Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (1989-2002)
- Feat. David Suchet
- Solid TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's series of detective novels featuring the fussily eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he goes about…
Apartment Zero (1989)
- Dir. Martin Donovan
Feat. Colin Firth, Hart Bochner
- Weird tale in which a loner (Colin Firth) rents half of his apartment to a man of dubious motives and background (Hart Bochner). Pays homage to many…
Black Rain (1989)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura…
- Unrelenting violence made impressive by Scott's visual flair, sees Michael Douglas as a NY cop in Japan assigned to deliver a dangerous mobster.
Brotherhood Of The Rose (Mini-Series) (1989)
- Feat. Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss…
- Mini–series from author David Morrell about two orphans raised to be super–soldier CIA operatives who become embroiled in an…
Campion (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt
- Eccentric detective series sees Peter Davison play the titular Albert Campion, who, along with his melancholy sidekick Lugg, solve mind–bending…
Cat Chaser (1989)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning…
- The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Club Extinction (Dr. M) (1989)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas…
- Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Criminal Law (1989)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper…
- Hot shot lawyer Gary Oldman successfully defends psycho–killer Kevin Bacon, only to find he had made a costly misjudgement.
Dark Woods, The (1989)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Beatrice Dalle
- Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) marries a stranger on a whim, and lives to regret it when her affections for his brother leads to a brutal crime of…
Dead Calm (1989)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane
- A married couple are terrorised by a charmer with a bad case of sea–stroke in this riveting sea–bound thriller. A unique genre entry with…