Crime Movies of 1988
Tequila Sunrise
For his first directorial project in six years, Robert Towne selected a timeworn romantic-triangle yarn, injecting the material with subtlety and conviction. ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Married to the Mob
Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Party Line
In this slasher film, the exuberant young participants upon a party-line, a fad during the '80s in which young people called a special number and talked to many others in hopes of making a love connection, ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Things Change
Perhaps it was his collaborator Shel Silverstein who said to screenwriter David Mamet "Lighten up. Do a ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
The Blue Iguana
In exchange for staying out of jail, down-and-out bounty hunter Vince Holloway ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Necessity
Loni Anderson, James Naughton, and John Heard star in this tense tale of a ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Kansas
A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
As Tears Go By
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
A Better Tomorrow II
Following the bloody climax of the previous film, A Better Tomorrow -- again directed by John Woo -- opens with Sung Chi-hi (spelled Tse-ho in the ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Buster
On August 8, 1963, the Royal Mail train, on its nighttime run from London to Glasgow, was robbed by 15 ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Murder One
This crime drama is based on the true story of Billy Isaacs who with his brothers killed a family of six. The story unfolds from Billy's perspective and follows their exploits after they escape from a Maryland prison and embark upon the ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Shakedown
In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
21 Jump Street: Season 02
Season two of 21 Jump Street finds a team of youthful LAPD officers continuing to weed out adult criminals by posing as high-school teenagers -- a sort of Mod Squad for the 1980s. Back in harness are Johnny Depp as ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
L.A. Heat
Ex-football great Jim Brown co-stars in this blood-filled police actioner with former Welcome Back Kotter "Sweathog"Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs. In the story, Jon Chance (Jacobs) is a police detective with a very active fantasy life, who must ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Mob War
When a media-relations mogul (Johnny Stumper) gains another client in the form of a mob boss (David Henry Keller), it sparks a war between rival families. ~ John ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Thrilled to Death
When they unknowingly become involved in another couple's scheme involving drugs and murder, an innocent married couple have a difficult time understanding what is happening to them. ~ Kristie Hassen, All ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Whisper Kill
In this made-for-TV thriller, Liz Barlett (Loni Anderson) is a rookie journalist covering a series of murders that seem to have touched nearly everyone she knows. When one of ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Street of Dreams
In this detective yarn, an amiable investigator finds himself entangled with mobsters after he ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Nitti
Al Capone's imprisonment opened the way for mobster Frank Nitti to become the underworld king of Chicago as related in this true story. (AKA Nitti) ~ All Movie Guide [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
In the Line of Duty 3
Cynthia Yang Li-ching replaces Michelle Yeoh in the lead for this wild and woolly police thriller directed by Arthur Wong and Brandy ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Hero of Tomorrow
Max Mok Siu-Chung, Miu Kiu-Wai and Joan Tong Lai-Kau star in this crime ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Dragon Family
Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Kar-wing directed this gangster-themed crime-drama about the internecine struggles within a powerful triad family. Lung Ying (Ko Chun Hsiung) is the patriarch of the clan, and -- in a setup ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
On the Run
An honest cop framed for the murder of his wife by his disreputable colleagues sets out to capture the true culprit with authorities hot on his trail in a noir-styled action thriller starring Yuen ... [ Crime movie - 1988 ]
Women Prison
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