Action Movies
Hero at Large (1980)
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is…
The Flag of Iron (1980)
The Final Countdown (1980)
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese…
Air Crew (1980)
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Clan of the White Lotus (1980)
The Boxer from the Temple (1980)
The Last Reunion (1980)
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man’s wife. The couple’s son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events…
The Crippled Masters (1979)
Cuba (1979)
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista’s army against Castro’s guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous…
The Black Hole (1979)
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering…
Day of the Assassin (1979)
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah’s fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
1941 (1979)
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Penitentiary (1979)
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where…
The Glove (1979)
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock’em sock’em mayhem ensues.
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.
Sun Dragon (1979)
Steel (1979)
Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big…
Meteor (1979)
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid “Orpheus” is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will…
Concrete Cowboys (1979)
Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark but, soon, they get involved in a case involving a…
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a…
G.I. Samurai (1979)
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country’s warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
The Tigress of Shaolin (1979)
Hui Ying-hung, legendary director Chang Cheh’s discovery, and the protege of equally legendary director Liu Chia-liang co-stars with Liu’s nephew, Liu Chia-yung in this fast-paced, action packed comedy of kung-fu…