Movie List for "thriller"

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Thriller
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Ira Levin (novel), Heywood Gould (screenplay)
Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer

Die Sister, Die! (1978)

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Randall Hood
Writer: William Hersey (story), Tony Sawyer
Actors: Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director: René Cardona Jr.
Writer: Ramón Bravo (novel), René Cardona Jr. (screenplay), Christina Schuch (story adaption)
Actors: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis

Tentacles (1977)

A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community. Year 1977.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis
Writer: Jerome Max, Tito Carpi, Steven W. Carabatsos
Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda

The Last Wave (1977)

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Peter Weir (screenplay), Tony Morphett (screenplay), Petru Popescu (screenplay)
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow

The Late Show (1977)

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner. Year 1977.

Generes: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Robert Benton
Writer: Robert Benton
Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche

Chalta Purza (1977)

Movie Year 1977.

Generes: Action, Thriller
Director: Bhappi Sonie
Writer: Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay), Sachin Bhowmick (story), Kader Khan (dialogue)
Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Parveen Babi, Rakesh Roshan, Ajit

Day of the Animals (1977)

A battle for survival ensues after a group of hikers encounters a chemically imbalanced forest. Year 1977.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: William Girdler
Writer: William W. Norton (screenplay), Eleanor E. Norton (screenplay), Edward L. Montoro (story)
Actors: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel

Death Game (1977)

Two young girls come to the home of a businessman whose family is away on his birthday. They seduce him and afterwards, however, they tie him up, torture him and trash his house. Year 1977.

Generes: Thriller
Director: Peter S. Traynor
Writer: Anthony Overman, Michael Ronald Ross
Actors: Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel, Beth Brickell

The Deep (1977)

In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck. Year 1977.

Generes: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Writer: Peter Benchley (novel), Peter Benchley (screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay)
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw

Claws (1977)

Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. … Year 1977.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Richard Bansbach, Robert E. Pearson
Writer: Chuck D. Keen, Brian Russell
Actors: Jason Evers, Leon Ames, Anthony Caruso, Carla Layton

Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)

After a Senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining Senator and the state Governor must decide on a person who will … Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Thriller
Director: Tom Laughlin
Writer: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Sidney Buchman (based on a screenplay by), Lewis R. Foster (story)
Actors: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, E.G. Marshall, Teresa Kelly

Another Son of Sam (1977)

A psychotic killer escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree. The SWAT team it sent out to track him down. Year 1977.

Generes: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director: Dave Adams
Writer: Dave Adams
Actors: Russ Dubuc, Cynthia Stewart, Robert McCourt, John Harper

End Play (1976)

Movie Year 1976.

Generes: Thriller
Director: Tim Burstall
Writer: Tim Burstall (screenplay), Russell Braddon (based on the novel by)
Actors: George Mallaby, John Waters, Ken Goodlet, Delvene Delaney

Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who … Year 1976.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Michael Pataki
Writer: Frank Ray Perilli
Actors: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Lance Henriksen

The House by the Lake (1976)

A rich playboy has a large house in the countryside. One weekend he invites a fashion model. On his way to the house, he drives past a gang of crazy young men. The men find out where the … Year 1976.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: William Fruet
Writer: William Fruet
Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres