Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Roy Scheider, Cooper Huckabee, Harley Cross,
Directors : Eric Red,

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly ...

Actors : Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov,
Directors : Rashid Nugmanov,

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ...

Actors : Gail Harris, Melissa Moore, Stacia Zhivago, Barbii,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the ...

Actors : Annabel Schofield, Peter Boyle, Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO ...

Actors : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Stephen Furst,
Directors : Danny Steinmann,

A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement.

Actors : Barbi Benton, Jon Van Ness, Charles Lucia, John Warner Williams,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.

Actors : Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Olivia Pascal, Jasmin Losensky,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : William Asher,

An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.

Actors : John Ireland, John Cassavetes, Helen Hughes, Kerrie Keane,
Directors : John Hough,

In a small town, Roy Seeley and his girlfriend Mandy Pullman are camping by the lake. Out of the blue, they are attacked and Roy is murdered while Mandy is violently raped. Dr. Sam Cordell ...

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Dick Richards,

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Suzanna Hamilton, Sting, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Actors : Zeljko Ivanek, Paul Freeman, Kathryn Harrold, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Roger Christian,

A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him but his mother gets in the way.

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.

Actors : Jody Medford, Bo Hopkins, Wings Hauser, Lee Montgomery,

Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.

Actors : Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Ernst Günther, Håkan Serner,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were...

Actors : Stefan Mavrodiyev, Todor Kolev, Nevena Kokanova, Lyuben Chatalov,
Directors : Ivan Andonov,

He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his ...

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Knepper, Maury Chaykin, Robert Davi,
Directors : Max Reid,

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Actors : Jeremy Child, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Francis Megahy,

An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ...

Actors : John Laughlin, Faye Dunaway, Kim Cattrall, Daniel J. Travanti,
Directors : Roger Holzberg,

A group of adventurers sneak into Cuba to try to recover $1 million in cash that when hidden when Fidel Castro took over in 1959. They find themselves trying to avoid detection by Cuban ...