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Subgenre Sampler

 
Diamond Skulls (1989)
Dir. Nick Broomfield
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe
This brittle stab at fiction from renowned documentarian Nick Broomfield about "sex, class and obsession" suffers from unsympathetic…
Fellow TravellerFellow Traveller (1989)
Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.
Johnny HandsomeJohnny Handsome (1989)
Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern
Mickey Rourke plays a deformed petty criminal who takes the rap for a major robbery. In prison he is given a new handsome face and proceeds to avenge…
Kill Me AgainKill Me Again (1989) Recommended
Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Val Kilmer
Joanne Whalley–Kilmer asks naive P.I. Val Kilmer to fake her death to throw short–fused Michael Madsen off her trail. Plot nicely twists…
Kill Off, TheKill Off, The (1989) Aro Favourite
Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Andrew Lee Barrett, Jorja Fox, Ralph Graff
In a small New Jersey town, everyone has a motive to kill off the town gossip. Fascinating, off–beat story based on Jim Thompson's novel. A…
Kinjite - Forbidden SubjectsKinjite - Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Juan Fernandez, Perry Lopez
Warped thriller with Bronson as a vice cop out to bust a teen prostitution ring. Bronson and Thompson's ninth and final collaboration is a sordid…
Kitchen SinkKitchen Sink (1989)
Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Theresa Healy, Peter Tait, Anagretta Christian
Three shorts from director Alison Maclean. Her 1989 award–winning Gothic horror is here paired with two earlier works, TALKBACK (1987), and the…
Master of the Marionettes, A (1989)
Dir. Pedr James
Feat. Kenneth Cranham, Carol Drinkwater
Effective though modest BBC drama–thriller posits a 'Twilight Zone' scenario of a salesman suspected of stabbing a man he has rescued. As…
Music BoxMusic Box (1989)
Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest
Jessica Lange plays the attorney daughter of a Hungarian immigrant (Mueller–Stahl), now accused of WW2 war crimes. Her quest for the truth…
Next of KinNext of Kin (1989)
Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt
Patrick Swayze is at his two–fisted best as a tough Chicago cop who teams with his hillbilly kinfolk when a young brother is brutally murdered…

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