Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1980s", "martial-artist"

1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen

Votes: 1,196,016 | Gross: $70.10M

2. The Karate Kid (1984)

PG | 126 min | Action, Drama, Family

A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove

Votes: 244,848 | Gross: $90.82M

3. Bloodsport (1988)

R | 92 min | Action, Biography, Drama

"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.

Director: Newt Arnold | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton

Votes: 94,164 | Gross: $11.81M

4. Black Rain (1989)

R | 125 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw

Votes: 59,759 | Gross: $46.21M

5. The Karate Kid Part III (1989)

PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Family

Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith

Votes: 69,264 | Gross: $38.96M

6. Police Story (1985)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.

Directors: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Yuen Chor

Votes: 41,961 | Gross: $0.11M

7. Above the Law (1988)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean

Votes: 34,671 | Gross: $18.87M

8. Best of the Best (1989)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sport

A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country - can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?

Director: Robert Radler | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Phillip Rhee

Votes: 15,290 | Gross: $1.70M

9. An Eye for an Eye (1981)

R | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.

Director: Steve Carver | Stars: Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark

Votes: 4,534 | Gross: $7.68M

10. Hard to Kill (1990)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Targeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opportunity to get even.

Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler, Frederick Coffin

Votes: 32,401 | Gross: $47.41M

11. American Ninja (1985)

R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.

Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock

Votes: 16,764 | Gross: $10.50M

12. Code of Silence (1985)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take down an irresponsible cop.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese

Votes: 9,418 | Gross: $20.35M

13. Fist of the North Star (1984–1988)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After a nuclear war turns Earth into a lawless wasteland, Kenshiro, a practitioner of the deadly master art "Hokuto Shinken", fights a succession of tyrannical warriors to restore order.

Stars: Akira Kamiya, Shigeru Chiba, Teiyû Ichiryûsai, Tomiko Suzuki

Votes: 3,589

14. Silent Rage (1982)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a silent maniacal murderer who, as the result of secret genetic experimentation by an unethical scientist, has the ability to self-heal.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem

Votes: 6,729 | Gross: $10.49M

15. Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Ensuing after the events of Clouseau's disappearance, his bosses at the Surete put a computer into service to elect a new shrewd detective, Sleigh, who turns up just as inept as Clouseau.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley

Votes: 6,646 | Gross: $4.49M

16. Police Story 2 (1988)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The Hong Kong supercop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers, while the villains of Police Story (1985) are out for revenge.

Director: Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung

Votes: 22,577

17. The Octagon (1980)

R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.

Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Art Hindle

Votes: 6,181 | Gross: $18.97M

18. Fear City (1984)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith

Votes: 4,338

19. Ranma ½ (1989–1990)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

A girl is involuntarily engaged to a boy who turns female when hit with cold water and male when hit with hot.

Stars: Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka, Sarah Strange

Votes: 5,605

20. Legacy of Rage (1986)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Brandon Ma is an average Joe but his best friend, Michael, is a sinister drug dealer with a crush on Brandon's girlfriend, May. When Michael murders a dirty cop and frames his friend, sending him to jail, Brandon returns for vengeance.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wong, Regina Kent, Michael Wai-Man Chan

Votes: 1,543

21. Taffin (1988)

R | 96 min | Action, Thriller

An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child

Votes: 2,120 | Gross: $0.16M

22. Eliminators (1986)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee

Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $4.60M

23. Righting Wrongs (1986)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan, a lawyer angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys. He decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are ... See full summary »

Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Biao Yuen, Cynthia Rothrock, Melvin Wong, Roy Chiao

Votes: 2,022

24. Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)

R | 103 min | Action, War

Braddock mounts a one-man assault to free his wife and son who are still being held in a Vietnam prison camp.

Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim

Votes: 7,185 | Gross: $6.19M

25. Ranma ½ (1989–1992)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

Ranma Saotome, the boy who turns into a girl with a splash of water, always has his hands full fending off crazed admirers. One of the most fanatical is Shampoo, a girl from a tribe of ... See full summary »

Stars: Ken'ichi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka, Venus Terzo

Votes: 1,776

26. Confessions of an Action Star (2005)

Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Comedy, Musical

In the spring of 1986, no one had heard of Frank Sledge. One year later, Bloodfight 2 was #1 at the box office... And a star was born.

Director: Brad Martin | Stars: Holmes Osborne, David Leitch, Kelly Hu, Eric Roberts

Votes: 786

27. Thunder (1983)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A native American named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only ... See full summary »

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Bo Svenson, Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Valeria Cavalli

Votes: 600

28. Fish Story (2009)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Several seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Noriko Eguchi, Hidekazu Mashima

Votes: 3,435

29. Rage of Honor (1987)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama

Tanaka, a DEA agent, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Tanaka follows the culprit, a sadistic drug lord, down to Argentina.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Shô Kosugi, Lewis Van Bergen, Robin Evans, Gerry Gibson

Votes: 964

30. Fist of the North Star 2 (1987–1988)

Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Having disappeared years earlier, Kenshiro returns to help his old friends Lin and Bat confront a string of new threats, including masters of "Gento Koken" and "Hokuto Ryuken".

