Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Philippe Noiret, James Belushi, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In...

Actors : Sidney Brammer, Robert A. Burns, Berkley Garrett, Dennis Hill,
Directors : Mark Blair,

After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Jesse Aragon, Rene Auberjonois, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Larry Gross,

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln ...

Actors : Tandy Cronyn, Christian Slater, Lois Smith, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Adam Holender,

One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big...

Actors : Christine Amor, Leon Lissek, Ian Williams, Helen Thomson,
Directors : Alec Mills,

A serial killer is loose at an all girl school, where he strangles girls with a piece of barbed wire.

Actors : Laura Premica, José Gras, Andrea Albani, Peter John Saunders,
Directors : Paul Grau,

A man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his family.

Actors : Ken Yoshizawa, Ayako Ishii, Seira Kitagawa, Megumi Ozawa,
Directors : Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu,

A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Paul Richards, Steve Buscemi, Paul Dillon,
Directors : Peter Ily Huemer,

At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is ...

Actors : Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.

Actors : Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, Shawn von Schreiber, James Naughton,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

The 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker...

Actors : Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Sam Freed, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.

Actors : Lynne Margulies, Christopher Barkett, Sid Haig, Steve Barkett,
Directors : Steve Barkett,

Two astronauts return to earth ("a few miles off the coast of Los Angeles") to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw ...

Actors : Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Matthew Wong, Waise Lee, Joey Wang,

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of ...

Actors : Robin Gammell, Sara Botsford, John Houseman, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

Actors : Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Brett Halsey, Stefano Madia,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor to various sexual torture acts whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend.

Actors : Régis Arpin, David Behar, Dominique Blanc, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...

Actors : Dan Erickson, Marla Machart, Amy Brentano, Shannon McMahon,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

Seven girls must spend the night in an old house, which once was a brothel, as part of an initiation.

Actors : Roberta Manfredi, Kari Väänänen, Margi Clarke, Jean-Pierre Castaldi,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Alex is Finlander married to an Italian who works as a taxi driver in Berlin. One night in his taxi come two men with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by...

Actors : Erik van 't Wout, Adriaan Olree, Renée Soutendijk, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working on the streets of Paris during the 1880s.