Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Blackie Dammett, Brent Huff, Emilia Crow,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

Two anti-terrorist agents are assigned to free a busload of American schoolchildren in the Philippines who are taken hostage by terrorists.

Actors : Elpidia Carrillo, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Richard Gere,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

Dr. Eduardo Plarr, despite the name is an Anglo working in a Latin American country. His work is a return home after several years. He begins to form and re-establish friendships and begins...

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Stan Shaw, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Rockne S. O'Bannon,

Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ...

Actors : Wolfgang Kieling, Götz George, Renée Soutendijk, Hannes Jaenicke,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it ...

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in ...

Actors : Scott Glenn, Edward Fox, Barbara Carrera, Laurence Olivier,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

A man is pursued by killers after helping someone at a car crash.

Actors : Jason Robards, Mark Joy, Tom Hulce, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Brigitte Lahaie, Helmut Berger, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold,

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite ...

Actors : Robin Lilly, Lori Romero, Rich Hamilton, Michael Robertson,
Directors : Mik Cribben,

A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ravi Chopra,

A dedicated railway employee's plan to introduce an express train result in sabotage.

Actors : María Rojo, Héctor Bonilla, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau,
Directors : Jorge Fons,

A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.

Actors : Kathy LaCommare, Ric Randig, Dick Biel, Forbes Riley,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof's replacement ...

Actors : Nick Mancuso, John Marley, Kim Basinger, Charlton Heston,

A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Aamir Khan, Supriya Pathak, Jagdeep,
Directors : Aditya Bhattacharya,

A poor, young man teams up with a burnt out cop to avenge the humiliation of his former girlfriend by a gang of goons.

Actors : Jack Hallett, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicholas Love,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

Actors : Betsy Russell, Ossie Davis, Susan Tyrrell, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. ...