Tagged: murder

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1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...

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1980s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

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...

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1980s / Mystery / Thriller / Uncategorized

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....

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2000s / Drama / Thriller

Fracture (2007)

Implausible, but quite watchable nonetheless, Fracture is the kind of film that one enjoys more due to the subtle performances and character touches provided by the leads than for the flawed story at the heart of...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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...

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2000s / Thriller

Vacancy (2007)

David (Wilson) and Amy (Beckinsale) are a bitterly bickering couple whose marriage is on the skids, detouring down a windy rural road for hours, completely lost. When car troubles force them off the road, they have...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Running Scared (1986)

Southside Chicago detectives Ray Hughes (Hines, Wolfen) and Danny Costanzo (Crystal, The Princess Bride) are out to put away a rising-star drug lord named Julio Gonzales (Smits, Murder in Mind), who is rumored to have killed an...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

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...

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Mystery / Thriller

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....

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1960s / Comedy / Mystery

A Shot in the Dark (1964)

A millionaire’s driver is shot dead in the room of his maid (Sommer, The Prize), and all the facts point to her guilt. Yet this doesn’t hinder the illustrious Inspector Clouseau (Sellers, Dr. Strangelove) to think she’s...