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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Dressed to Kill (1980)- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen - A slick video nasty involving a murderer, a prostitute, a psychiatrist, a bored housewife and her resourceful son. In reworking PSYCHO, De Palma…
First Deadly Sin, The (1980)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Bruce Willis… - Probably Ol' Blue Eyes' last decent film, giving an understated, effective performance as a pressured NYC detective hunting a serial killer and…
Formula, The (1980)- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller… - Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Robert Atzom, Heinz Bennent, Martin Benrath - A dark themed and intricately plotted drama from dir. Bergman's later period, concerning a businessman who commits the sex–murder of a…
Gloria (1980)- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen - Rowlands is devastating as a gangster moll who runs from the Mob after taking protective custody of a neighbour's son, whose parents have fallen…
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