Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Roy Scheider, Lara Harris, Tim Reid, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.

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.

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 : Peter DuPre, Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.

Actors : Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery, Klaus Kinski, Carole Francis,
Directors : David Schmoeller,

A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

Actors : John Stockwell, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight High School discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and ...

Actors : Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.

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 : Caroline Williams, Meg Foster, Terry O'Quinn, Jonathan Brandis,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

After escaping the insane asylum in which he was incarcerated, the Stepfather impersonates a marriage counselor and manages to win over a patient and her young son.

Actors : Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Lewis Collins, Edward Woodward,
Directors : Ian Sharp,

A trooper with the British Special Air Service (SAS) infiltrates a radical political group who are planning a terrorist operation against American dignitaries. A glamourized look at the ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jan Gan Boyd, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.

Actors : David Sandford, Garry Who, Peter Ford, Cassandra Delaney,
Directors : Mario Andreacchio,

A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill ...

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.

Actors : Kim Hunter, Amanda Pays, David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger,

A geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution - his monstrous tentacled baby brother, before a mad scientist gets to him first.

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Herman van Veen, Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...

Actors : Susan Tyrrell, Rory Calhoun, Dick Shawn, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation...

Actors : Ed Harris, Christopher Lambert, Tim Roth, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Actors : Tasko Nacic, Srdjan Saper, Nikola Simic, Rahela Ferari,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A ...

Actors : Mitch Maglio, Asaph Livni, Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork,
Directors : Buddy Giovinazzo,

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.