Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Jeff Osterhage, Patrick Macnee, Clare Hoak, Adrian Paul,
Directors : Larry Brand,

With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But ...

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Don Keith Opper, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Judd Nelson, Meg Foster, Robert Loggia,
Directors : William Lustig,

Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Jane Lapotaire, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

In 1925, Arctic prospector Jack McCann becomes a rich man when he strikes gold but 20 years later he faces major personal and family problems.

Actors : Sarah Maur Thorp, David Lodge, Glynis Barber, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Gérard Kikoïne,

When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in ...

Actors : Laurie Moran, Sean Garlick, Elaine Cusick, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Arch Nicholson,

An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

Actors : Richard Bright, Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : William Lustig,

Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a ...

Actors : Jayne Smith, Margaret Trigg, James Cole, Richard Gesswein,
Directors : Cullen Blaine,

Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford,
Directors : Vernon Zimmerman,

A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : Valeria D'Obici, Henry Silva, Mark Gregory, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A rag-tag group of people must fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : James Booth, Steve James, William Wallace, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

A senator is targeted by the Pentangle, a right wing paramilitary group. His pal, a former CIA agent and martial artist, tries to help him. The group kidnaps the agent's sister and tries to hunt him down, "The Most Dangerous Game" style.

Actors : Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Sam Groom, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Contaminated grain breeds overgrown, killer rats in this Golden Harvest production. Dachshunds were dressed up as rats for the special effects.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Actors : Cynthia Bain, William Prince, Jon Cypher, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Actors : Kjersti Holmen, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Hans Ola Sørlie, Helge Jordal,

A group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station. The they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior, Troy Donahue,
Directors : David A. Prior,

A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the "students" at the camp can learn how to track down and kill their prey.