant.
Rambo III
Rambo III is a 1988 American action film, the third in the Rambo series, in which Stallone's John Rambo rescues his commander from Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) is George P. Cosmatos's action sequel starring Sylvester Stallone, sent to Vietnam to find POWs; it grossed $300 million worldwide and won five Razzies.
Red Heat (1988 film)
Red Heat (1988) is a Walter Hill buddy cop action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet captain Ivan Danko and Jim Belushi as Chicago detective Art Ridzik hunting a Georgian drug lord; it grossed about $35 million and shot scenes in Moscow's Red Square.
Rocky III
Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama directed, written by, and starring Sylvester Stallone, in which Rocky Balboa loses his title to Clubber Lang.
Rocky IV
Rocky IV (1985), Sylvester Stallone's fourth Rocky film, pits Rocky Balboa against Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) after Apollo Creed's ring death; the franchise's highest-grossing entry, re-edited in 2021 as Rocky vs. Drago.
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy directed by Hal Needham, the second film in the Smokey and the Bandit series, starring Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason.
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983), also released as Smokey and the Bandit III, is the third Universal Pictures film in the series, directed by Dick Lowry, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed, reshot from the abandoned Smokey Is the Bandit after poor previews, with a Burt Reynolds cameo.
Street Hawk
Street Hawk is a 1985 ABC action series (13 episodes) in which injured cop Jesse Mach, played by Rex Smith, secretly rides a 300 mph computerized combat motorcycle built by Norman Tuttle (Joe Regalbuto), with a Tangerine Dream theme.
Sudden Impact
Sudden Impact is a 1983 American action thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, the fourth of the five Dirty Harry films, introducing "Go ahead, make my day."
The Cannonball Run
The Cannonball Run is a 1981 American comedy directed by Hal Needham, in which Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, and other stars play competitors in an illegal cross-country race.
The Dead Pool
The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action thriller directed by Buddy Van Horn, the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series, with Clint Eastwood returning as inspector Harry Callahan.
The Delta Force
The Delta Force (1986) is a Cannon Films action film directed by Menahem Golan, starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as commandos rescuing hostages from a hijacked airliner, inspired by the 1985 TWA hijacking.
The Dirty Dozen: Fatal Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission is a 1988 American made-for-television war film, the third and final sequel to the 1967 film, directed by Lee H. Katzin.
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV movie, aka Dirty Dozen 2), directed by Andrew V. McLaglen; Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine return as Reisman and Worden leading convicts to kill a Nazi general plotting to assassinate Hitler.
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission is a 1987 made-for-TV war film, the second TV sequel to the 1967 original, directed by Lee H. Katzin and starring Telly Savalas and Ernest Borgnine, about twelve convicts destroying a Nazi nerve gas factory in occupied France.
The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 American action-adventure romantic comedy directed by Lewis Teague, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito as a sequel to Romancing the Stone.
The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights is a 1987 spy film, the fifteenth in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first to star Timothy Dalton as Agent 007.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 Paramount slapstick comedy directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin foiling a mind-control plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, based on the canceled 1982 TV series Police Squad!.
The Olsen Gang Long Gone
The Olsen Gang Long Gone (Olsen-banden over alle bjerge!) is the 13th Olsen-banden film, a 1981 Danish Erik Balling comedy in which Egon, Benny and Kjeld chase a red suitcase of arms-deal documents to Paris.