Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Pat Ast, Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to 'level' the playing ...

Actors : Victor Arnold, Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Sandy Alexander,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Two New York cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.

Actors : Brandon Maggart, Andy Fenwick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Lewis Jackson,

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Actors : Louis Ferreira, Lisa Schrage, Wendy Lyon, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Bruce Pittman,

Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

Actors : Lara Harris, D.B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Peter Werner,

A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.

Actors : Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.

Actors : Art Evans, David Keith, Alan Rosenberg, Cathy Moriarty,
Directors : Donald Cammell,

In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in ...

Actors : Donal McCann, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Actors : Bronwen Mantel, David Hewlett, Terry O'Quinn, Cynthia Preston,
Directors : Sandor Stern,

Isolated by his strange parents, Leon finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father's doctor office. Unfortunately, the doll begins to take over Leon's life, and his sister's life as well.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Actors : Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy, Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Peter Yates,

In 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.

Actors : Frances McDormand, Mai Zetterling, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Ken Loach,

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...

Actors : Cynthia Gibb, Burt Reynolds, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Harley Cokeliss,

Ex-CIA hit-man running from his past (Malone) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs accross a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Rob Lowe, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the ...

Actors : Ricky Addison Reed, Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.

Actors : Lorie Griffin, Betsy Russell, Lucinda Dickey, Leif Garrett,
Directors : John Quinn,

A group of cheerleaders become the targets of an unknown killer at a remote summer camp.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, George Coe,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.