Eighties Noir
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1. American Gigolo (1980)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder which he did not commit.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina van Pallandt
Votes: 29,426 | Gross: $23.00M
2. Union City (1980)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.
Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh
Votes: 462
3. Gloria (1980)
PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich
Votes: 11,425
4. Body Heat (1981)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Votes: 40,120 | Gross: $24.06M
5. Atlantic City (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 18,288
6. Thief (1981)
R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi
Votes: 38,954 | Gross: $11.49M
7. Cutter's Way (1981)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry
Votes: 7,632 | Gross: $1.73M
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner
Votes: 25,772 | Gross: $12.38M
9. Road Games (1981)
PG | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller
A laid-back American truck driver in south Australia suspects that the driver of a green van is killing young women along his route, and plays a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page
Votes: 9,088
10. Blow Out (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Votes: 63,224 | Gross: $13.75M
11. Cat People (1982)
R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A woman who was orphaned from a young age finally reunites with her older brother. Matters start to go awry when she slowly discovers the true nature of her family.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole
Votes: 23,897 | Gross: $7.00M
12. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 822,837 | Gross: $32.87M
13. Butterfly (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 1,556
14. The Border (1982)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates
Votes: 7,079 | Gross: $6.12M
15. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from classic noir films appear as scenes from various movies interjected into the story.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner
Votes: 23,735 | Gross: $18.20M
16. I, the Jury (1982)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A PI investigates the murder of his one-armed friend, a PI working on a case. Clues lead to a sex clinic. Bodies pile up.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King
Votes: 1,819 | Gross: $1.52M
17. Still of the Night (1982)
PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi
Votes: 5,791 | Gross: $5.98M
18. Breathless (1983)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan
Votes: 10,429 | Gross: $19.91M
19. Hammett (1982)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 3,687 | Gross: $0.04M
20. Angel (1982)
R | 92 min | Drama, Music
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a non-verbal deaf girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge them.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin, Peter Caffrey
Votes: 975
21. The Hit (1984)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke, Terence Stamp
Votes: 9,535 | Gross: $0.88M
22. Repo Man (1984)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Votes: 41,043 | Gross: $3.57M
23. Blood Simple (1984)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 105,203 | Gross: $2.15M
24. Against All Odds (1984)
R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras
Votes: 13,668 | Gross: $25.10M
25. The Element of Crime (1984)
Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai, Jerold Wells
Votes: 11,285
26. Body Double (1984)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton
Votes: 38,155 | Gross: $8.80M
27. Trouble in Mind (1985)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 2,426 | Gross: $0.02M
28. Defense of the Realm (1985)
PG | 96 min | Thriller
After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
Director: David Drury | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen
Votes: 2,521 | Gross: $0.75M
29. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,634 | Gross: $8.55M
30. The Hitcher (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 52,519 | Gross: $5.84M
31. 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former police detective, still recovering from his alcohol addiction, is seemingly drawn into L.A's criminal underworld after stumbling upon a local drug ring.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks
Votes: 5,944 | Gross: $1.31M
32. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,696 | Gross: $5.79M
33. 52 Pick-Up (1986)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover
Votes: 7,012 | Gross: $5.19M
34. Angel Heart (1987)
X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 95,792 | Gross: $17.19M
35. The Bedroom Window (1987)
R | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young executive starts an affair with his boss's wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar
Votes: 6,807 | Gross: $12.64M
36. Black Widow (1987)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A federal investigator tracks down a gold-digging woman who moves from husband to husband to kill them and collect the inheritance.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 11,010 | Gross: $25.21M
37. House of Games (1987)
R | 102 min | Crime, Thriller
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala
Votes: 24,036 | Gross: $2.59M
38. The Killing Time (1987)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A murderer who assumes the identity of a new deputy is unbeknownst to the sheriff planning to pin a separate murder on him.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker
Votes: 1,272 | Gross: $0.50M
39. No Way Out (1987)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton
Votes: 45,926 | Gross: $35.51M
40. Dead of Winter (1987)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ
Votes: 4,676 | Gross: $2.41M
41. Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
Director: Norman Mailer | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Stipe, Wings Hauser
Votes: 1,846 | Gross: $0.86M
42. Siesta (1987)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An American skydiver wakes up in the middle of nowhere in Spain and must recount the last five agonizing days to figure out how she got there.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 2,447 | Gross: $0.70M
43. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Votes: 216,755 | Gross: $156.45M
44. D.O.A. (1988)
R | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern
Votes: 10,965 | Gross: $12.71M
45. Street of No Return (1989)
93 min | Action, Drama, Crime
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 597
46. Kill Me Again (1989)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Pat Mulligan, Nick Dimitri
Votes: 5,681 | Gross: $0.28M
47. Cat Chaser (1989)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 1,514
48. Cohen and Tate (1988)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a little boy witnesses a mob hit, he is kidnapped by two professional assassins who are not what they seem.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 2,660
49. L.A. Takedown (1989 TV Movie)
97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Ely Pouget
Votes: 2,567
50. Dead Calm (1989)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar
Votes: 43,681 | Gross: $7.83M
51. The Kill-Off (1989)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Business at The Pavilion bar is down so Pete and Rags decide that the best way to get The Pavilion off the skids is to turn it into a strip joint.