Stars: Akira Kamiya, Mîna Tominaga, Shigeru Chiba, Shinji Ogawa

Votes: 918

31. L.A. Streetfighters (1985)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama

A Korean immigrant in L.A. encounters difficulties when he refuses to join the all-Korean gang in his highschool.

Director: Woo-sang Park | Stars: Jun Chong, Phillip Rhee, James Lew, Rosanna King

Votes: 495

32. Double Target (1987)

102 min | Action, Adventure, War

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ... See full summary »

Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Bo Svenson, Kristine Erlandson

Votes: 419

33. Shenmue (2022)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A 18 year old boy from Yokosuka, Japan named Ryo Hazuki, finds himself on the path of revenge after watching his father's death right in front of him by a man named Lan Di, a ruthless ... See full summary »

Stars: Masaya Matsukaze, Austin Tindle, Hiroaki Okuda, Akihiro Tajima

Votes: 547

34. Final Score (1986)

TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A Vietnam War veteran who now living in Indonesia discovers that gunmen invaded his home, murdered his son and his wife. Vowing revenge, he begins to track down the culprits, learning that they're in the employ of his business rival.

Director: Arizal | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Mike Abbott, Ida Iasha, Dicky Zulkarnaen

Votes: 230

35. The Ninja Mission (1984)

R | 93 min | Action, Drama

Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led ... See full summary »

Director: Mats Helge Olsson | Stars: Krzysztof Kolberger, Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Bo F. Munthe, Curt Broberg

Votes: 762

36. Trained to Kill (1989)

R | 94 min | Action

After a retired US army man is murdered by a crime lord, his two sons, one of them adopted after the old man rescued him from Cambodia during the Vietnam war, train hard and then start looking for the criminal to avenge their father.

Director: H. Kaye Dyal | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Glen Eaton, Lisa Aliff, Marshall R. Teague

Votes: 163

37. Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life (1986 Music Video)

4 min | Music

Talking Heads perform in the music video "Wild Wild Life" from the album "True Stories" recorded for Sire Records. On a club stage in front of a band and a wall of televisions, a variety of... See full summary »

Director: David Byrne | Stars: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, John Goodman, Jerry Harrison

Votes: 236

38. Shenmue (1999 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Crime

Ryo, a respected Japanese student sees his father killed in front of his own eyes. He sets out to find the man in charge of his fathers death and the mystery of who and why?

Directors: Keiji Okayasu, Yu Suzuki | Stars: Hiroshi Fujioka, Masaya Matsukaze, Corey Marshall, Robert Jefferson

Votes: 1,312

39. Street Fighter (1987 Video Game)

E10+ | Action

Ryu and Ken, two skilled martial artists, take on street fighters around the world to become street fighter champion. In the finale, they battle the Muay Thai master Adon and ultimately his mentor Sagat, the reputed "Emperor of Muay Thai".

Director: Takashi Nishiyama

Votes: 534

40. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History

The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid

Votes: 1,331

41. Fatal Revenge (1989)

80 min | Action, Crime

A cop has to infiltrate a criminal network in order to take it down from the inside.

Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: J.C. McLean, Danny V. Osborne, Lionel Denson, David F. Walker

Votes: 25

42. Shenmue: The Movie (2001)

88 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Follow Ryo Hazuki as he attempts to track down the man responsible for his father's death.

Director: Yu Suzuki | Stars: Ryan Drees, Lynn Harris, Ruth Hollyman, Robert Jefferson

Votes: 377

43. Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 606 min | Sport, Talk-Show

Hulk Hogan has mesmerized fans from the birth of Hulkamania in the mid-80's, and continues to wow fans today. Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology chronicles the amazing Hall of Fame career ... See full summary »

Stars: Adnan Al-Kaissy, Lou Albano, Muhammad Ali, Steve Austin

Votes: 225

44. The Karate Kid (1987 Video Game)

Sport

After Daniel LaRusso's victory at the All Valley Karate Tournament, the fresh champion flies off to Okinawa to put to the test his rigorous training, using his lethal bare hands as a weapon. Can he become a martial arts master?

Director: Jimmy Simeone | Star: Dawna Oak

Votes: 117

45. Justice (IV) (2014)

17 min | Short, Comedy

Crime-fighter Milton Justice gets a new partner.

Director: Michael Swinehart | Stars: Akende Munalula, Stephen Sitkowski, Robert Sprayberry, Leo Zaza

46. Defend Yourself! (1985 Video)

58 min | Documentary

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Director: Howard Jamison | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, George Chung

47. Bloodbath (2007)

Short, Action, Adventure

John T. Rex is a cop at the top of his game. Nobody likes his methods, but he always delivers the goods. When Rex discovers the secret hide-out of the internationally wanted criminal Ken Oh... See full summary »

Director: Raphaello | Stars: Morten Kublick, Makoto Tanaka, Dwight 'Father Times' Benjamin, Ko Kuriki

Votes: 133

48. Linda (1984– )
Episode: A tizennyolckarátos aranyhal (1986)

64 min | Comedy, Crime

Goldfishes are stolen from the Margaret Island's fish pond. Major Eosze pass the "extremely Important" case to Linda, just to keep her away from any really dangerous cases. Linda, of course... See full summary »

Director: György Gát | Stars: Nóra Görbe, Béla Szerednyey, Tamás Vayer, Miklós Tolnay

Votes: 20