Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, Max Phipps,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy ...

Actors : Clayton Rohner, Anthony Perkins, Deborah Foreman, Lyle Alzado,
Directors : Robert Kirk,

A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of ...

Actors : Nicholas Campbell, Barbara Gordon, Gina Dick, Henry Silva,
Directors : William Fruet,

When a group of college students come across a redneck in the wilderness murdering his wife's lover, they become the objects of his crazed vengeance.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Roger Planchon, Jean Poiret,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Robert L. Collins,

A family in Africa finds itself under attack by a pride of lions.

Actors : Kathleen Bailey, Derek Rydall, Jovanni Brascia, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Rupert Hitzig,

A student known for telling stories witnesses a murder, the latest in a series of satanic killings of hookers.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet, Gila von Weitershausen,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top-models. A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Jung Wang, Maria Jo, Norman Chu,
Directors : Kuen Yeung,

A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab.

Actors : Albert Au, Tin Sang Lung, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

Actors : Kim Valentine, Eric Foster, Ida Lee, Len Lesser,
Directors : Peter Rader,

After the death of their beloved father, two teens go to their grandmother's house in Florida and begin to suspect their grandparents of murder.

Actors : Marc Singer, Brian Thompson, Jeff Lester, Adrianne Sachs,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

Scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams. In these, he seems to be involved in the murder of a beautiful young woman. When ...

Actors : Robin MacEachern, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Amy Madigan, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, ...

Actors : Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ...

Actors : Carlo De Mejo, Franca Stoppi, Francesca Carmeno, Susan Forget,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot!

Actors : Claudia Muzii, Paola Rinaldi, Margareta von Krauss, Roland Wybenga,
Directors : Gianfranco Giagni,

Alan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus". Arrived in the Hungarian capital, Alan...

Actors : Suzane Carvalho, Gloria Cristal, Rossana Ghessa, Henri Pagnoncelli,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Lenny von Dohlen, Josef Sommer, Marc Coppola,
Directors : Christopher Coppola,

The young owner of a waxworks in Hollywood receives five instead of six ordered chests with Romanian antiques. He does not know that Vanessa, widow of Count Dracula, sleeps in the sixth ...

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Perry King, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne,
Directors : Arthur Allan Seidelman,

One night, unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.