| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1980 |
| Dressed to Kill |
Brian De Palma |
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen |
 |
Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Harlequin |
Simon Wincer |
Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings |
 |
Political thriller, Supernatural thriller |
| The Watcher in the Woods |
John Hough |
Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards |
 |
Supernatural thriller |
| 1981 |
| Blow Out |
Brian De Palma |
John Travolta |
|
Political thriller, Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Body Heat |
Lawrence Kasdan |
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner |
|
Erotic thriller |
| A Choice of Arms |
Alain Corneau |
Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve |
 |
|
| Diva |
Jean-Jacques Beineix |
Frederic Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Eyewitness |
Peter Yates |
William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer |
|
|
| Garde à vue |
Claude Miller |
Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Ms. 45 |
Abel Ferrara |
Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau |
|
Crime thriller |
| Roadgames |
Richard Franklin |
Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward |
|
|
| Thief |
Michael Mann |
James Caan |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1982 |
| First Blood |
Ted Kotcheff |
Sylvester Stallone |
|
Action thriller |
| Still of the Night |
Robert Benton |
Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy |
|
|
| Sudden Impact |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle |
|
|
| Tenebrae |
Dario Argento |
Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Turkey Shoot |
Brian Trenchard-Smith |
Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig |
|
|
| 1983 |
| The Fourth Man |
Paul Verhoeven |
Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman |
 |
Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Mortelle Randonnée |
Claude Miller |
Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Geneviève Page |
|
Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| The Star Chamber |
Peter Hyams |
Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto |
|
|
| WarGames |
John Badham |
Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman |
|
Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller |
| 1984 |
| Blood Simple |
Joel Coen |
John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya |
|
Crime thriller |
| Body Double |
Brian De Palma |
Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry |
|
Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Crimes of Passion |
Ken Russell |
Kathleen Turner |
|
Erotic thriller |
| The Evil That Men Do |
J. Lee Thompson |
Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher |
|
|
| Missing in Action |
Joseph Zito |
Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf |
|
Action thriller |
| The Strangler vs. the Strangler |
Slobodan Šijan |
Taško Načić, Srđan Šaper, Sonja Savić |
 |
|
| Tightrope |
Richard Tuggle |
Clint Eastwood |
|
Crime thriller |
| Toy Soldiers |
David Fisher |
Jason Miller, Cleavon Little, Terri Garber |
|
Action thriller |
| 1985 |
| The Holcroft Covenant |
John Frankenheimer |
Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant |
|
|
| Jagged Edge |
Richard Marquand |
Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges |
|
Psychological thriller |
| To Live and Die in L.A. |
William Friedkin |
William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe |
|
Crime thriller, Action thriller |
| The Mean Season |
Phillip Borsos |
Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan |
|
|
| On ne meurt que deux fois |
Jacques Deray |
Michel Serrault, Charlotte Rampling, Xavier DeLuc |
|
Crime thriller |
| Rambo: First Blood Part II |
George Pan Cosmatos |
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier |
|
Action thriller |
| Subway |
Luc Besson |
Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bacri |
|
|
| The Trap |
Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi |
Tony Musante, Laura Antonelli |
|
Erotic thriller |
| Witness |
Peter Weir |
Harrison Ford |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1986 |
| A Better Tomorrow |
John Woo |
Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung |
 |
Action thriller |
| Blue Velvet |
David Lynch |
Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper |
|
Crime thriller |
| Heroes Shed No Tears |
John Woo |
Eddy Ko |
|
Action thriller |
| The Manhattan Project |
Marshall Brickman |
John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon |
|
|
| Manhunter |
Michael Mann |
William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen |
|
Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| The Matador |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas |
 |
Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Murphy's Law |
J. Lee Thompson |
Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress |
|
|
| 1987 |
| Angel Heart |
Alan Parker |
Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| The Bedroom Window |
Curtis Hanson |
Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Big Easy |
Jim McBride |
Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin |
|
|
| Black Widow |
Bob Rafelson |
Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey |
|
|
| City on Fire |
Ringo Lam |
Chow Yun-Fat, Sun Yueh, Danny Lee |
|
Crime thriller |
| Cold Steel |
Dorothy Ann Puzo |
Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks |
|
|
| Fatal Attraction |
Adrian Lyne |
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close |
|
Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| House of Games |
David Mamet |
Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum |
|
Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| Lethal Weapon |
Richard Donner |
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover |
|
Action thriller |
| No Way Out |
Roger Donaldson |
Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young |
|
Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| Opera |
Dario Argento |
Christina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi |
|
Psychological thriller, Giallo |
| Prison on Fire |
Ringo Lam |
Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Kar-Fai |
 |
Action thriller |
| Someone to Watch over Me |
Ridley Scott |
Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco |
|
|
| Stripped to Kill |
Katt Shea Ruben |
Kay Lenz, Greg Evigan |
|
Erotic thriller |
| The Untouchables |
Brian De Palma |
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1988 |
| A Better Tomorrow II |
John Woo |
Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu, Waise Lee |
|
Action thriller |
| Body of Evidence |
Roy Campanella II |
Barry Bostwick, Margot Kidder |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Cop |
James B. Harris |
James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning |
|
|
| Dead Ringers |
David Cronenberg |
Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Die Hard |
John McTiernan |
Bruce Willis |
|
Action thriller |
| Jack's Back |
Rowdy Herrington |
James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Roi Loomis |
|
|
| Rambo III |
Peter MacDonald |
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge |
|
Action thriller |
| Red Heat |
Walter Hill |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle |
|
Action thriller |
| The Vanishing |
George Sluizer |
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1989 |
| Dead Calm |
Phillip Noyce |
Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Killer |
John Woo |
Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh |
|
Action thriller |
| Lethal Weapon 2 |
Richard Donner |
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci |
|
Action thriller |
| Sea of Love |
Harold Becker |
Al Pacino |
|
Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Violent Cop |
Beat Takeshi Kitano |
Beat Takeshi Kitano |
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