Best Thriller movies of 1980s

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

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

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

Illeagal immigrants from mainland live in poverty and crimes.

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 : 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 ...