Best Action Films of 1985
A View to a Kill
Secret Agent 007 must ... is most notable for the fact that it marked the final appearance of Roger Moore as the dashing Bond. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Rambo: First Blood Part II
The dark-horse box-office hit ... through this laughable and often insulting film intended to exploit anti-communist fervor at the height of the Reagan years. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Miami Vice: Season 02
Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) ... once more with the vicious, self-destructive Calderone crime family, whose head man is played by a young John Leguizamo. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Commando
Shortly after The Terminator ... to rescue his daughter. Helping him is Cindy (Chong), who has her own reasons for wanting the dictator dead. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Death Wish 3
Michael Winner ups the ... to confound the gang, the senior citizens gleefully take pot shots at the wounded gang members from their windows. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Gotcha!
"Gotcha!" is a puerile ... aren't quite as adept at "Gotcha" as Edwards is. Most of the film was lensed in Paris and Berlin. [ best action films - 1985 ]
MacGyver: Season 01
Television's most inventive and ... the weekly, 60-minute series managed to hold its own against such competition as Murder, She Wrote and Amazing Stories. [ best action films - 1985 ]
King Solomon's Mines
The action in this ... human beasts to conquer before the father or the mines hove into view. A sequel was soon to follow. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Red Sonja
Brigitte Nielsen appears as ... avenge the deaths of Sonja's family. This story descends from the writings of Robert E. Howard (author of Conan). [ best action films - 1985 ]
The A-Team: Season 04
Season four of The ... who was slated to become a series regular but could not reach the right financial terms with the producers. [ best action films - 1985 ]
My Lucky Stars
This is an early ... friends, now small-time criminals, and this unlikely group goes to the aid of the cops to fight the mob. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Runaway Train
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's ... Kurosawa in 1970, but for various creative and scheduling reasons, it remained on the back burner for 15 years. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Spies Like Us
Director John Landis helmed ... popularized by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, the film features a cameo by the latter as his golf-playing self. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars
This third installment in ... Tien Chun), a drug dealer who, it turns out, is being targeted by the same baddies that killed Ma. [ best action films - 1985 ]
City Limits
This bleak post-apocalyptic science ... when the fascistic Sunya Corporation attempts to take over the city with the cooperation of the DA bike gang. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Adapted from the "Destroyer" ... at the Statue of Liberty and other stunts enliven the action, but cannot make up for comic-book level characters. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
About 15 years after ... Mad Max films. Spence also appeared in Mad Max 2 in a different role, that of the Gyro Captain. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Protector
Although this American action ... not make another attempt to break into the American market until 1996 with the hit Rumble in the Bronx. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Iron Eagle
A seat-of-the-pants militia attitude ... pilot from his father). Yes. If audiences believe all this, then the ending should come as no surprise either. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Heart of the Dragon
This Jackie Chan martial ... isn't to get more "action," though; it's to keep a closer eye on his feebly-minded brother Danny (director Hung). [ best action films - 1985 ]
Code of Silence
Not to be confused ... nothing more than cannons, machine guns, shotguns, pistols, a robot car, and other sundry artillery to help him out. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Black Cauldron
Walt Disney Pictures produced ... feature from Disney to receive a PG rating from the MPAA, due to some frightening scenes of black magic. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Knight Rider: Season 04
The fourth and final ... al. endeavoring to get to the bottom of a supposed curse that has claimed the lives of several archeologists. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Shaker Run
In this uneven Kiwi ... mechanic (Leif Garrett) to be the couriers -- which sets them up as targets, and the chase is on. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Police Story
This was internationally famous ... the 1986 Hong Kong Film Festival and was nominated for several other awards that year. Sequel after sequel followed. [ best action films - 1985 ]
American Commandos
A former Green Beret ... break up a major drug ring. Much of the film, including the LA sequences, were shot in the Philippines [ best action films - 1985 ]
Year of the Dragon
Best known for his ... the streets with corpses before the smoke clears and the dust settles, and a vague, unresolved future sets in. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Cut and Run
In this Italian adventure, ... a notorious, corrupt colonel is still alive. While in the jungles, they encounter hostile natives and other typical dangers. [ best action films - 1985 ]
American Ninja
In American Ninja, Michael ... host of bad guys as he rescues a lady in distress and ventures to thwart the thieving arms vendors. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Last Dragon
The TV prints of ... on both their lives when crook Julius J. Carry III tries to promote his talentless protegee into rock stardom. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Osa
The titular "Osa" ("female ... motivation and character development are the first casualties in the build-up of violent scenes leading to the culminating gore. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Invasion U.S.A.
