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| 1 |  | Aliens (1986) |  3.4949 153 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| Ripley is discovered, 57 years after the Nostromo mission, drifting through space. Back on Earth, ...more about Aliens starring Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn |
| 2 |  | Fly, The (1986) |  3.2056 80 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$8.26
| Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica ...more about Fly starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis |
| 3 |  | Manhunter (1986) | 3.1572 124 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime |
$6.48
| Will Graham is a gifted FBI agent that has the ability to think like his suspects. He goes into ...more about Manhunter starring William L. Petersen and Kim Greist |
| 4 |  | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) | 3.1507 80 reviews | NC-17 | Thriller, Horror, Crime |
$17.37
| Henry is a serial killer and one night after a few beers, he introduces his roommate to his extra ...more about Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer starring Mary Demas and Michael Rooker |
| 5 |  | Blue Velvet (1986) | 2.9629 129 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$5.69
| A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not ...more about Blue Velvet starring Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan |
| 6 |  | Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) | 2.9513 59 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Horror |
$2.10
| Tommy returns to the grave to make sure Jason is dead and accidently brings him back to life. Now ...more about Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives starring Bob Larkin and Jennifer Cooke |
| 7 |  | Hitcher, The (1986) | 2.9107 42 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$1.96
| A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and ...more about Hitcher starring C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer |
| 8 |  | Mona Lisa (1986) | 2.9011 33 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$5.07
| George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced ...more about Mona Lisa starring Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson |
| 9 |  | F/X (1986) |  2.6308 16 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Crime |
$9.99
| A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a ...more about F/X starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy |
| 10 |  | Witchboard (1986) | 2.6187 26 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$8.95
| At a party, a guest brings out a Ouija board, and they attempt to contact a spirit he knows. The ...more about Witchboard starring Rose Marie |
| 11 |  | Maximum Overdrive (1986) | 2.6036 41 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$4.65
| For 3 days in 1986, the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious comet. During that time, ...more about Maximum Overdrive starring Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle |
| 12 |  | Mosquito Coast, The (1986) | 2.5707 21 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
$6.99
| An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build ...more about Mosquito Coast starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren |
| 13 |  | Psycho III (1986) | 2.4739 27 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$3.92
| Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls ...more about Psycho III starring Anthony Perkins and Diana Scarwid |
| 14 | | Wraith, The (1986) | 2.4428 22 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Romance | N/A | A small desert town has been harassed for months by a gang of drag racers, but so far no one has ...more about Wraith starring Charlie Sheen and Nick Cassavetes |
| 15 |  | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) | 2.3184 9 reviews | G | Thriller, Fantasy, Family, Animation |
$7.99
| In this second installment to the original Care Bear Movie trilogy of the 1980s, the Care Bear ...more about Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation starring Hadley Kay and Pam Hyatt |
| 16 |  | Whistle Blower, The (1986) |  2.2190 14 reviews | NA | Thriller |
$13.49
| ...more about Whistle Blower starring Michael Caine and James Fox |
| 17 |  | Black Moon Rising (1986) | 2.2048 14 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$4.60
| A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. ...more about Black Moon Rising starring Tommy Lee Jones and Al White |
| 18 |  | Manhattan Project, The (1986) | 2.1159 12 reviews | NA | Thriller, Comedy |
$13.49
| Boy meets scientist. Boy breaks into lab. Boy steals plutonium. Boy builds thermonuclear device. ...more about Manhattan Project starring John Lithgow and Richard Council |
| 19 | | Morning After, The (1986) | 2.0576 12 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery |
$12.71
| Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed with a dead man. ...more about Morning After starring Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges |
| 20 |  | Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) | 2.0400 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror |
$9.99
| The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of ...more about Poltergeist II: The Other Side starring JoBeth Williams and Heather O'Rourke |
| 21 |  | Link (1986) | 1.9191 10 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$15.86
| Student Jane jobs as an assistant for the animal researcher Phillip in a lonesome old house. They ...more about Link starring Elisabeth Shue and Terence Stamp |
| 22 |  | Half Moon Street (1986) | 1.9009 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$6.41
| Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated ...more about Half Moon Street starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine |
| 23 |  | Deadtime Stories (1986) | 1.8126 12 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories--about a killer witch, Little Red Riding ...more about Deadtime Stories starring Scott Valentine and Nicole Picard |
