Best Thriller / Mystery Movies of the 1980s

Added on by C. Maoxian.

These are the best thriller / mystery movies of the 1980s according to John Farr. I’ve arranged them chronologically below:

English-language movies:

  1. Dressed to Kill (1980)

  2. The Shining (1980)

  3. Body Heat (1981)

  4. Prince of the City (1981)

  5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  6. Thief (1981)

  7. Missing (1982)

  8. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

  9. The Long Good Friday (1982)

  10. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

  11. Scarface (1983)

  12. Silkwood (1983)

  13. The King of Comedy (1983)

  14. A Soldier’s Story (1984)

  15. The Terminator (1984)

  16. Blood Simple (1985)

  17. Dance with a Stranger (1985)

  18. Runaway Train (1985)

  19. Witness (1985)

  20. Blue Velvet (1986)

  21. Mona Lisa (1986)

  22. Fatal Attraction (1987)

  23. House of Games (1987)

  24. The Untouchables (1987)

  25. Dead Ringers (1988)

  26. Die Hard (1988)

  27. Mississippi Burning (1988)

  28. The Accused (1988)

  29. Do the Right Thing (1989)

  30. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

  31. Sea of Love (1989)

Foreign-language movies:

  1. The Last Metro (1980) (French)

  2. L'Argent (1983) (French)

  3. Cop Au Vin (1984) (French)

  4. The Official Story (1985) (Spanish)

  5. Scene of the Crime (1986) (French)

  6. A Short Film About Killing (1987) (Polish)

  7. Story of Women (1988) (French)

  8. The Vanishing (1988) (Dutch)

  9. The Killer (1989) (Cantonese)

  10. The Seventh Continent (1989) (German)