Best Thriller movies of 1980s

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 : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, 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 : Nicholas Campbell, Barbara Gordon, 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 : 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 : 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 : Suzanna Love, Keir Dullea, Ryan Seitz, Vera Miles,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman ...

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 : Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : S. Ramanathan,

This movie is a remake of the popular blockbuster Kannada movie Shankar Guru (1978) starring Dr.Rajkumar.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, Gila von Weitershausen, David Suchet,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Actors : Phillip Ko, Jung Wang, Maria Jo, Norman Chu,
Directors : Kuen Yeung,

A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab.

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 : Paul Clemens, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

Actors : Solly Marx, Sydney Lassick, Viveca Lindfors, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Simon Nuchtern,

After a computer glitch accidentally releases a homicidal maniac, his doctor and some hospital staff track a trail of bodies to the sorority house where the killer committed his earlier crimes.

Actors : Kevin O'Connor, Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.

Actors : Suzane Carvalho, Gloria Cristal, Rossana Ghessa, Henri Pagnoncelli,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Fabio Testi, Rock Hudson,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader.

Actors : Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Vincent Spano, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Amos Poe,

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Dennis Hopper, Gösta Ekman, Kåre Mölder,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

"The Inside Man" is based on a real-life incident during the days of the Cold War when a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish waters.