Thriller Movies of 1990
The Hunt for Red October
The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Wild at Heart
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Misery
Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
A Show of Force
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Melendez (Amy Irving) investigates the death of two radical ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Presumed Innocent
Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a bland, oppressed man who burns with a quiet, corrosive intensity that can flare uncontrollably. A Philadelphia prosecutor, Sabich's fire seems to have one outlet: his job. He loves prosecuting people. ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Flatliners
Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
La Femme Nikita
The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours directed by Michael Cimino, is an ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
A Shock to the System
Shock to the System is a black comedy about a middle-aged advertising executive (Michael Caine) who loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man (Peter Reigret). In frustration, Caine accidentally pushes a ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Jacob's Ladder
A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Pacific Heights
John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Kindergarten Cop
Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Narrow Margin
Narrow Margin directed by Peter Hyams and loosely based on the classic ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Internal Affairs
In this glossy L.A. crime drama by Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as Sgt. Raymond Avila, a cop who just joined the Internal Affairs division of the L.A.P.D. An investigation ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Revenge
Kevin Costner plays an ex-pilot who visits the posh Mexican estate of an old associate (Anthony Quinn) "Tibey" Mendes, for a bit of R & R. Tibey has turned into a very powerful Godfather type who rules his world and those who touch it. Costner ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
The Hot Spot
This hard-boiled throwback to the film noir dramas of the 1940s and '50s is directed by filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. Don Johnson stars as ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Cat Chaser
Elmore Leonard's brittle novel is brought to the screen in this adaptation by ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
It
Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Bad Influence
Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Solar Crisis
A group of scientists are sent to the sun in 2050 to stop a giant solar flare from destroying the Earth. As the team nears the sun, some members of the team begin to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage their ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
83 Hours 'Til Dawn utilizes a plot device originally seen on another fact-based TV movie, The Longest Night (1972). Robert Urich stars as a wealthy business executive whose ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Murder C.O.D.
The made-for-TV Murder C.O.D. has a plot almost as ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Hidden Agenda
This political thriller is set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" and directed in the documentary fashion common to British ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Class of 1999
Mark L. Lester's follow-up film to his Class of 1984 is a rancidly ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Lena's Holiday
In Lena's Holiday, the title heroine (Felicity Waterman) is an East German who makes the most of her newfound post-Berlin Wall freedom to visit Los Angeles. After crossing paths with ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Child's Play 2
A derivative rehashing of its predecessor (which itself owes a heavy debt to Trilogy of Terror), this ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Wild Search
Action flick auteur Ringo Lam directs this crime ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Body Chemistry
When a bodacious doctor assists a married sex researcher in the lab, they begin an affair that she seems to grow obsessed with. Before ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Alligator Eyes
Three of life's losers stage a reunion early in the proceedings of Alligator Eyes. Renewing their long-standing friendship are ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
The Art of Dying
Wings Hauser both stars in and directs The Art of Dying. Hauser plays Jack, a vice cop who tries to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders in which each of ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Bad Girls from Mars
This is a movie about a movie that is entitled Bad Girls from Mars. Mystery develops when the bountifully buxomed leading ladies are murdered one-by-one. All fingers point to a mysterious masked man who is leaving notes around ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Bloodmoon
This silly Australian slasher film concerns a psychopath strangling students at an elite Catholic girls' school run by a strange married couple. Myles and Virginia Sheffield ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Descending Angel
Originally made for cable television, this suspenseful thriller centers on a private investigation launched by a ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
The Fatal Image
Fatal Image stars Michele Lee as a recent divorcee and Justine Bateman as her daughter. Forgetting their domestic travails, mother and daughter take a trip to Paris. Here things get pretty ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Lockdown
Framed for a murder he did not commit, a detective is sent to a prison ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor
Making optimum use of its limited budget, this intense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror film involves the bizarre results of genetic experiments performed by Dr. ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Night Shadow
Randolph Cohlan both wrote and directed the ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Singapore Sling
In this odd Greek horror thriller, which takes place entirely at night during a thunderstorm, a murderous and wealthy mother-and-daughter team are hard pressed to cope with the ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Baby Brown
Two gorgeous policewomen take on a ruthless gangster in the explosive direct-to-video action spectacle, Baby Brown. When her previous partner is wounded in the line of duty, undercover cop Toni O'Hara gets more than she ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
Atentado
When an ambitious gang of international terrorists target the Pope for assassination, it's up to one lone cop to ensure the safety of the ... [ Thriller movie - 1990 ]
