Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Sreenivasan, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Mohanlal, Ambika,
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 : 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 : Rick Washburn, Dog Thomas, Keith Bogart, J. Christian Ingvordsen,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. ...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Alexandre Arbatt, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Richard Dembo,

Two masters of chess duel each other not only in their game but also in their different ideologies. The veteran Akiva is a Soviet Jew and ferocious Communist, master of his game but also ...

Actors : Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Predrag Ejdus, Vesna Stanojevic,
Directors : Aleksandar Boskovic,

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him, he wants to establish the way of his own justice. As ...

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Max Gail,
Directors : Bruce Malmuth,

Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Biao Yuen, Roy Chiao, Melvin Wong,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a key witness and his entire family are ...

Actors : Lennart Hjulström, Stellan Skarsgård, Philip Zandén, Krister Henriksson,
Directors : Per Berglund,

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated.

Actors : Jacques Penot, Mathilda May, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

After separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette. Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert. When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him.

Actors : Vanni Corbellini, Daria Nicolodi, David Brandon, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally ...

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : Mehmet Akan, Yasar Alptekin, Müjde Ar, Ayse Demirel,
Directors : Halit Refig,

7 yo Umur falls in love with his much older aunt in the midst of political upheaval and dysfunctions of his family.

Actors : William Prince, Jeremiah Sullivan, Alberta Watson, Ken Wahl,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Kurt Christopher Kinder, Gary Busey,
Directors : Matthew Patrick,

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Actors : Rainbow Harvest, William Sanderson, Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo,
Directors : Marina Sargenti,

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

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 ...

Actors : Kelli Maroney, Daniel Hirsch, Nicole Rio, Tom Shell,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.

Actors : Roger Moore, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince two ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jean-François Balmer, François Cluzet, Jane Seymour,

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...