Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen, Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett,
Directors : Rob Hedden,

A boat of graduating high school students bound for Manhattan pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride.

Actors : Lar Park-Lincoln, John Otrin, Jennifer Banko, Susan Blu,
Directors : John Carl Buechler,

Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the dormant Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a telekinetic teenager.

Actors : Bruce Davison, Gordon Hunt, Anthony Perkins, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day, prostitute by night, and accused of murder, is hounded by two men: a married father of two, and a sexually repressed preacher.

Actors : Karl Malden, Maureen Stapleton, Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Actors : John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Craig T. Nelson, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the C.I.A. that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country, are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security, ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Michel Galabru, Richard Bohringer, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Luc Besson,

Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this surreal setting. The Roller is a rollerskating ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Elizabeth McGovern,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., David Suchet, Jason Gedrick, Larry B. Scott,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Heroic young pilot Doug Masters launches a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force veteran, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Paul Shenar, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't ...

Actors : Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

Actors : John Colicos, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Actors : Wendy Morgan, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

Miss Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Victoria Tennant, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Jeffrey Bloom,

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Patrick O'Neal, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...

Actors : Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Colin Firth, Liz Smith,
Directors : Martin Donovan,

Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Liam Neeson, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Irvin,

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Actors : Sheila Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Cooper, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Philip Ridley,

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Sharon Acker, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Actors : Fred Ward, Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Franklyn Seales,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ...

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

An elite Navy Seals unit set out to locate and destroy a stockpile of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.