Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : William Lustig,

A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

Actors : Paul Clemens, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Tanya Roberts, Cooper Huckabee, Veronica Henson-Phillips,
Directors : Jag Mundhra,

A security guard is hired to gather evidence of adultery against the wife of the rock star and ends up getting involved with her.

Actors : Jing Chen, Lung Jiang, Ling Chow, Jian Huang,
Directors : Johnny Mak,

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

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 : Frederick Treves, Tom Wilkinson, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe,
Directors : Christopher Morahan,

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

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 : Michel Galabru, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Richard Bohringer,
Directors : Didier Grousset,

A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

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 : Jill St. John, June Barrett, BarBara Luna, Tracey E. Bregman,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

When her slimy boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth (Tracy Bregman) to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Hippolyte Girardot, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Francis Girod,

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future. But since Alan doesn't ...

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 : Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum, James W. Quinn, Rob Zapple,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Parapsychologists try to make an inn haunted by an evil witch's ghost safe for guests.

Actors : Laura Gemser, Maria Romano, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to...

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, Rudy Ramos, Mary Stavin, Joseph Bottoms,
Directors : Jag Mundhra,

Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and cooperates with the police to try and stop him. ...

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 : Struan Robertson, Bruce Parry, Bob Mendelsohn, Vicki Saputo,
Directors : Kenneth J. Berton,

An evil demon that inhabits a monkey doll takes over the mind of a suburban housewife to carry out its plans.

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Gamil Ratib,
Directors : Atef E-Taieb,

A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.