Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Adel Imam, Sa'eed Saleh, Soad Hosny, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Samir Seif,

The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

Actors : Madhu, Murali, Thilakan, Mohanlal,
Directors : Joshi,

Actors : Maria Ford, Rick Dean, William Katt, Wendy MacDonald,
Directors : Dan Golden,

A city councilman explores the seedy side of town to help him decide how to approach an urban renewal project. Being obviously not from there he is beaten in the street and his wallet ...

Actors : Jenny Liang, Kuan-Chung Ku, Jason Pai Piao, Tony Liu,
Directors : Shan Hua,

An expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who has nothing to do with the theft investigates and is led on the trail of the supernatural "Bloody Parrot".

Actors : Lora Staley, Lawrence Day, Neil Dainard, Lenore Zann,
Directors : Don McBrearty,

A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Crystal Carson, Suzee Slater, Don Stroud,
Directors : John Stewart,

Chuck Taylor is a charter pilot who unknowingly smuggles cocaine for the Cartel into the U.S. Unfortunately he is captured by the feds. Ironically, so is Tony King, boss of the Cartel. The ...

Actors : Bernie Kuby, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Florence Guérin, Géraldine Pernet,

A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek revenge against his blackmailer.

Actors : Ross Petty, Rita Tushingham, Shelley Peterson, Jonathan Crombie,
Directors : Ousama Rawi,

An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and ...

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 : Ellen Horn, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ewa Carlsson, Toralv Maurstad,
Directors : Leidulv Risan,

Two boys who were found sick on a boat in the sea near northern Norway, are hospitalized with mysterious symptoms. Doctor Jon Hoff can't help them, they die shortly after. He finds the same...

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 : John Considine, Cindy Pickett, Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.

Actors : Joe Davis, Brian Leonard, Lysa Heslov, Muneer Katchi,
Directors : John Myhers,

The president's daughter is held for ransom in Beverly Hills by a group of middle eastern terrorists. Retired special forces agent and karate master, Hack Stone, is sent on a risky operation to get her back.

Actors : Li Gong, Xiaoning Liu, Zhaoji Jia, You Ge,

Aircraft hijacking with Chinese special forces rescue. Gong Li as a heroic stewardess.

Actors : Takeshi Itô, Simon Kumai, Kiyomi Itô, June,
Directors : Hisayasu Satô,

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by ...

Actors : Angelo Infanti, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Giovanni Brusadori,
Directors : Bruno Fontana,

Seven commandos lose their captain and must begin a brutal attempt to survive.

Actors : Julian Sands, John Hurt, Victoria Abril, Pamela Salem,

To salve his guilty conscience, an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt, and tries to bring him back to mental competency ...

Actors : Mammootty, Sukumari, Geetha,
Directors : Bhadran,

Vaikundam Soorya Narayana Iyer (Mammootty ), a normal business executive leads a normal family life along with his wife and his mother . One day, up on climbing a tall tree in order to ...

Actors : Julian Sands, Ned Beatty, Stacey Dash, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A British attorney on vacation in Tennessee is blamed for a local murder.

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A young blind woman named Rajni lives in India with her dad, Suresh, who is employed as a Manager with a business marketing tea leaves. The region where they live has a lax police force run...