Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

Actors : Herbert Lom, Christopher Walken, Tom Skerritt, Brooke Adams,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability.

Actors : Roger Moore, Kristina Wayborn, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams,
Directors : John Glen,

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Maryam d'Abo, Timothy Dalton, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

Actors : Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton, Talisa Soto,
Directors : John Glen,

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, John Houseman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh,
Directors : John Carpenter,

Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.

Actors : Sonja Smits, James Woods, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

When he acquires a different kind of programming for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality.

Actors : Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : John Glen,

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : John McTiernan,

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Actors : Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière, Marc Duret, Anne Parillaud,
Directors : Luc Besson,

Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

Actors : Grace Jones, Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Glen,

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Actors : Billy Zane, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

Actors : Bob Balaban, William Hurt, Charles Haid, Blair Brown,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

Actors : Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Actors : Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Actors : Maria Conchita Alonso, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.

Actors : John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Actors : James Woods, Alan King, Drew Barrymore, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Joe Dante,

An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Diane Venora, Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Robert Mandel,

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.