Jagged Edge (1985)
In San Francisco, a rich heiress and her maid are found murdered, leaving the husband everything, including the accusation for the killings. That man is Jack Forrester (Bridges, Starman), whose marriage allowed him to rise...
Category: Mystery
Shattered (1991)
Tom Berenger (Major League, Butch & Sundance) plays a rich San Francisco businessman named Tom Merrick, recently involved in a terrible car accident that sees him need major face and body reconstruction in order to...
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Usual Suspects is one of those rare thrillers where the more you think you know, the less you truly do. Essentially, it’s all a big mind game movie, seemingly placing all of its emphasis...
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Star Lindsay Lohan (Georgia Rule, Chapter 27) spends the bulk of this movie trying to get revenge on the mysterious person who has “killed” her, although the person she really needs to exact justice on...
The Bedroom Window (1987)
In the early 1980s, filmmaker Curtis Hanson had just come off of directing Losin’ It, a teen comedy about a group of young American men who travel to Tijuana, Mexico to lose their virginity....
The Player (1992)
Tim Robbins (Cadillac Man, Tapeheads) plays hotshot Hollywood studio exec Griffin Mill, who believes that he may soon be on the outs with the studio now that they’ve hired another up-and-comer in Larry Levy (Gallagher, Sex...
The Game (1997)
You have to concede at least a certain brilliance to any consciously manipulative film in which a man looks into the eyes of a puppet, only for the puppet (represented by a dummy, a...
The 4th Dimension (2006)
Louis Morabito stars as Jack Emitni (backward “in time”, get it?), who spends most of his days in a workshop fixing antiques for demanding customers. His latest project is an old mantle clock that...
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Based on James Ellroy’s novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public...
Presumed Innocent (1990)
After an assistant D.A. (Scacchi, Shattered) is found brutally murdered, all the evidence points to D.A. Rusty Sabich (Ford, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), who was involved with an affair with her shortly before her death....