Best Psychopath movies of 1980s

Actors : Donna Wilkes, Dane Clark, Antoinette Bower, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Alan J. Levi,

A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.

Actors : William J. Kulzer, Shea Porter, Elizabeth Trosper, George Engelson,
Directors : Howard Heard,

A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.

Actors : Wadeck Stanczak, Lucas Belvaux, Rémi Martin, Ann-Gisel Glass,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

Desorder:in spite of relatively violent scenes,it's a psychological disorder .

Actors : Ross Petty, Shelley Peterson, Jonathan Crombie, Rita Tushingham,
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 : John Judd, Jane Merrow, Edward Woodward, Samantha Weysom,
Directors : Lindsey C. Vickers,

A family is confronted in their house by an evil force.

Actors : Chris Holder, Danny Bonaduce, Molly Cheek, Tony Crupi,
Directors : John McCauley,

A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.

Actors : Y.G. Parthasarathy, Kamal Haasan, Radha, Madhavi,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders

Actors : Cliff De Young, Zoe Trilling, Kay Lenz, Scott Schwartz,
Directors : Robert A. Ferretti,

A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is ...

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Beverly D'Angelo, Kim Coates, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Allan A. Goldstein,

An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.

Actors : Eli Rich, Bonnie Sikowitz, Rochelle Taylor, Dennis Gannon,
Directors : Donald M. Jones,

A serial killer, who is actually a handsome Sunday school teacher, abducts young women and disposes their bodies in the Mojave Desert.

Actors : Xinghai Wang, Junyi Shen,
Directors : Teyuan Mu,

The Tianjin chief of police has a rough time investigating the murders of unidentified women whose bodies are found floating in a river in the 1930s.

Actors : Feng-Jiao Lin, Emily Y. Chang, George Wang, Alan Tam,
Directors : Yao-Chi Chen,

A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.

Actors : Tara, Geetha, Ramesh Bhat, Shankar Nag,
Directors : Perälä,

Is it a serial killer or a ghost that is killing people? Shankar Nag has to unravel the deadly mystery.

Actors : Mirlaine França, Jair Delamare, Sheila Diniz, Alice Dantas,
Directors : Élio Vieira de Araújo,

A psychoanalyst will try anything to help one of his patients, a sexually impotent publicist - and that includes seducing the man's wife.

Actors : Martin Balsam, P.J. Soles, Grigor Taylor, Kit Taylor,
Directors : Colin Eggleston,

A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes. She helps the authorities arrest him, and he is sent to a ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Féodor Atkine, Richard Berry, Carole Laure,
Directors : Michel Vianey,

The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he ...

Actors : Jørgen Kiil, Masja Dessau, Agneta Ekmanner, Buster Larsen,

A mortuary worker uncovers the identity of a serial killer after finding one of his victims in the mortuary's coffins. However, instead of turning him over to the police, he blackmails him. Complications ensue.

Actors : Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci,
Directors : Yvonne Rainer,

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

Actors : Daniel MacIvor, Valerie Buhagiar, Thomas Rickert, Stan Lake,
Directors : Catherine Ord,

A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.

Actors : Marcie Severson, Janet Galen, Russ Fast, B. Joe Medley,
Directors : George Hood,

While awaiting execution, a convicted serial killer relates the story of the circumstances that led to his present situation.