
25 Best 80s Action Movies That Still Hold Up Today

25. Road House
A legendary bouncer is hired to clean up a rowdy bar, but his mission to restore order puts him in direct conflict with a powerful crime boss who rules the town. | © United Artists

24. Big Trouble in Little China
A rough-and-tumble trucker and his loyal sidekick dive into a supernatural showdown beneath Chinatown, taking on an ancient sorcerer and his mystical forces. | © 20th Century Studios

23. The Running Man
In a dystopian America, a wrongly convicted cop earns a chance at freedom by competing in a brutal TV game show where convicts must survive against deadly assassins. | © TriStar Pictures

22. Streets of Fire
A mercenary returns to save his rock singer ex-girlfriend from a dangerous motorcycle gang. | © Universal Pictures

21. Licence to Kill
A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death. | © MGM

20. Commando
A retired Special Forces colonel tries to rescue his kidnapped daughter from a vengeful ex-team member who demands his compliance in a political assassination. | © 20th Century Studios

19. Superman II
Superman gives up his powers to be with Lois Lane, unaware that three escaped Kryptonian villains are wreaking havoc on Earth. | © Columbia Pictures

18. Top Gun
At the elite Top Gun school, hotshot pilot Maverick clashes with rival Iceman as he hones his flying skills and confronts his nature. | © Paramount Pictures

17. Escape from New York
In a near-future where a pandemic has transformed Manhattan into a maximum-security prison, a disgraced ex-soldier is recruited to rescue the U.S. president. | © Embassy Pictures

16. Lethal Weapon 2
Riggs and Murtaugh investigate South African diplomats exploiting their immunity to smuggle drugs, uncovering a dangerous web of corruption and violence. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

15. Beverly Hills Cop
A street-smart Detroit cop follows a murder case to Beverly Hills, where he must navigate the starkly different and upscale local culture. | © Paramount Pictures

14. Batman
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones is tasked by desperate villagers to recover a sacred stone stolen by a secret cult operating beneath an ancient palace. | © Paramount Pictures

12. The Road Warrior
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a hardened drifter becomes an unlikely ally to a resourceful community as they defend their fuel supply from bandits. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

11. Lethal Weapon
Two mismatched cops must overcome their differences to take down a dangerous gang of drug smugglers. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

10. Red Dawn
It is the dawn of World War III and a group of teenagers in America’s western mountains rises to defend their town and country against a Soviet invasion. | © United Artists

9. First Blood
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. | © Orion Pictures

8. RoboCop
In crime-ridden Detroit, a fatally injured officer is reborn as a cyborg law enforcer, grappling with buried memories of his former life. | © Orion Pictures

7. Predator
A team of elite commandos on a mission in the Central American jungle becomes the prey of a deadly extraterrestrial hunter. | © 20th Century Studios

6. The Terminator
A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior who will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction. | © Orion Pictures

5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
When his father disappears while searching for the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones faces off against the Nazis to prevent them from seizing its power. | © Paramount Pictures

4. Scarface
In the 1980s Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant rises to power as a drug kingpin in Miami, only to be destroyed by his addiction and ambition. | © Universal Pictures

3. Aliens
Decades after the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony, leading a fierce battle against the Alien Queen and her deadly offspring. | © 20th Century Studios

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
In 1936, the U.S. government enlists archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones to locate the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis could obtain its extraordinary powers. | © Paramount Pictures

1. Die Hard
A New York cop battles terrorists to rescue his estranged wife and hostages during a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza, redefining the action genre. | © 20th Century Studios
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