Thriller Movies of 1989
The January Man
This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, the former playwright who wrote Cher's hit romantic comedy Moonstruck. Kevin Kline stars as Nick Starkey, a brilliant former New York City ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
The Package
The Package, a thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
The Mighty Quinn
Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Sea of Love
Sea of Love is a sexy, atmospheric thriller, very much in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, with ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Violent Cop
Television comedian, author of a number of books, and star in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Dead Calm
Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Physical Evidence
Though this police and courtroom drama did not do ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
The Night Visitor
A teenager puts his life in jeopardy when he tries to convince authorities that his high school's most unpopular teacher is a murderous Satanist who likes to ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Black Rain
Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
L.A. Vice
This actioner is the sequel to the film LA Heat and chronicles the further exploits of Chance, a street-wise gumshoe who ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This 60-minute TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 doppelganger yarn stars Anthony Andrews as kindly London medico Henry ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker was a ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
True Believer
The only True Believer at the beginning of this drama is idealistic young attorney Robert Downey Jr., who apprentices under the guidance of celebrated ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Downtown
When suburban police officer Alex Kearney (Anthony Edwards) angers a wealthy, influential citizen by stopping ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
The Banker
John Garfieldesque leading man Robert Forster plays a cop in The Banker. The title character is above-suspicion financier Duncan Regehr, whom Forster suspects of being a ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Leviathan
Leviathan, a sci-fi thriller directed by George Pan Cosmatos, is the story of a group of scientists who discover a sunken Russian submarine which contains a monster that is the product of a genetic experiment. This film, a hybrid of both ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Perfect Witness
The Perfect Witness is New York restaurant owner Aidan Quinn. After witnessing a mob murder, Quinn does ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Black Rainbow
British director Mike Hodges brought an extra measure of integrity to this made-for-TV thriller. Rosanna Arquette stars as Martha Travis, a ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Miracle Mile
Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Far from Home
Former child star and one-time scandal magnet Drew Barrymore had her first teenage role in this offbeat thriller with comic overtones. Charlie Cross (Matt Frewer) is ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Once again, Charles Bronson plays a renegade cop out for vigilante justice in the darkest heart of the urban jungle. This time, he is targeting ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Kill Me Again
In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction), weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Blind Witness
Victoria Principal plays the sightless but extremely independent wife of Stephen Macht, who is murdered by intruders in her presence (a harrowing sequence, even within TV ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Renegades
Director Jack Sholder followed his surprise sleeper hit The Hidden ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Melancholia
Melancholia is a British suspenser, filmed and financed in Germany. Jeroen Krabbe plays a German art critic who in more turbulent times had been a radical activist. Krabbe's ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Edge of Sanity
This demented fusion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the legend of Jack the Ripper marks one of the final roles for Anthony Perkins, and certainly one of the weirdest performances of his ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
To Die For
The never ending battle between good and evil continues as history's most notorious bloodsucker turns up in modern day Los Angeles in ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Blind Fear
This Canadian suspense film is basically a remake of Wait Until Dark, with Shelley Hack starring as a blind switchboard-operator at an isolated resort lodge in Maine. A trio of desperate criminals arrive, and the ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
By Dawn's Early Light
Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
In the Cold of the Night
In the Cold of the Night is an above-average erotic thriller, directed with superb visual style by Nico Mastorakis, ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Nightmare at Bitter Creek
In this made-for-TV thriller, a quartet of female ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Society
The directorial debut of horror producer Brian Yuzna, this low-budget shocker was an overseas success but sat on ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Stripped to Kill II
Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls, the sequel to the ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Tusks
When a famous artist agrees to visit a wildlife preserve in Africa to draw attention to the illegal hunting of elephants, she finds herself involved in a personal war between two old rivals--an elephant poacher and ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Woodchipper Massacre
Dead Auntie Tess is frozen solid in the family freezer. Just as her three ghoulish relatives are about ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Muertes Anunciadas
Julio Ruiz Llaneza helms the gritty, western-tinged, Spanish-language thriller Muertes Anunciadas. The saga ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Magic Cop
Lam Ching-ying stars in this wild and woolly supernatural crime spectacular as Fung ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Web of Deception
Cinematographer-turned-director David Chung Chi-man spins this taut homage to Alfred Hitchcock. The ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Hitcher in the Dark
Giallo filmmaker Umberto Lenzi directs the exploitative thriller Hitcher in the Dark under the pseudonym of Humphrey Humbert. Mark (Joe Balogh) is a psychopath who is obsessed with his late mother. He drives around Venice Beach, CA, looking for ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Killers by Nature
A pair of former high school nerds develop a taste for blood after a harmless prank goes horribly wrong in this tale of revenge that may make bullies think twice before taking their anger out on the class misfit. Though the two nerds had only ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
Luz y Sombra
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Buscando la Muerte
The thriller Buscando La Muerte concerns a national security advisor whose job ... [ Thriller movie - 1989 ]
