Best Thriller movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Matthew Wong, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, 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 : 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 : Cynthia Rothrock, Suki Kwan, Ken Tong, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

Martial arts adventure about a tough FBI cop (Cynthia Rothrock) high-kicking her way to the final showdown with a Chinese Mafia boss.

Actors : Selahattin Firat, Yadigar Ejder, Oya Aydogan, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Haydar (Tarik Akan) is a government official who has marital problems. One night as a result of a quarrel with his wife, he goes out and starts wandering in the dark streets of Beyoglu, a ...

Actors : Cecilia Yip, Ken Tong, Pat Ha, Leslie Cheung,

Actors : Srividya, Mammootty, Madhu, Captain Raju,
Directors : Jomon,

The movie narrates the story of an underworld Don's upraise and fall.

Actors : Marvin Goldhar, Jeannie Elias, Sharon Masters, Stephen Young,
Directors : Mario Azzopardi,

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world...

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Page Hannah, Larry B. Scott, Raphael Sbarge,
Directors : Roger L. Simon,

A pizza delivery lad, who fantasises about his dream girl and what heroic deed he can perform to make her notice him, gets involved in a murder.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Jappe Claes, Michael Sarrazin, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Patrick Conrad,

A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a fervent opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very ...

Actors : Jason Hoganson, Jamie Foreman, Cathryn Harrison, Glen Murphy,
Directors : Ron Peck,

In London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.

Actors : John Smihula, Fred Borges, Paul Smihula, Michael Siegal,
Directors : Nathan Schiff,

A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A ...

Actors : Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Donna Akersten,
Directors : Mike Newell,

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Actors : John Shepherd, John Ireland, Jill Whitlow, Forrest Tucker,
Directors : Gary Hudson,

Charlie, a Korean War veteran, is driving a truck which is transporting plutonium from Nevada to Arizona. But there are a bunch of terrorists who want to steal the stuff...

Actors : Yasuhiro Shikamura, Simon Yam, Phillip Ko, Joey Wang,
Directors : Phillip Ko,

A triad assassin is sent to kill a female witness to a murder only to fall in love with her instead. A Hong Kong remake of the Japanese manga Crying Freeman.

Actors : Stuart Chapin, Rif Hutton, David Marriott, Metanel Ryan,
Directors : Addison Randall,

Detective Ian 'Shotgun' Jones hunts a sadistic misogynistic maniac.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Talia Balsam, Paul Le Mat, Clayton Rohner,
Directors : Nigel Dick,

A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.