Dial M for Murder (1954)
Tony Wendice is a former tennis star whose wealthy wife is having an affair with an old friend of theirs. He plans on murdering her and getting her insurance money, and to facilitate shifting...
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Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
A professional mafia hit man (Nicholson, The Postman Always Rings Twice) falls for an equally tenacious hit woman (Turner, Romancing the Stone), but past crimes against his family put her in a precarious standing. Prizzi’s Honor is...
Black Mask (1996)
After all but one of a team of professional assassins known as Squad 701 are killed off by the government, the survivor known as Black Mask (Jet Li, The Legend II) hides out and takes a...
El Mariachi (1992)
A roving mariachi (Gallardo, Grindhouse) in search of work hops from bar to bar in a small Mexican town, carrying his guitar case along with him. Problems arise when a hitman (Martinez) arrives in town, and...
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The third, and arguably best installment in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series, this time once again starring Harrison Ford (The Fugitive, Presumed Innocent) as the CIA Deputy Director. This time out, he’s sent to Colombia...
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A young woman (Lockwood, Night Train to Munich) heads home by train for her wedding, but along the way discovers that the woman she has tea with (Whitty, Suspicion) mysteriously disappears. After searching the train and questioning fellow...
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Martians invade Earth for a better place to live, and seemingly no weapon the military can hurl at them can stop the UFOs. Impressive visuals are the real draw of this adaptation of the...
The Firm (1993)
An ambitious young lawyer (Cruise, A Few Good Men) joins a close-knit firm of lawyers who offer him more money than he ever imagined and a seemingly idyllic life in the suburbs. Problem is that this...
Midnight Run (1988)
An ex-cop turned bounty hunter (De Niro) will get $100,000 for bringing in an accountant (Grodin) that embezzled $15 million from a giant Chicago mob boss. It figured to be a piece of cake. Still, things...
The Cable Guy (1996)
Ah, yes. The old Strangers on a Train formula. Unassuming good guy gets mixed up with a well-meaning but clinging psychotic who invades every aspect of his life and when told to go away determines to...