A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage. Year 1980.
| Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Director: Lewis Teague |
| Writer: John Sayles (screenplay), John Sayles (story), Frank Ray Perilli (story) |
| Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger |
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. Year 1980.
| Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Director: Ken Russell |
| Writer: Paddy Chayefsky (written for the screen by), Paddy Chayefsky (novel) |
| Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid |
US Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California. Year 1980.
| Generes: Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Christopher Leitch |
| Writer: Michael Allin |
| Actors: Telly Savalas, Danny De La Paz, Eddie Albert, Michael V. Gazzo |
Movie Year 1980.
| Generes: Action, Thriller |
| Director: I.V. Sasi |
| Writer: T. Damodaran |
| Actors: Jayan, Sukumaran, Seema, Jose |
After being gang raped and institutionalized, a woman suffers nightmares while under the care of her unfaithful husband, and finally snaps when a group of masked youths decide to invade her house. Year 1980.
| Generes: Drama, Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Arthur Jeffreys |
| Writer: Alex Rebar |
| Actors: Sallee Young, Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton |
After his traumatized wife is raped in the countryside by two bums, a husband hunts the men responsible. Year 1980.
| Generes: Thriller |
| Director: Bernard Buys |
| Writer: Bernard Buys (story and screenplay) |
| Actors: John Parsonson, Lieb Bester, Tessa Ziegler, Marcel van Heerden |
Movie Year 1980.
| Generes: Action, Thriller |
| Director: Romano Scavolini |
| Writer: Maxine Julius (adaptation), Romano Scavolini |
| Actors: George Ayer, Mairi Hronopoulou, Joanne Jackal, Mary Mark |
An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody. Year 1979.
| Generes: Thriller |
| Director: Peter Maris |
| Writer: Eddie Krell (story), Jim Loew (story), Peter Maris, Richard Yalem |
| Actors: Turk Cekovsky, Debi Chaney, Terry TenBroek, Barron Winchester |
Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Thriller |
| Director: Mark Robson, Monte Hellman |
| Writer: Abraham Polonsky (screenplay), Colin Forbes (novel) |
| Actors: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell |
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Norman Jewison |
| Writer: Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson |
| Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg |
An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of … Year 1979.
| Generes: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ed Hunt |
| Writer: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson |
| Actors: Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez, Michael J. Reynolds |
A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 – off the record – for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ross Hagen |
| Writer: Hugh Smith (screenplay), Julian Roffman (screenplay), Hugh Smith (story), Ross Hagen (story) |
| Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell |
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Crichton |
| Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay by), Michael Crichton (based on his novel) |
| Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb |
Movie Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Paul Kiener |
| Writer: Algernon Blackwood (short story), Paul Kiener (screenplay) |
| Actors: Van Washburn Jr., Victor Lawrence, Ron Berger, Carole Cocherelle |
A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people. Year 1978.
| Generes: Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Irwin Allen |
| Writer: Arthur Herzog III (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay) |
| Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain |
A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller |
| Director: David Greene |
| Writer: David Lavallee (novel), James Whittaker (screenplay), Howard Sackler (screenplay), Frank P. Rosenberg (adaptation) |
| Actors: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty |