Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Ava Gardner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, William Shatner,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript ...

Actors : Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, Ben Masters, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Keith Carradine, Karen Allen, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.

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 : Louis Ducreux, Brigitte Fossey, Alain Lalanne, Patrick Floersheim,
Directors : René Manzor,

Thomas, a very intelligent and resourceful child, is left alone with his beloved and fragile granddad on Christmas Eve, when a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus breaks into their mansion ...

Actors : Sven Wollter, Ernst Günther, Pia Green, Anita Wall,
Directors : Kjell Sundvall,

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up ...

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Emma Penella, Maribel Verdú, José Luis Gómez,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A couple of ruffians enters a tobacconist in the neighborhood of Vallecas to steal. Having failed in its intention they finish entrench themselves in the place, being surrounded by police.

Actors : Stephen Hunter, Janet-Laine Green, Jonathan Crombie, Dehl Berti,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now ...

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 : Charlie Stratton, Harold Pruett, Chuck Connors, Adam Carl,
Directors : Bert L. Dragin,

A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.

Actors : Mitch Watson, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton, Patrick Lowe,
Directors : Vittorio Rambaldi,

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertantly creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college ...

Actors : Susan Hogan, Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, David Bolt,
Directors : John Huston,

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Actors : Leonardo Treviglio, Lara Wendel, Valeria D'Obici, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A man becomes aware that his wife has been having an affair resulting in a violent argument. Shortly afterward she is murdered and he becomes the chief suspect.

Actors : Sverre Anker Ousdal, Malin Ek, Stellan Skarsgård, Marie Göranzon,
Directors : Hans Alfredson,

John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she ...

Actors : John Van Dreelen, Thom Hoffman, Marijke Veugelers, Lysette Anthony,
Directors : Rudolf van den Berg,

After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's ...

Actors : Priscilla Pointer, Geoffrey Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Pamela Gidley,
Directors : Charles Winkler,

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he ...

Actors : Scott Jacoby, Brendan Hughes, Amanda Wyss, Sydney Walsh,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

L.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Alexandra Stewart, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : George Kaczender,

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all. A copywriter begins to suspect that the ...

Actors : Mako, David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Lois Hamilton,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to ...

Actors : Lana Clarkson, David McCallum, Nicole Eggert, Christopher Halsted,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown up and stands to inherit money set up by her ...