Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise,
Directors : John Lafia,

While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Actors : Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Balthazar Getty,
Directors : Harry Hook,

Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.

Actors : Mike Nussbaum, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Lilia Skala,
Directors : David Mamet,

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

Actors : John Savage, James Belushi, James Woods, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.

Actors : Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Mako, Matthew Modine, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, Warren Clarke, David Huffman,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink

Actors : Charles Lanyer, Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Gere,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Mario Van Peebles, Lance Guest, Karen Young,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...

Actors : Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Paul Kelman, Keith Knight,
Directors : George Mihalka,

A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Actors : Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, Rae Dawn Chong, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter.

Actors : Heather Langenkamp, John Tesh, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Actors : Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick,
Directors : Charles E. Sellier Jr.,

After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.

Actors : Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Assumpta Serna, Eva Cobo,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish...

Actors : Fred Ward, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, U.S.Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.