Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Ron Houck, Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Peter Weller,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

Actors : Jared Martin, Lara Lamberti, Sophie d'Aulan, Ulli Reinthaler,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls boarding school to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Janardanan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Mammootty, Suresh Gopi,
Directors : K. Madhu,

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) led by Sethuram Iyer investigate an unnatural death.

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

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

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 : Judie Aronson, Ramy Zada, Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon,

Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Scott Glenn, Joe Pesci, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Élie Chouraqui,

A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.

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 : Sreenivasan, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Ambika, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sathyan Anthikad,

Six months after the events of the prequel (Nadodikattu), C.I.D. officers Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Srinivasan) are called to Kerala to find the murderer of a police officer. The two ...

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.