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Loretta Gross, Andrew Lee Barrett, Jackson Sims, Steve Monroe
Votes: 221 | Gross: $8.40M
52. Cop (1988)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid
Votes: 6,171 | Gross: $1.88M
53. Double Negative (1980)
96 min | Thriller
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins, Howard Duff
Votes: 182
54. Blue City (1986)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drifter returns to his Florida hometown only to discover that his father, the local mayor, was mysteriously murdered during his absence. Vowing to find the killer and avenge his father's death, he starts his own investigation.
Director: Michelle Manning | Stars: Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield
Votes: 1,338 | Gross: $6.95M
55. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 923,856 | Gross: $38.40M
56. Gotham (1988 TV Movie)
R | 98 min | Thriller
A private detective is hired to stop his client's ex-wife from harassing him, but she's supposed to have died 10 years ago.
Director: Lloyd Fonvielle | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Colin Bruce, Denise Stephenson
Votes: 1,034
57. Subway Riders (1981)
120 min | Thriller
A Psychotic saxophone player (played both by Amos Poe and John Lurie) lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Director: Amos Poe | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Charlene Kaleina, Cookie Mueller, John Lurie
Votes: 162
58. Arch of Triumph (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence, Frank Finlay
Votes: 631
59. At Close Range (1986)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
Votes: 17,733 | Gross: $2.35M
60. Dark Mirror (1984 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church (Vincent Gardenia) suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen (Jane Seymour) is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Vincent Gardenia, Jane Seymour, Stephen Collins, Hank Brandt
Votes: 164
61. A Flash of Green (1984)
TV-MA | 121 min | Drama
A local reporter gets involved with a corrupt county commissioner.
Director: Victor Nunez | Stars: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, Richard Jordan, George Coe
Votes: 271
62. Peter Gunn (1989 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Peter Gunn is asked by a mob boss to find the murderer of a friend's brother. Although he is working outside from the mob, Gunn is none the less pursued by mobsters, the cops and interested women.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Strauss, Peter Jurasik, Jennifer Edwards, Barbara Williams
Votes: 264
63. Slow Burn (1986 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may or may not be Gerald's son. He also ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo, Dennis Lipscomb, Raymond J. Barry
Votes: 931
64. Third Degree Burn (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling around behind his back. During the course of ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder
Votes: 447
65. This Girl for Hire (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Mystery
A private investigator (Bess Armstrong) is hired to protect a mystery writer, but when the writer is murdered, her suspects include a former agent, lover, and chauffeur.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Bess Armstrong, Celeste Holm, Cliff De Young, Hermione Baddeley
Votes: 168
66. The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In contemporary Hollywood, private investigator Sam Marlow gets plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart and solves various cases just like Bogart's silver-screen detective characters from the 1940s.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey
Votes: 666
67. Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey
Votes: 40,656 | Gross: $57.92M
68. Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987)
R | 90 min | Thriller
A popular woman who enjoys her nights on the town gets more than she bargained for when a stalker murders a loved one and begins hunting her down.
