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1980 thriller films
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The list 1980 thriller films includes
Cruising, Windows, The Outsider and The Beast to Die.
The list consists of 26 members
and 1 sublist.
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Dressed to Kill
1980 film directed by Brian De Palma
Overview: Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic psychological thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. It depicts the events leading ...
Release date: 25 July 1980Genre: Horror, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: Brian De PalmaProducer: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Fred C. CarusoWriter: Brian De PalmaA mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
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Zoom In: Rape Apartments
1980 Japanese film
Overview: Zoom In: Rape Apartments (ズームイン 暴行団地, Zoom In: Bōkō Danchi) is a 1980 violent pink film in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series. It was director Naosuke Kurosawa's debut work.Genre: HorrorDirector: Naosuke KurosawaCast: Yûko Araragi, Yôko Azusa, Beniko Iida, Hidetoshi Kageyama, Yûko Katagiri, Toshikatsu MatsukazeProducer: Chiho Katsura, Yoshihisa Nakagawa 0
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The Babysitter
American TV series or program
Overview: The Babysitter is a 1980 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Peter Medak and starring Patty Duke Astin, William Shatner and Stephanie Zimbalist about a young girl hired as a live-in ...Release date: 28 November 1980Genre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: Peter MedakProducer: David Garcia Jr., Frank von ZerneckWriter: Jennifer MillerOverprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18 year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help... 0
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The Watcher in the Woods
1980 film by John Hough and Vincent McEveety
Overview: The Watcher in the Woods is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Hough and Vincent McEveety and starring Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, and David M ...Release date: 17 April 1980Genre: Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, FantasyDirector: John Hough, Vincent McEveetyCast: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Benedict TaylorProducer: Brian Clemens, Gerry DayWhen a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past. 0
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The Unseen
1980 film by Danny Steinmann
Overview: The Unseen is a 1980 American slasher film directed and written by Danny Steinmann (credited as "Peter Foleg’), and starring Stephen Furst, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, and Lelia Goldoni. Its plot follows ...Release date: 1 September 1980Genre: Thriller, HorrorDirector: Danny SteinmannProducer: Don Behrns, Howard GoldfarbWriter: Michael L. Grace, Kim HenkelA trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement. 0
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The Mirror Crack'd
1980 film by Guy Hamilton
Overview: The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side ...Release date: 19 December 1980Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: Guy HamiltonCast: Angela Lansbury, Wendy Morgan, Margaret Courtenay, Charles Gray, Maureen Bennett, Carolyn PicklesProducer: John Brabourne, Richard B. GoodwinWriter: Agatha Christie, Jonathan HalesJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim. 0
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The Changeling
1980 Canadian supernatural psychological horror film
Overview: The Changeling is a 1980 Canadian supernatural horror film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, and Melvyn Douglas. Its plot follows an esteemed New York City composer ...
Release date: 28 March 1980Genre: Horror, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: Peter MedakProducer: Garth H. Drabinsky, Mario KassarWriter: Russell Hunter, William GrayAfter the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery ... 0
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Maniac
1980 American horror film by William Lustig
Overview: Maniac is a 1980 American psychological slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by C. A. Rosenberg and Joe Spinell. It stars Spinell as Frank Zito, an Italian-American serial killer residing ...Release date: 1 May 1980Genre: Drama, Horror, ThrillerDirector: William LustigProducer: Andrew W. Garroni, Judd HamiltonWriter: C.A. Rosenberg, Joe SpinellA psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City. 0
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Cruising
1980 film by William Friedkin
Overview: Cruising is a 1980 crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by The New York ...
Release date: 8 February 1980Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: William FriedkinProducer: Burtt Harris, Jerry WeintraubWriter: William Friedkin, Gerald WalkerA police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men. 0
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The Boogey Man
1980 film by Ulli Lommel
Overview: The Boogey Man is a 1980 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Ulli Lommel, and starring Suzanna Love, John Carradine, and Ron James. The film's title refers to the long-held supe ...Release date: 7 November 1980Genre: HorrorDirector: Ulli LommelProducer: Gillian Gordon, Ulli LommelWriter: Ulli Lommel, Suzanna LoveThrough the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder. 0
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Night Games
1980 film
Overview: Night Games is a 1980 erotic thriller film directed by Roger Vadim. It was released in France as Jeux de Nuit.
Release date: 11 April 1980Genre: DramaDirector: Roger VadimProducer: Roger Lewis, Andre MorganWriter: Anton Diether, Clarke ReynoldsBewildering tale of a sexually repressed woman able to be aroused only by a guy in a bird suit. 0
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Mother's Day
1980 film by Charlie Kaufman
Overview: Mother's Day is a 1980 American rape and revenge slasher film directed, co-written and produced by Charles Kaufman, brother of Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Kaufman (who acted as an associate p ...Release date: 1 September 1980Genre: Horror, Thriller, ComedyDirector: Charles KaufmanCast: Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Frederick Coffin, Michael McCleery, Beatrice PonsProducer: Alexander Beck, Michael HerzWriter: Charles Kaufman, Warren LeightTwo brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother. 0
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The Last Song
1980 American film
Overview: The Last Song is a 1980 American made-for-television thriller drama film about a woman who as a result of a cover up involving toxic waste is being stalked by killers. It was directed by Alan J. Levi ...Release date: 23 October 1980Genre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: Alan J. LeviProducer: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz 0
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Karz
1980 Indian film
Overview: Karz (transl. Debt) is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim in the lead with Simi Garewal in the critically acclaimed ...Release date: 11 June 1980Genre: Thriller, Musical, ActionDirector: Subhash GhaiProducer: Sachin Bhowmick, Rahi Masoom RezaRavi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from ... 0
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Ekipazh
1979 film by Alexander Mitta
Overview: Air Crew (Russian: Экипаж, Ekipazh, 'crew') is a 1980 disaster film directed by Alexander Mitta. Inspired by the Airport movie series, it was the first disaster film shot in the Soviet Union.Release date: 1 October 1980Genre: Drama, Action, ThrillerDirector: Aleksandr MittaCast: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoli Vasilyev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra Yakovleva, Yuri Gorobets, Yekaterina VasilyevaStory of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. 0
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Agency
1980 film
Overview: The Agency or Agency (known as Mind Games on video) is a 1981 Canadian thriller drama film directed by George Kaczender. The film was written by Noel Hynd.Release date: 13 March 1980Genre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: George KaczenderCast: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Alexandra Stewart, Saul Rubinek, George TouliatosProducer: Robert Baylis, Robert LantosWriter: Paul Gottlieb, Noel HyndA mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all ... 0
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The Orchard End Murder
1981 British short thriller film directed by Christian Marnham
Overview: The Orchard End Murder (also known as The Bunnyhole Murder) is a 1981 British short thriller film directed and written by Christian Marnham, and starring Tracy Hyde, Bill Wallis, Clive Mantle, and Raymond ...Release date: 17 February 1980Director: Christian MarnhamProducer: Julian HarveyWriter: Christian MarnhamCharthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing... 0
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Cardiac Arrest
1980 film
Overview: Cardiac Arrest is a 1980 American slasher thriller film written and directed by Murray Mintz, and starring Garry Goodrow, Max Gail and Fred Ward.Release date: 1 January 1980Genre: Crime, Horror, ThrillerDirector: Murray MintzProducer: Murray Mintz, Richard HelzbergThe "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed... 0
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Windows
1980 film by Gordon Willis
Overview: Windows is a 1980 American psychological thriller film directed by Gordon Willis and starring Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, and Elizabeth Ashley. It was the only film directed by Willis, who is better known ...Release date: 18 January 1980Genre: Thriller, DramaDirector: Gordon WillisProducer: Barry Siegel, Mike LobellShire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Ashley, who not only is in lust... 0
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The Outsider
1979 film
Overview: The Outsider is a 1979 film thriller set largely in Belfast during The Troubles; it was the first film directed by Italian-American Tony Luraschi. The film is based on the book The Heritage of Michael ...Release date: 2 June 1980Genre: DramaDirector: Tony LuraschiProducer: Philippe ModaveWriter: Colin Leinster, Tony LuraschiA young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda. 0
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