Best Thriller movies of 1980s

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. ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount,
Directors : Robert Collector,

Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.

Actors : Vanni Corbellini, David Brandon, Daria Nicolodi, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ram Gopal Bajaj, Benjamin Gilani, Nina Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale,
Directors : Ketan Mehta,

In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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.