This red-baiting action film ... (Friday the 13th), working on his third gig for director Joseph Zito. Zito and Savini returned with Red Scorpion. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Dagger of Kamui
In mid-1800s Japan, a ... events push him close to the treasure, Tenkai and his people are never far behind. (American release in 1993.) [ best action films - 1985 ]
The G.I. Executioner
In a typical "B"-movie ... well as his contacts from his journalism days, to find the scientist and bring him to a safe haven. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Gymkata
In a standard no-plotter, ... Philippines (Tetchie Agbayani) as Princess Rubali, the film offers some visual appeal as well as whirling martial arts choreography. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Hurricane Sword
Sword fighting is only ... facet of this thriller with murder, betrayal, prostitution and reunion. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Ninja Terminator
Mob kingpin Qua Tom ... allows him to take the mantle of Ninja Terminator. With these skills he sets out to get his revenge. [ best action films - 1985 ]
L.A. Streetfighters
In this martial arts ... and a bang-up, knock 'em dead showdown with a powerful drug cartel and its chief hitman, Kruger (Bill Wallace). [ best action films - 1985 ]
Ninja in the Deadly Trap
Soon after the legendary ... students -- Chau (Chiang Sheng), Mao (Philip Kwok Tsui), and Tung (Lu Feng) -- to take on the fight. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Secret of Tai Chi
Secret of Tai Chi ... about a young martial-arts aficionado who duels with a nasty Chinese military man. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Shaolin Drunk Monkey
A group of competitors ... angry when the Shaolin Drunk Monkey proclaims himself top warrior and they challenge the martial-arts master to a duel. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Ultimate Ninja
A pair of feisty ... fight the furious foe in this chop socky adventure. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Schiave Bianche - Violenza in Amazzonia
Set up as though ... This discovery sets her off on a mission of revenge across the Atlantic and into another series of adventures. [ best action films - 1985 ]
9 Deaths of the Ninja
Meant to be a ... the terrorists holding the tourists. Wild exaggeration in-between the karate action is meant to bring humor to the proceedings. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Seven Soldiers of Kung Fu
Directed by Chang Cheh, ... the rebel forces threatening to oust him from his domain. This film also features David Chiang and Ti Lung. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Area 88 [Anime OVA Series]
Shin Kazama is an ... result in death or worse. Can Shin survive the most dangerous job in the world for three whole years? [ best action films - 1985 ]
Robotech: Season 01
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Holy Robe of the Shaolin Temple
Using a legend about ... focuses on recapturing the robe, a task laid at the feet of a horse dealer and his daughters. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Double Dragon: Last Duel
When his father is ... retribution and ensure that the man who took his family from him suffers for the sins of his past. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Arhats In Fury
Zen Lao and Ko ... Ping kick some kung-fu keister in this entry in the 36 chamber series. [ best action films - 1985 ]
A Life of Ninja
When a Japanese Ninja ... his very surival. A Life of Ninja was directed by Lee Tso-Nan and stars Yasuaki Kurata and Chen Kuan-Tai. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The South Shaolin Master Part II
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Shaolin Hero
A noble thief learns ... adversaries in a non-stop battle to the death that puts his honor, and his very life, on the line. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Shaolin Monk Fights Back
Orphaned by assassins when ... all the kicks, punches, and wildly dubbed dialogue for which the kung fu genre of this time is known. [ best action films - 1985 ]
The Way to Fight
Two people engaged in ... as a boxer and Takeshi as a professional wrestler. The two finally get around to settling their old dispute. [ best action films - 1985 ]
Robotech: Season 02
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Robotech: Season 03
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