| 24 |  | Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1986) | 1.7806 8 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$6.97
| After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released ...more about Mountaintop Motel Massacre starring Bill Thurman and Anna Chappell |
| 25 |  | Gothic (1986) | 1.7532 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$5.89
| Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed ...more about Gothic starring Gabriel Byrne and Natasha Richardson |
| 26 | | 52 Pick-Up (1986) |  1.7365 13 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Mystery |
$9.99
| Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city ...more about 52 Pick-Up starring Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret |
| 27 |  | Dead-End Drive In (1986) | 1.7213 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and ...more about Dead-End Drive In starring Natalie McCurry and Peter Whitford |
| 28 |  | Running Scared (1986) | 1.5889 15 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Crime, Comedy |
$9.72
| Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are ...more about Running Scared starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal |
| 29 |  | No Mercy (1986) | 1.5633 8 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Crime |
$2.12
| Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans ...more about No Mercy starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger |
| 30 |  | Reform School Girls (1986) | 1.5158 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$6.97
| Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. ...more about Reform School Girls starring Linda Carol and Wendy O. Williams |
| 31 | | Lucker (1986) | 1.4610 2 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | John Lucker is a serial rapist/murderer with a necrophilia fetish. Eight years ago, he went on a ...more about Lucker starring Nick Van Suyt and Helga Vandevelde |
| 32 | | Abducted (1986) | 1.4291 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | City girl Renee is enjoying a jog in the peace and quiet of the Canadian Rockies when she suddenly ...more about Abducted starring Roberta Weiss and Lawrence King-Phillips |
| 33 |  | InHumanoids: The Movie (1986) | 1.3834 2 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Animation | N/A | Action-packed cartoon about the age-old fight between good and evil. Mysterious events start to ...more about InHumanoids: The Movie |
| 34 | | Blindside (1986) | 1.3788 1 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller | N/A | Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. ...more about Blindside starring Clark Johnson and Lori Hallier |
| 35 | | Judgment in Stone, A (1986) | 1.3423 1 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to ...more about Judgment in Stone starring Rita Tushingham and Ross Petty |
| 36 |  | Terror at Tenkiller (1986) | 1.2966 3 reviews | NA | Thriller |
$4.99
| ...more about Terror at Tenkiller |
| 37 | | In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986) |  1.1414 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror | N/A | There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start ...more about In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro starring John Rhys-Davies and Timothy Bottoms |
| 38 | | Cassandra (1986) | 1.1140 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | ...more about Cassandra starring Tegan Charles and Tessa Humphries |
| 39 |  | Quicksilver (1986) | 1.0486 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance |
$3.95
| Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' (qv))used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous ...more about Quicksilver starring Kevin Bacon and Jami Gertz |
| 40 | | Where Are the Children? (1986) | 1.0318 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | On her birthday, San Francisco resident Nancy Harmon's two kids Peter and Lisa disappear, later to ...more about Where Are the Children? starring Jill Clayburgh and Max Gail |
| 41 |  | Fantasist, The (1986) | 1.0227 2 reviews | NA | Thriller | N/A | When an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a ...more about Fantasist starring Moira Harris and Christopher Cazenove |
| 42 | | Heat (1986) | 0.7853 3 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime | N/A | Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting ...more about Heat starring Burt Reynolds and Karen Young |
| 43 | | Dangerously Close (1986) |  0.7457 7 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller | N/A | Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates ...more about Dangerously Close starring John Stockwell and J. Eddie Peck |
| 44 |  | Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986) | 0.5341 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$9.41
| ...more about Las Vegas Serial Killer |
| 45 | | Out of Bounds (1986) | 0.4656 3 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime | N/A | Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will ...more about Out of Bounds starring Anthony Michael Hall and Jenny Wright |
| 46 | | Twisted (1986) | 0.4656 1 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. ...more about Twisted starring Lois Smith and Christian Slater |
| 47 | | Kidnapped (1986/I) |  No Score 0 reviews | NA | Thriller | N/A | Sisters Bonnie and Debbie visit San Diego on Debbie's sixteenth birthday. After telling a sleazy ...more about Kidnapped starring David Naughton and Barbara Crampton |
| 48 |  | Born American (1986) | No Score 4 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Thriller | N/A | Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When ...more about Born American |
| 49 | | Girl, The (1986) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | ...more about Girl starring Bernice Stegers and Clare Powney |
| 50 | | High School Spirits (1986) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Comedy | N/A | ...more about High School Spirits starring Neil LaBute and Wayne Gilbert |
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