Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Rich Hamilton, Michael Robertson,
Directors : Mik Cribben,

A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

A man is pursued by killers after helping someone at a car crash.

Actors : Wolfgang Kieling, Götz George, Renée Soutendijk, Hannes Jaenicke,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it ...

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Blackie Dammett, Brent Huff, Emilia Crow,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

Two anti-terrorist agents are assigned to free a busload of American schoolchildren in the Philippines who are taken hostage by terrorists.

Actors : Jack Hallett, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicholas Love,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

Actors : Kathy LaCommare, Ric Randig, Dick Biel, Forbes Riley,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof's replacement ...

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount,
Directors : Robert Collector,

Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.

Actors : Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, Bunky Jones, George Thomas,
Directors : Skip Schoolnik,

A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.

Actors : Lana Clarkson, Kirstie Alley, Joseph Bottoms, James Daughton,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid...

Actors : Heinz Hoenig, Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer,
Directors : Dominik Graf,

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

Actors : Pamela Sue Martin, Ned Beatty, Jared Rushton, Stephen Meadows,
Directors : Mark Griffiths,

13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry ...

Actors : François Périer, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Sam Raimi, Robert Rickman, Timothy Patrick Quill, John Manfredi,
Directors : Josh Becker,

Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns he tries to live a peaceful life in his cabin and resume dating his girlfriend, ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Peter Zinner,

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect...

Actors : Nicole Garcia, John Lydon, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Mann,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City flat.

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Kari Sorvali, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Tiina Björkman, Kim Gunell,
Directors : Olli Soinio,

A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as ...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Paul L. Smith, David Carradine, Conrad Janis, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Robert Martin Carroll,

A small-town crime boss accepts delivery of a stolen car, only to find there's a baby in the back-seat. He and his transgender wife cut out the boy's tongue and raise him as a mute ...