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Best Thriller Films of 1991


Cape Fear

Martin Scorsese's remake of ... of Cape Fear. De Niro and Lewis were both nominated for Academy Awards for their work in the film. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

The Comfort of Strangers

In this erotic thriller, ... Pinter from the novel by Ian McEwan. Richardson previously starred in Patty Hearst, Schrader's portrait of the newspaper heiress-turned-terrorist. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

A Kiss Before Dying

This thriller is the ... the identity of her sister's unknown lover. Director James Dearden also wrote Fatal Attraction (1987), which contains similar themes. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Mortal Thoughts

Mortal Thoughts is a ... carnival, James is killed, and Joyce and her best friend Cynthia (Demi Moore) try to cover up the murder. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Ricochet

Ricochet, a suspenseful, exciting ... Ricochet is an exiting suspense film with a fine performance by Washington and worth watching despite its disappointing conclusion. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Shattered

Wolfgang Petersen directed this ... his past, Dan hires retired private eye Gus Klein (Bob Hoskins), who works with Dan to unravel his past. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Fever

In this violent made-for ... a lawyer, the other an ex-con determined to reform, team up to save the life of their lady love. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Victim of Love

In the made-for-television thriller ... he murdered his wife in order to be with Madsen, the therapist is thrown into a world of danger. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Defenseless

In this suspense drama, ... police detective George Beutel (Sam Shepard) begin to plant a seed of doubt in her mind about Ellie's innocence. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

F/X 2

In F/X2: The Deadly ... this compels Rollie to come up with a series of dazzling live-action special effects to confound the bad guys. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Sleeping with the Enemy

Hot off her success ... short-lived. Martin has discovered that Laura has staged her drowning and is coming to Iowa to reclaim his possession. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Company Business

The demise of the ... help from the CIA, but it turns out that the CIA (along with the KGB) wants them both dead. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

One False Move

Carl Franklin made his ... frenetic frame of One False Move, and his movie was one of the most acclaimed independent releases of 1991. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Raw Nerve

When, during a rash ... in question so after he's slaughtered in a shoot-out, they figure they've solved the shotgun slayings. But have they? [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Year of the Gun

In this thriller, American ... As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Deceived

Goldie Hawn delivers a ... work on her own to find out who her husband really was. This is when the danger really begins. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm ... release in Germany but released straight to video in the United States, is a small, well-made thriller, well-worth viewing. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Victim of Beauty

In this made-for-cable TV ... her success earns her more admiration than she bargained for when a deranged killer begins murdering her male friends. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Evil Spirits

An interesting bit of ... counterbalance the occasional moments of sleaziness, but there is little originality to distinguish the film from standard slasher fare. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Dead Sleep

Adapted from true events, ... gradually discovers the grisly truth about a head doctor (Tony Bonner) who performs rather suspect operations on comatose patients. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

The Servants of Twilight

Based on Dean R. ... detective (Bruce Greenwood) is hired to save the boy and his mother from the terrorization of the religious cult. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking

Several years have passed ... there is still enough juice left for the spooky climax, which borrows a riff from Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Dead Certain

A serial killer is ... and pump him for everything he knows. Meanwhile women continue to suffer horrible deaths at the killer's cruel hands. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Golden Years

This made-for-TV mini-series from ... covered with experimental chemicals following a laboratory mishap. Now the government will stop at nothing to get him back. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

A Time to Die

In this thriller, a ... cop catches her catching him and now her life and the life of her son is in terrible danger. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

El Asesino del Metro

The Spanish language thriller ... Asesino del Metro concerns the hunt for a serial killer who haunts subways, choosing women as his unsuspecting victims. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Mob Justice

The fact-based TV movie ... and Alive is played by Ted Levine, previously cast as the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs (1991). [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Luna Llena

Despite regulations that prohibit ... for one another. Difficult and tragic conditions in Venezuela's mental health facilities are clearly illuminated in this well-regarded drama. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Capital Punishment

The plot of David ... with his plan. However he will soon have to face off against the drug lord in order to survive. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Brain Twisters

In this tame thriller, ... students become very violent after being exposed to the game, and the professor becomes involved in a police investigation. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

The Tigers

TVB network's five most ... to unmask their misdeed, but Fong, who's still at large and hungry for revenge, is threatening to tell all. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Red Shield

In this action-packed thriller ... the cops by kidnapping their wives. Red Shield stars Danny Lee, Teresa Mo, Michael Dingo, and Leung Kar Yan. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]

Dead Target

A notorious jewel smuggler ... mission thwarted by a do-gooder grandfather and his adventurous daughter in director Lee Shiu Wah's action packed international romp. [ best thriller films - 1991 ]




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