Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3177 Films to Buy & Rent
FX (F/X) (1986)
- Dir. Robert Mandel
Feat. Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy
- Some ingenious set pieces and explosive effects highlight this superior action–suspenser. An FX expert is employed to fake the death of a VIP,…
Gladiator, The (1986)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Ken Wahl, Robert Culp, Nancy Allen
- Telemovie excursion for Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT), pummeling viewers with a patented and occasionally intriguing exercise in petrolhead…
Half Moon Street (1986)
- Dir. Bob Swaim
Feat. Michael Caine, Sigourney Weaver
- Michael Caine and Sigourney Weaver play British diplomat and call–girl who become locked in escalating political intrigue.
Hitcher, The (1986)
- Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- One of the best and most terrifying thrillers to be made in the '80s. A superbly controlled, often shocking account of a young motorist who is…
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.