Thriller Movies
Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (1980)
A wounded Vietnam Vet and his pals save a small town from a crazed cult leader and his maniac killer gang
The Sea Wolves (1980)
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation…
Alligator (1980)
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers…
Hangar 18 (1980)
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its…
The Stunt Man (1980)
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady…
The Island (1980)
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive…
Demented (1980)
A woman is gang-raped in a horse’s stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while…
The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world…
Carnapping – Ordered Stolen and Sold (1980)
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated…
The Private Eyes (1980)
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord’s ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and…
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner’s long lost daughter, who mysteriously…
Die Laughing (1980)
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for…
The Return (1980)
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…
Girl with the Golden Panties (1980)
When Time Ran Out… (1980)
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property’s developer and a drilling foreman.
Defiance (1980)
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though…
Bad Timing (1980)
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he’s attracted to her young,…
S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Foxes (1980)
A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates’ delusions, allowing them free rein to express…
Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.
Cuba Crossing (1980)
An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
The Hard Way (1980)
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough. Seeking to retire to Dublin…
Cruising (1980)
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city’s underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture…
Saturn 3 (1980)
In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also…
Wolf Lake (1980)
War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David’s status as…
To All a Goodnight (1980)
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
Her Name Was Lisa (1980)
Beautiful, innocent Lisa has been found dead of a heroin overdose. At her funeral, the people in her life gather to memorialize her, reflecting on how their own deeds sent…
The Godsend (1980)
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange…
Windows (1980)
Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and…
Cuba (1979)
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista’s army against Castro’s guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous…