1. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
$10.7 million
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning grossed $10,755,447 out of $2,410,000 Budget.Plot:
Ten years before freeing the US POWs from a brutal general, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François (Pierre Issot), and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. One of his fellow soldiers Captain David Nester (Steven Williams) has been convinced (likely by Yin) that their country has abandoned them and has become one of Yin’s henchmen for which his fellow soldiers denounce him as a traitor.
2. Firewalker (1986)
$11.8 million
Firewalker grossed $11,834,302Plot:
Firewalker is a 1986 American action-adventure comedy film starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Will Sampson in his final feature film role, and Melody Anderson. This was the first comedic role for Norris, giving him a chance to poke fun at his action persona. Max Donigan and Leo Porter are two “seasoned” treasure hunters whose adventures rarely result in any notable success. After their latest stint gone wrong, they are recruited by a seemingly psychic woman, Patricia Goodwin, owner of a treasure map. She convinces them that the map leads to a huge stockpile of gold belonging to the “Firewalker.” She then says that someone, or thing, else is searching for the map: a red cyclops.
3. Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
$12 million
Breaker! Breaker! grossed $12 million out of $250.000 Budget.Plot:
Breaker! Breaker! is a 1977 American action film directed by Don Hulette and starring Chuck Norris. J.D. (Chuck Norris), a trucker from California, returns from the road to learn that an old friend was assaulted and paralyzed by Sergeant Strode (Don Gentry), a policeman in Texas City, California. He makes inquiries into Texas City and learns that its policemen Strode and Deputy Boles (Ron Cedillos) have a history of “trapping” truckers for a corrupt judge named Trimmings who is running various rackets in the so-called “City”.
4. Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
$12.2 million
Plot:
5. Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
$17.5 million
Invasion U.S.A. grossed $17.5 million out of $12 million Budget.Plot:
Invasion U.S.A. is a 1985 American action film produced by Cannon Films, and starring Chuck Norris. It was directed by Joseph Zito. It involves the star fighting off a force of Soviet/Cuban-led guerrillas. A group of Cuban refugees is on a boat sailing for the United States and is at first met by what appears to be a US Coast Guard boat with armed personnel. The captain of the vessel declares that the refugees are welcomed to the United States, but the Guardsmen open fire on them and take several bags of cocaine hidden in the boat. It is revealed that the armed personnel were Latin American guerrillas disguised as Guardsmen on board a hijacked Coast Guard vessel. Eventually, the real Coast Guard finds the boat with the murdered American Coast Guardsmenoff the coast of Florida. The FBI and the Miami Police Department arrive at the docks to investigate the murders.RELATED:
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6. The Delta Force (1986)
$17.7 million
The Delta Force grossed $17.7 million out of $9 million Budget.Plot:
As leaders of an elite group of Special Operations Forces personnel based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. In 1980, Operation Eagle Claw is aborted after a fatal helicopter crash, with the U.S. Delta Force evacuating to their C-130 transports. Among them is Captain Scott McCoy, who, against orders, rescues his wounded comrade, Peterson, from the burning helicopter before the team finally evacuates. McCoy expresses his disgust for the politicians and the military hierarchy that forced the mission to launch despite the risks, and announces his resignation.
7. Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
$18.3 million
Plot:
However, this is the one that Norris considers his “breakthrough” In 1973, United States Senator Conrad Morgan (James Franciscus), the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of the Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris, France with Kuong Yen; a North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to release certain key CIA POWs in exchange for Morgan setting up a death-trap for an elite group of CIA assassins, known as the Black Tigers. The treaty was signed and the Black Tigers were sent into the Vietnam jungle to their unwitting demise, having incorrectly been told that they were on a mission to liberate American POWs.
8. The Octagon (1980)
$19 million
The Octagon grossed $19 million out of $4 million Budget.Plot:
Film from budget $4 million earned $19 million. The Octagon is a 1980 American action martial arts film starring Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson and Lee Van Cleef. It was directed by Eric Karson and written by Paul Aaron and Leigh Chapman. The film involves a martial artist (Chuck Norris) who must stop a group of terrorists trained in the ninja style by his half-brother (Tadashi Yamashita).
9. Code of Silence (1985)
$20.3 million
Code of Silence grossed $20.3 million out of $7 million Budget.Plot:
Code of Silence It features Norris as Sgt. Eddie Cusack, a streetwise plainclothes officer who takes down a crime czar responsible for officers being wounded in a botched drug raid. In the film’s climax, Norris teams with a crime-fighting robot named “Prowler.”
10. Missing in Action (1984)
$22.8 million
Missing in Action grossed $ 22.8 million out of $1.5 million Budget.Plot:
It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.RELATED:
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11. A Force of One (1979)
$23 million
A Force of One grossed $23 million out of $2.5 million Budget.Plot:
When a team of undercover narcotics officers is targeted by a serial killer, the police recruit karate champion Matt Logan to bring the murders to an end. Narcotics officer Amanda “Mandy” Rust (Jennifer O’Neill) discovers that a traitor within the police ranks is behind the killings.