Best Thriller movies of 1988

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson,
Directors : John McTiernan,

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Actors : Barbara Gordon, Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

Actors : Kurtwood Smith, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Marc de Jonge,
Directors : Peter MacDonald,

Colonel Trautman is captured by Soviets during a mission in Afghanistan so Rambo sets out to rescue him while taking on the invading Russian forces.

Actors : Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tom Holland,

A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Actors : Robert Englund, John Beckman, Rodney Eastman, Kisha Brackel,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

The last girl from Elm Street is still bothered by dreams about Freddy; soon he returns and kills her, but before she died she wills her power to a new friend.

Actors : Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Doug Bradley,
Directors : Tony Randel,

Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

Actors : Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Donovan Leitch Jr., Shawnee Smith,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everything in its path. Teenagers attempt without success to warn the townspeople, who refuse to take them seriously.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.

Actors : Gene Bervoets, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gwen Eckhaus, Johanna ter Steege,
Directors : George Sluizer,

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

Actors : Lar Park-Lincoln, John Otrin, Jennifer Banko, Susan Blu,
Directors : John Carl Buechler,

Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the dormant Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a telekinetic teenager.

Actors : Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Colin Firth, Liz Smith,
Directors : Martin Donovan,

Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane ...

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Julie Carmen, Traci Lind, William Ragsdale,
Directors : Tommy Lee Wallace,

Charley Brewster and Peter Vincent must face more vampires which are out for revenge.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan,

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Actors : Ted Vernon, Kristina Sanborn, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan,
Directors : William Wesley,

Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

Oldman plays a lawyer who defends a killer, but, soon after he wins he finds out that the killer is guilty.

Actors : Dorian Healy, Denzel Washington, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish,
Directors : Martin Stellman,

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.