Director: Peter Ily Huemer | Stars: Uma Thurman, Paul Dillon, Paul Richards, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 739
69.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The McGuffin
(1986)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He sees two men attacking them and Gavin falling to his death. The men were looking for something and believe he has it.
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Charles Dance, Ann Todd, Mark Rylance, Bill Shine
Votes: 68
70. P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
R | 91 min | Crime, Thriller
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Director: Nigel Dick | Stars: Clayton Rohner, Ray Sharkey, Paul Le Mat, Talia Balsam
Votes: 186
71. Johnny Handsome (1989)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 10,998 | Gross: $7.24M
72. Mortal Passions (1989)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A scheming woman seeks to kill her husband for money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
Director: Andrew Lane | Stars: Zach Galligan, Krista Errickson, Michael Bowen, Luca Bercovici
Votes: 502 | Gross: $1.90M
73.
Crime Story (1986–1988)
Episode:
Pilot
(1986)
Unrated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chicago Major Crime Unit, led by no-nonsense lt. Torrello, stops a team of robbers, but the leader escapes. Torrello suspects Ray Luca, a mobster on the rise. He also deals with idealistic public defender Abrams, who opposes his methods.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Dennis Farina, Tony Denison, Bill Smitrovich, Steve Ryan
Votes: 833
74.
Private Eye (1987–1988)
Episode:
Pilot
(1987)
98 min | Crime, Drama
A private eye is killed. His brother an ex-cop investigates his death. And he discovers a web of corruption within the police department.
Director: Mark Tinker | Stars: Michael Woods, William Sadler, Lisa Jane Persky, Josh Brolin
Votes: 79
75. Dial 'M' for Murder (1981 TV Movie)
98 min | Thriller
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, Michael Parks
Votes: 269
76. Sorry, Wrong Number (1989 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
When a bedridden wife overhears a murder plot on her phone, she tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent the murder. Based on a famous play.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Loni Anderson, Carl Weintraub, Patrick Macnee, Diane D'Aquila
Votes: 180
77. The Heist (1989 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Framed con-man seeks revenge by planning a racetrack heist.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Noble Willingham
Votes: 866
78. The Lady Forgets (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman bumps her head after a mugging and loses her memory for the last 2 years. Confused and dazed, she frantically tries to piece together the last 2 years and find her identity while being on the run from people from her previous life.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Donna Mills, Greg Evigan, Andrew Robinson, Mark Rolston
Votes: 138
79. Body and Soul (I) (1981)
R | 109 min | Drama, Sport
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Director: George Bowers | Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy, Perry Lang, Nikki Swasey Seaton
Votes: 399
80. Stormy Monday (1988)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean
Votes: 4,436 | Gross: $1.79M
81. Flashpoint (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.
Director: William Tannen | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway
Votes: 3,154 | Gross: $3.85M
82. Vortex (1982)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense... See full summary »
Directors: Beth B, Scott B | Stars: James Russo, Lydia Lunch, William Rice, Ann Magnuson
Votes: 116
83. The Legend of Wolf Lodge (1987)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A guy falls for young, pretty, busty waitress, while having an affair with his landlady, who tries to convince him to kill her husband for money.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Susan Anspach, Art Hindle, Olivia d'Abo, Lee Montgomery
Votes: 231
84. Shadows in the Storm (1988)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.
Director: Terrell Tannen | Stars: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell
Votes: 253
85. The Letter (1982 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Lee Remick, Ronald Pickup, Jack Thompson, Ian McShane
Votes: 83
86. The Edge (1989)
25 min | Drama, Thriller
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who ... See full summary »
Stars: Barry Sattels, Rutger Hauer, Christian Slater, Brad Davis
Votes: 65
87. Mike's Murder (1984)
R | 109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In L.A., a young woman tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson
Votes: 1,041 | Gross: $1.06M
88. Strangers Kiss (1983)
R | 94 min | Drama
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Victoria Tennant, Blaine Novak, Dan Shor
Votes: 209
89. Slayground (1983)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Thieves run over a child while escaping after a robbery. A deadly hitman who likes to taunt his targets is hired to track them down. Stone moves to England, but the assassin follows. Loosely based on Donald Westlake's cult crime novel.
Director: Terry Bedford | Stars: Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Philip Sayer
Votes: 478 | Gross: $0.15M
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