Best Thriller movies of 1980s

Actors : Fred Ward, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, U.S.Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.

Actors : Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Cliff Robertson, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Douglas Trumbull,

Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher ...

Actors : Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Actors : Stacey Pickren, Carmen Argenziano, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : John Landis,

Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him, and his job is dull. One night, he starts to drive through Los Angeles, and he finally ends in the parking ...

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Jason Robards, Royal Dano, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale,
Directors : Tom Holland,

When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Actors : John Houseman, Fred Astaire, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Actors : Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard, Tracie Savage,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees takes refuge at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing spree.

Actors : Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.

Actors : Dennis Hopper, Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.

Actors : Gene Bervoets, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gwen Eckhaus, Johanna ter Steege,
Directors : George Sluizer,

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

John Preston is a British agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the 'special relationship' between the two countries.

Actors : Carl McCoy, Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch,
Directors : Richard Stanley,

The head of a cyborg reactivates and rebuilds itself and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Philip Martin Brown, Stephen MacKenna, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

Actors : Paul Shenar, Sam Wanamaker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : John Irvin,

A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.