Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Road Games (1981)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis - Inventive and at times intense, this road thriller has truckdriver Keach traversing the outback, while a serial killer is on the loose. Effectively…
Seven Dials Mystery, The (1981)- Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Cheryl Campbell, James Warwick, John Gielgud… - Detective Bundle enters into the world of espionage when she sets off to solve the grizzly murders of two Foreign Officers.
Sharky's Machine (1981)- Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith… - Burt Reynolds assumed directing duties for this sleazy cop–thriller about political corruption. Mixes exciting, gory action–scenes with…
Taps (1981)- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott… - A surprise box–office smash about a group of cadets who take over their military college, which is on the brink of being closed down. Inspired…
Tattoo (1981)- Dir. Bob Brooks
Feat. Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey - An unbalanced tattoo–artist becomes obsessed with a supermodel, believing the temporary tattoos he paints on her should become permanent! Murky…
Thief (1981)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. James Caan, Tuesday Weld - Exhilarating, distinctive portrait of a criminal professional, here a safecracker played with wired conviction by James Caan. A scorching…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)- Dir. John Laing
Feat. David Hemmings, John Hargreaves - Probing account of events surrounding the much–publicised Crew murders that put an innocent farmer, Arthur Allan Thomas, behind bars for ten…
Brubaker (1980)- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander… - Straight–edged prison drama based around the true story of a warden who disguised himself as a convict in order to expose the corruptions of…
Contraband (The Smuggler) (1980)- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Fabio Testi - A slight change of pace for dir. Fulci, here concocting a vicious criminal thriller about rival smugglers on the Naples waterfront, but which manages…
Cruising (1980)- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen - Controversial, grimy thriller places cop Al Pacino undercover in New York's gay community in an effort to ensnare a serial killer, but the job begins…
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