Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Leon, Dale Midkiff, Melissa Leo,
Directors : Joan Freeman,

Cookie and her brother run away from their loveless mother in the province and arrive in New York. At the train station Cookie meets the fancy man Duke. With his charm he makes her fall in ...

Actors : Ming Chen, Feng Chi, Shen Chan, Hung Yen,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.

Actors : Dan Haggerty, Lawrence King-Phillips, William Nunn, Roberta Weiss,
Directors : Boon Collins,

A woman jogger is abducted by a crazy mountain man, and taken to his cabin.

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Mariko Kaga, Katsuo Nakamura, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Actors : Amin Tarokh, Jalal Moghadam, Hadi Eslami, Farimah Farjami,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents...

Actors : Richard Harris, Beverly D'Angelo, Christopher Plummer, Kate Reid,
Directors : Peter Carter,

James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia and C.I.A. operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and ...

Actors : Bettina Giovannini, Leonard Mann, Francesca Muzio, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Cesare Ferrario,

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing...

Actors : Terry-David Després, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney, Tom Nardini,

During a police strike in Nova Scotia's capital city, a gang of hoodlums end up unintentionally causing the owner of a gay bar to be killed. This escalates into a string of murders with a lone survivor trying to not be next.

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Jacques Nolot, Richard Anconina, Hélène Surgère,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson, Charles Dance,
Directors : Stephen Poliakoff,

Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the ...

Actors : Julio Alemán, Nuria Bages, Pedro Fernández, Gabriela Hassel,
Directors : René Cardona III,

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the ...

Actors : Amrita Singh, Raj Babbar, Alok Nath, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Ranjit Varma and his younger brother, Ravi works for a notorious criminal, Veljibhai Soda. While Ranjit is Veljibhai defense advocate; Ravi does all his unlawful activities. On one ...

Actors : Raymond Burr, Martin Landau, Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange ...

Actors : Stan Wojno, Gordon De Vol, Jacqueline Ray, Jackson Bostwick,

A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

Actors : Lea Thompson, Jean Simmons, Chris Lemmon, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : James Kenelm Clarke,

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip ...

Actors : Olivia Hussey, Vernon Wells, Danny Lee, Peter Liapis,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.

Actors : Sami Frey, Didier Kaminka, Jane Birkin, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : François Leterrier,

Actors : Anna Samokhina, Boris Shcherbakov, Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Steklov,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Actors : Barbara De Rossi, Marina Suma, Athina Cenci, Mara Venier,
Directors : Franco Ferrini,

A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend ...