Thriller Movies of 1981
Ghost Story
This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Eyewitness
Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
The Fan
Lauren Bacall more or less plays herself in The Fan. Cast as famous Broadway musical comedy star Sally Ross (with an astonishing lack of temperament!), Bacall finds herself the unwilling love object of psychotic fan ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Sharky's Machine
A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
The Salamander
Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Blow Out
Brian De Palma's homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia soundman inadvertently records a murder. Former police technician Jack Terri (John ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
The Watcher in the Woods
This Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by Florence Engel Randall. An American family, headed by composer Paul Curtis (David McCallum) and his wife Helen (Carroll Baker), is ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Looker
This fun, silly thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton manages to combine the dramatic murders of beautiful models, a secret ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Body Heat
Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Jig Saw
A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
The Final Conflict
The second sequel to the 1976 horror hit The Omen finds Damien Thorn assuming the full mantle of the Antichrist and preparing for a final, all-out battle with ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Le Professionnel
Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a French spy given the ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Southern Comfort
A handful of part time soldiers unwittingly turn a field exercise into a miniature war in this offbeat action drama from writer and director Walter Hill. A group of National Guard reservists are sent to Louisiana on a chilly weekend ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Strange Behavior
Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Road Games
Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Dead and Buried
Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the screenwriters behind ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Turkey Shoot
This grim, violent Australian production is an artless mishmash incorporating elements of The Road Warrior, 1984 , and The Most Dangerous Game. The story is set in a dystopian future society where ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Eyes of a Stranger
In this slasher film, Lauren Tewes stars as a TV anchorwoman whose deaf, dumb and blind teen sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the next ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
The Black Cat
Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci applies his characteristic touch to the Edgar Allan Poe tale (of which very little remains intact) to tell the story of a deranged, ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Diva
The diva of the title is a famous black opera singer (Wilhelmina Wiggins-Fernandez) who steadfastly refuses to be recorded. The singer is ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Final Exam
Since this no-brainer is basically a hybrid of frat-boy comedy and slasher-thriller exploitation which features no slashing, no humor, and fails to exploit anything, it's hard to determine ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
Macumba Sexual
Jesus Franco's surrealistic voodoo film stars Ajita Wilson as Princess Obongo, who lives in a strange castle on a sunny desert island. Through sexual rituals and seduction ... [ Thriller movie - 1981 ]
