Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Blackout (1985)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine
- Above–average stalker whodunit.
Death in a French Garden (1985)
- Dir. Michel Deville
Feat. Anemone , Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia…
- A guitar tutor arrives at the house of a beautiful nymphette and her suspicious mother, where games of sex, power and manipulation unfold ultimately…
Defence of the Realm (1985)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott…
- Atmospheric nuclear conspiracy thriller of the old–school.
Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton
- A composed intellectual convinces his wayward friend to sell federal secrets to the Russians. Stunning political drama featuring a stand–out…
Fletch (1985)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson…
- Arguably considered his best feature comedy, Chevy Chase plays the titular newspaper reporter with a penchant for changing his identity who stumbles…
Holcroft Covenant, The (1985)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant…
- Michael Caine globe–trots to find clues that will lead him to recover the multi–million dollar legacy of his Nazi forebearers.
Into the Night (1985)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Dan Aykroyd…
- Good–natured chase flick with Pfeiffer as a mysterious woman pursued by hired assassins and secret police. Film buffs will delight in a…
Jagged Edge (1985)
- Dir. Richard Marquand
Feat. Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote…
- Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges star in this compelling courtroom thriller about a defence attorney who romances her client who is on trial for a brutal…
Lost Tribe, The (1985)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson…
- John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
MacGyver (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- Feat. Richard Dean Anderson
- One of the 1980s most enduring TV success stories, in which Anderson played a wiry secret agent armed only with his bottomless ingenuity and…