Crime – Page 4 – We Love the Eighties

We’re No Angels (1989)

Two escaped cons’ only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold’s employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide … Read more

52 Pick-Up (1986)

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife’s political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry … Read more

Thief of Hearts (1984)

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn’t know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

No Man’s Land (1987)

A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.

The Sicilian (1987)

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Something Wild (1986)

A free-spirited woman “kidnaps” a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

The First Deadly Sin (1980)

A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?

Tough Guys (1986)

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up … Read more

Rumble Fish (1983)

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother’s reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.