Pluto

Michael Douglas plays Dan, a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest while his wife is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever.

Fatal Attraction

The summer of 1964... Two FBI agents--one a tight-jawed, by-the-book type, the other an experienced Southern lawman who knows how to handle people--head the government's investigation into the disappearance of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.

Mississippi Burning

A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability.

The Dead Zone

Charles Bronson plays a tough L.A. cop whose daughter is stalked by a cunning sex-killer in this riveting police thriller that offers a first-rate cast including Wilford Brimley.

10 To Midnight

Julian Kay has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills' swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp and the trick turns up dead a short while later.

American Gigolo (1980)

A son wants to be like his father and earn himself a place in the family crime syndicate. Together with his brother, he forms his own gang to gain his dad's respect. Efforts backfire as the father fears that he is losing control.

At Close Range

The classic George Orwell story set in a world where absolute conformity in action, word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother, is demanded.

1984

A Philadelphia sound-effects man witnesses and records a car accident that turns out to be a politically motivated murder.

Blow Out

A psycho-killer stalks two New York City women--one a frustrated housewife, the other a street-smart hooker who teams up with the first woman's son to trap the murderer. The film reaches a shocking climax when the slayer's real identity is revealed.

Dressed to Kill

Super-sleuth Hercule Poirot becomes friendly with a young psychiatrist, Sarah King, while on a cruise.  Sarah becomes infatuated with another passenger, Raymond Boynton, who is totally dominated by his mother, and she discourages any notions of romance.

Appointment With Death

The lives of a group of teenagers are thrown into a moral spin when one murders his girlfriend. Faced with the brutal reality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police.

River's Edge

Attorney Oldman successfully defends accused killer Kevin Bacon. It is only after proving his client's innocence by discrediting eyewitness, that Oldman discovers Bacon is guilty--and intends to kill again.

Criminal Law

A thief named Quint is hired by the Justice Department to steal incriminating tapes from a corrupt corporation. The tapes vanish when Quint hides them in the back of a hydrodynamic powered racing car that is stolen by a hot car ring.

Black Moon Rising

There’s a psychopath on the loose in Manhattan who is stalking and mutilating beautiful strippers employed by booking agents Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger – Platoon, Inception) and Nicky Parzeno (Jack Scalia).

Fear City

A down-on-his-luck journalist tells his editor that he has an exclusive interview with a Times Square pimp in order to get an assignment. He then fabricates a story identical to that of an infamous pimp wanted by the police for murder.

Street Smart

An uptight female psychiatrist attempts to intercede with a con man on behalf of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler who owes him several thousand dollars. She is sucked into a world of mirrors where nothing is what it seems.

House of Games

In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey, risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.

The Name of the Rose

A newspaper reporter (Kurt Russell) becomes the unwitting ally of a vicious serial killer (Richard Jordan) who contacts the reporter and appoints him his spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.

The Mean Season

Three mutilated bodies are found in Moscow's Gorky Park, and it's up to Russian police officer Arkady Renko to find the maniacal killer. From the best-selling mystery novel by Martin Cruz Smith.

Gorky Park

A killer comedy that has an ex-cop trailing a serial murderer... and the mayor's sexy daughter! Kevin Kline leads an all-star cast that includes Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel, and Rod Steiger.

The January Man

Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly star in this psychological drama about a wealthy young woman who becomes tangled in a web of passion, deceit and heart-stopping suspense after her stepfather wants her killed.

Masquerade

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.

Class of 1984

A psychiatrist, living in Vienna, enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

Debra Winger and Tom Berenger star in this tense, provocative tale of betrayal about an FBI agent who falls for a murder suspect with a shocking secret. John Heard, John Mahoney, Richard Libertini, Betsy Blair and Ted Levine co-star.

'80s Thriller Movies

All '80s Thriller Movies, listed alphabetically