Best Thriller movies of 1980

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 : 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 : Silvia Dionisio, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.

Actors : Hilda Vera, Victoria Abril, Lautaro Murúa, Perla Vonasek,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Luis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted to him.

Actors : Leny Escudéro, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Actors : Richard Harrison, Jang Lee Hwang, Bruce Le, Nadiuska,

Two CIA agents - a kung fu master (Bruce Le) and a suave womanizer (Richard Harrison) - track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.

Actors : Stan Wojno, Gordon De Vol, Jacqueline Ray, Jackson Bostwick,

A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

Actors : Susan Chapek, Bernard McKenna, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.

Actors : Ming Chen, Feng Chi, Hung Yen, Shen Chan,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.

Actors : Patty Dunning, Susan Plumb, Russell S. Doughten Jr., William Wellman Jr.,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

Third and best known entry in the Mark IV series of fundamentalist apocalypse films. Fundamentalist Christian guerrilla David helps condemned dissidents escape, attempts to subvert the ...

Actors : Raymond Burr, Martin Landau, Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange ...

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Telly Savalas, Danny De La Paz, Eddie Albert,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

US Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California.

Actors : Gary Waddell, Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : Sing Chen, Eddie Chan, Kent Cheng, Ching Yee Chong,
Directors : Dennis Yu,

A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

Actors : Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Lap Ban Chan,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Aruna Irani, Poonam Dhillon, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

Anand lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay in a palatial house, and runs a business 'Export India'. While shopping at Roopsagar Clothing Store, he meets one of the Sales Clerks', Sharda, and...

Actors : Ian Scott, James Johnson, Jerry McGee, Judith-Marie Bergan,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.

Actors : Jade Hsu, Adam Cheng, Qiqi Chen, Norman Chu,
Directors : Patrick Tam,

Actors : André Falcon, Philippe Noiret, Dorothée, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

For inspector Baroni,Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife.

Actors : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Michael Paul Chan, Max Gail,
Directors : Murray Mintz,

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a ...