Best Thriller movies of 1981

Actors : Gregg Henry, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the ...

Actors : Annie McEnroe, Andrea Marcovicci, Bruce McGill, Michael Caine,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and ...

Actors : Julie Brown, Melinda Cordell, Joe Penny, Lori Lethin,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Peter DuPre, Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Biehn, James Garner,
Directors : Ed Bianchi,

Douglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones.

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

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

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 : Lesley-Anne Down, John Gielgud, Maurice Ronet, Frank Langella,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Actors : Robert Powell, Angela Punch McGregor, Joseph Cotten, Jenny Agutter,
Directors : David Hemmings,

A plane crashes just after takeoff and the only survivor, the pilot, walks out of the wreckage. He doesn't remember the crash, but 300 passengers and crew are dead. As the investigation goes on people are wanting answers.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Peter Zinner,

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect...

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...

Actors : Leonard Frey, Frederikke Borge, Bruce Dern, Maud Adams,
Directors : Bob Brooks,

A troubled tattoo artist has designs on a model.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Savage, Arthur Hill, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his ...

Actors : Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ...

Actors : Carlo De Mejo, Franca Stoppi, Francesca Carmeno, Susan Forget,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot!

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Tom Skerritt, Anne-Marie Martin,
Directors : Robert L. Collins,

A family in Africa finds itself under attack by a pride of lions.