Thriller Movies of 1987
Fatal Attraction
"Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Black Widow
Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
No Way Out
No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
The Big Easy
A film that captures the steamy, colorful essence of New Orleans, this crime thriller tells the romantic story of a classy detective whose investigation of a gangland ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Pack of Lies
Adapted from the one-act play by Hugh Whitemore, Pack of Lies originally aired as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on April 26, 1987. Emmy-nominated Ellen Burstyn plays a Canadian housewife living in England, who ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Cop
Based on James Ellroy's novel Blood on the Moon, Cop ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Stakeout
Though John Badham's Stakeout doesn't flinch in the violence department, the film concentrates primarily on ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Best Seller
Brian Dennehy plays a Wambaugh-type cop who has flourished as a novelist. At the moment, however, ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Someone to Watch over Me
Someone to Watch Over Me, a mystery thriller directed by Ridley Scott is the story of a police officer who falls in love with the woman he is hired to protect ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Backfire
Wealthy-but-troubled Vietnam vet Jeff Fahey, his trailer-trash wife Karen Allen, and drifter Keith Carradine ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
The Bedroom Window
In director/writer Curtis Hanson's 1987 chiller The Bedroom Window, architect Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) experiences a most disorienting turn of events when his French lover, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) - the wife of his boss - ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Dead of Winter
Despite its relative failure at the box office, this is a ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Masques
Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci) poses as a reporter to interview a popular television personality (Philippe Noiret) he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his sister. The ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
The Wind
One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Assassination
In Assassination, a routine political thriller directed by Peter Hunt, Jay Hillion (Charles Bronson) is a secret service agent assigned to protect First Lady ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
House of Games
In his directorial debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet creates a stylish cinematic puzzle of ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Cold Steel
A cop is determined to avenge his father's death in this action-drama. Brad Davis stars ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Sister, Sister
In this thriller, sisters Charlotte (Judith Ivey) and Lucy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) Bonnard reside in the ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Kiss Daddy Goodnight
This low-budget, avant garde feature marks the ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Zombie Death House
In this graphically violent exploitation film, an insane colonel tests out his newly invented virus, HV8-B, designed ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Nowhere to Hide
In this exciting action thriller, an artistic widow fights to stay alive after ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
The Cry of the Owl
Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Le Cri du Hibou concerns Robert (Christophe Malavoy), a ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Hiding Out
Hiding Out, a surprisingly entertaining and engaging action comedy, directed by Bob Giraldi, takes the implausible idea that an adult man could enroll in high school and pass as a student and ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Into the Fire
A young drifter is caught in the clutches of a pair ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Stryker (Brian Schulz) is a wounded Vietnam vet who sets out to avenge the kidnapping of his ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Lady In Black
Kin (Tony Leung Ka-Fei) is up to his neck in gambling debts. When he asks his wife May (Brigitte ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Opera
The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Code of Honor
The ganglord Ho has many loyal followers, thanks to his skill in showering his troops with praise and tangible thanks, giving them much honor in the process. However, in this violent movie, three of his senior ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
The Darkside
A naive taxi driver helps a porno star escape from several pursuing crooks, and finds out that she has evidence on tape linking her employers to a series of snuff films. They must work together to bring the producers to justice before ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Frenchman's Farm
Set in contemporary Australia, this hallucinatory drama is predicated on time displacement. University student Jackie Grenville (Tracey Tainsh), motoring through the rural region, suddenly finds ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Graveyard Shift
This low-budget but slickly produced Canadian horror project is an engrossing, heady blend of steamy romance ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Herencia de Valientes
When the daughter of a prominent politician becomes ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Murder Rap
A musician is seduced by an attractive woman, and ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Stage Fright
Horror film actor Michele Soavi's directorial debut was this stylish giallo thriller about an escaped lunatic terrorizing the cast of a stage musical who get locked in a theater after dark. David Brandon, ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Tragico Terremoto En Mexico
This routine disaster melodrama is based on the actual earthquake that occurred in Mexico City on September 19th, ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Aenigma
Horror legend Lucio Fulci directed this substandard supernatural thriller. Lara Naszinski develops a psychic link with a comatose ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Ratas de la Ciudad
Pedro has moved to Mexico City with his son, and things seem to be going well until the boy is run over accidentally by a secret policeman. When Pedro discovers that the policeman's connections will ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
Operation Take No Prisoners
In this action thriller, Kane Turk is a criminal without a conscience who breaks into the home of Professor John Hillman, taking the professor, his ... [ Thriller movie - 1987 ]
