Best Crime Films of 1989

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Family Business

You've probably already guessed ... worth of test-tube specimens. There's many a slip-up and betrayal before the three generations can find a common ground. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Killing Dad

When a father attempts ... return to his abandoned family after 23 years his grown son tries to murder his drunk, unemployed father. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Downtown

When suburban police officer ... with his gruff new partner, Dennis Curren (Forest Whitaker), as the two attempt to break up a crime ring. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

The Banker

John Garfieldesque leading man ... Richard Roundtree, Leif Garrett, Jeff Conaway, and E. J. Peaker dot the supporting cast of this contemporary Jack-the-Ripper chiller. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Street of No Return

Sam Fuller's last film ... his career. Years later, Michael crosses paths with Eddie and his thugs again and gets a chance for revenge. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Dead Bang

A police detective (Don ... of a fellow officer. He follows the trail and is shocked to find a white-supremacist conspiracy in the process. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

True Blood

When a man returns ... under the leadership of an old rival who framed him for the murder of a policeman ten years prior. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Crack House

A drama involving the ... two students (Gregg Gomez Thomsen, Cheryl Kay) trying to attend school while living with the pressures of ghetto life. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Relentless

A man who fails ... wouldn't hire him. He uses all his cop smarts to try to elude all who dare try capture him. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Full Exposure: The Sex Tape Scandal

Full Exposure: The Sex ... Sex Tapes Scandal was mercifully buried in the ratings by its powerhouse competition: the premiere telecast of Lonesome Dove. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Traffik

This four-hour, six-episode British ... and other British officials, cracks down on the subsistence-level farmers who supply the heroin trade with its raw materials. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

21 Jump Street: Season 03

Johnny Depp and the ... an outraged Tom Hanson seeks personal vengeance against the punks who seriously wounded his fellow officer Ioki (Dustin Nguyen). [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Cemetery High

Murderous high school babes ... the fellas. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Emperor of the Bronx

Cycle-flick habitue William Smith ... that the bloodshed in the last reel is almost anti-climactic. As always, the ubiquitous Smith rises above his material. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Fortress of Amerikkka

The safety of the ... deadly weapon and only the heroics of a small California town can prevent the mercenaries from using the weapon. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Midnight Warrior

While investigating the seamy ... life of Los Angeles, a reporter begins to find himself involved too deeply with his subjects. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

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Maron Namikaze is all ... may sound too half-baked to work, but little do the Demon Seed know...this pretty little singer has super-human strength. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Casino Raiders

Hong Kong filmmakers Jimmy ... Casino Raiders II and No Risk, No Gain: Casino Raiders -- The Sequel were among many knockoffs which followed. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Ghost Ballroom

When May, a singer ... plotted with her to assassinate the local gang leader, and they have every intention of carrying out the plan. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

Alien Nation [TV Series]

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Killers by Nature

A pair of former ... unlikely killers succumb to a brutal rage of bloodlust the likes of which this small town has never seen. [ best crime films - 1989 ]

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