Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3104 Films to Rent
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane…
- Amiable escapade with trouble aplenty for Goldberg after she starts receiving S.O.S messages from a British spy trapped in Soviet Russia. When she…
Legal Eagles (1986)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah…
- Light rom–com thriller set in New York's art world with Winger and Redford as feuding attorneys.
Manhunter (1986)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Brian Cox, William Petersen
- Brooding 'psycho'–drama based on Thomas Harris' novel 'Red Dragon', featuring an appearance of the pre–iconic Hannibal Lechter character…
Matlock (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Andy Griffith, Linda Purl
- Updating the "Perry Mason" blueprint with rumpled Southern charm, the ultra laid–back Andy Griffith plays Ben Matlock, an Atlanta defense…
Mona Lisa (1986)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine
- Gritty British crime thriller, with Bob Hoskins in great form as a crim fresh out of prison.
Morning After, The (1986)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia
- Jane Fonda is implicated for murder after waking up next to a dead man. With Jeff Bridges.
Name of the Rose, The (1986)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater…
- A haunting medieval chiller with Sean Connery as a monk who discovers a series of bizarre deaths are not the work of evil spirits, as commonly…
No Mercy (1986)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbe…
- Swampy helping of neo–noir with Gere as a Chicago cop commissioned to to take out a New Orleans crime boss.
River's Edge (1986)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye…
- Terrifying drama about a group of school friends who discover that one of them has murdered a classmate. Major cult film from the '80s with its lurid…
Whistle Blower, The (1986)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers…
- Michael Caine gives one of his best performances in a reasonably realistic spy drama, as the father of a GCHQ officer bumped off during a Cold War…