Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 727 Films to Buy & Rent
Hidden Agenda (1990)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…
- Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
Horseplayer (1990)
- Dir. Kurt Voss
Feat. Brad Dourif, Sammi Davis, Max Perlich
- Interesting item stars the incomparably strange Brad Dourif as a loner being manipulated by bored neighbours. Unfortunately for them, Brad turns out…
Russia House, The (1990)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this cat–and–mouse drama involving Western intelligence's use of a publisher to liaise with an…
Two Jakes, The (1990)
- Dir. Jack Nicholson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel
- Long–awaited sequel to CHINATOWN, with Jack Nicholson reprising his role as the laconic P.I. whose petty burrowing upturns homicide and…
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…
Kitchen 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.
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Music 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…
Nocturne Indien (1989)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clémentine Célarié, Otto Tausig
- Moody drama from dir. Corneau (TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE) sees a young Frenchman travel to India to search for a missing friend, and get lost in…
Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
- BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…