Best Thriller movies of 1982

Actors : Zeljko Ivanek, Paul Freeman, Kathryn Harrold, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Roger Christian,

A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him but his mother gets in the way.

Actors : François Cluzet, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an ...

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 : Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

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 : 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 : Kristine DeBell, Perry Lang, Linda Hamilton, Robert Carradine,
Directors : Nick Castle,

College assassination game turns deadly as someone starts playing for real.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Morgan Fairchild, Vince Edwards, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : David Schmoeller,

A popular anchorwoman, Jaime Douglas is stalked by an obsessed fan with a camera who wants more than just her picture.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Sébastien Grenier,a secret agent eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American ...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Robin Gammell, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

Actors : Barbara Gordon, Nicholas Campbell, Gina Dick, Henry Silva,
Directors : William Fruet,

When a group of college students come across a redneck in the wilderness murdering his wife's lover, they become the objects of his crazed vengeance.

Actors : Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, Shawn von Schreiber, James Naughton,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

The 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker...

Actors : Jill St. John, June Barrett, BarBara Luna, Tracey E. Bregman,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

When her slimy boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth (Tracy Bregman) to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a ...

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Perry King, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : Laura Gemser, Maria Romano, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to...

Actors : Arnold Marquis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert,
Directors : Wolf Gremm,

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Actors : Lynne Margulies, Christopher Barkett, Sid Haig, Steve Barkett,
Directors : Steve Barkett,

Two astronauts return to earth ("a few miles off the coast of Los Angeles") to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw ...

Actors : Erik van 't Wout, Adriaan Olree, Renée Soutendijk, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working on the streets of Paris during the 1880s.