Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Actors : Régis Arpin, David Behar, Dominique Blanc, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cintia Lodetti, Cristina Lay, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is ...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : William Lustig,

A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Tanya Roberts, Cooper Huckabee, Veronica Henson-Phillips,
Directors : Jag Mundhra,

A security guard is hired to gather evidence of adultery against the wife of the rock star and ends up getting involved with her.

Actors : Laura Premica, José Gras, Andrea Albani, Peter John Saunders,
Directors : Paul Grau,

A man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his family.

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.

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 : Jing Chen, Lung Jiang, Ling Chow, Jian Huang,
Directors : Johnny Mak,

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Philippe Noiret, James Belushi, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In...

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 : Sidney Brammer, Robert A. Burns, Berkley Garrett, Dennis Hill,
Directors : Mark Blair,

After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's...

Actors : Robin Gammell, Sara Botsford, John Houseman, 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 : Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Brett Halsey, Stefano Madia,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor to various sexual torture acts whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend.

Actors : Tandy Cronyn, Christian Slater, Lois Smith, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Adam Holender,

One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big...

Actors : Uma Thurman, Paul Richards, Steve Buscemi, Paul Dillon,
Directors : Peter Ily Huemer,

At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is ...

Actors : Struan Robertson, Bruce Parry, Bob Mendelsohn, Vicki Saputo,
Directors : Kenneth J. Berton,

An evil demon that inhabits a monkey doll takes over the mind of a suburban housewife to carry out its plans.

Actors : Christine Amor, Leon Lissek, Ian Williams, Helen Thomson,
Directors : Alec Mills,

A serial killer is loose at an all girl school, where he strangles girls with a piece of barbed wire.

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 ...