Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Mean Season, The (1985)
- Dir. Phillip Borsos
Feat. Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan…
- Hack reporter Kurt Russell's propensity for a story edges him dangerously close to crazed psycho Richard Jordan.
Mesmerized (1985)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…
- Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Mr. Wrong (1985)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton
- A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
P.D. James Collection, The (TV Series) (1985-1998)
- Feat. Roy Marsden
- Award winning drama collections written by P.D. James detailing the challenges of a disciplined detective commander solving a series of scandalous…
Police (1985)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina
- Brilliantly idiosyncratic crime thriller co–written by French auteurs Maurice Pialat (who also directs) and Catherine Breillat (A MA SOEUR!),…
Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985)
- Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan
- UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (1985-1993)
- Feat. Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke
- The long–running British TV Series which comprehensively stages the various cases of proto–detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan…
Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil? (1985)
- Dir. Graham McLean
Feat. Beaver , Harry Lyon
- Musos Beaver and Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor have a bash at acting in a story based on the Mr Asia drug–ring. Music by Hammond Gamble.