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Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant (1992) is Abel Ferrara's NC-17 crime drama starring Harvey Keitel as a corrupt, drug-addicted NYPD lieutenant investigating a nun's rape; co-written by Zoë Lund, Cannes premiere.
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (1991) is the Coen brothers' black comedy about a 1941 New York playwright, played by John Turturro, who suffers writer's block writing wrestling pictures in Hollywood. It won the Palme d'Or, Best Director, and Best Actor at Cannes, the festival's first triple-award film.
Bitter Moon
Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) is Roman Polanski's 1992 French-British erotic drama, 139 minutes, adapted from Pascal Bruckner's 1981 novel, starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Peter Coyote as two couples entangled on a cruise ship.
Blink (1993 film)
Blink is a 1993 American crime thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Madeleine Stowe as a blind Chicago musician whose sight returns as she witnesses a murder.
Cape Fear (1991 film)
Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese, a remake of the 1962 film, starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, and Jessica Lange.
Consenting Adults (1992 film)
Consenting Adults is a 1992 Alan J. Pakula thriller starring Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Kevin Spacey, about a wife-swap between neighbors that leads to a staged murder and frame-up; released October 16, 1992 by Hollywood Pictures.
Crime Story (重案组)
Crime Story (重案組) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Kirk Wong, starring Jackie Chan as Inspector Eddie Chan investigating a tycoon kidnapping based on the Wang Dehui case; it won Chan the 30th Golden Horse Best Actor and the 13th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing.
Dead Again
Dead Again is a 1991 American neo-noir romantic mystery directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh opposite Emma Thompson, both in dual roles linking a 1949 Strauss murder case to 1990s Los Angeles via reincarnation; released by Paramount, grossing $35.5 million.
Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden is Ariel Dorfman's 1991 play about Paulina, a torture survivor who tries her suspected tormentor at home; also the 1994 Roman Polanski film with Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, and Stuart Wilson, titled after Schubert's quartet.
Devil in a Blue Dress (film)
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir crime film directed by Carl Franklin, adapted from Walter Mosley's first Easy Rawlins novel, starring Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle; a critical success (92% RT) that underperformed at the box office.
Disclosure (1994 film)
Disclosure (1994) is a Barry Levinson thriller starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, about a male executive accused of harassment by his new female boss; it grossed $214 million worldwide.
Europa (1991 film)
Europa (1991), released as Zentropa in the US, is Lars von Trier's Danish postwar drama-thriller concluding his Europe trilogy; it won three 1991 Cannes prizes and stars Jean-Marc Barr and Barbara Sukowa.
Falling Down
Falling Down is Joel Schumacher's 1993 Warner Bros. thriller starring Michael Douglas as D-Fens, a laid-off defense worker whose walk across Los Angeles to his daughter's birthday party becomes a violent odyssey; it earned $40.9 million and sparked debate over race and masculinity.
Full Contact (侠盗高飞)
Full Contact (俠盜高飛, Xia dao Gao Fei) is a 1992 Hong Kong action film by Ringo Lam starring Chow Yun-fat as a betrayed Bangkok bouncer seeking revenge; known for bullet point-of-view shots and Simon Yam's villain, it grossed HK$16,793,011 and became a cult favorite.
Guilty as Sin
Guilty as Sin (1993) is a Sidney Lumet courtroom thriller written by Larry Cohen, starring Rebecca De Mornay as a Chicago defense attorney and Don Johnson as a client accused of murdering his wife.
Internal Affairs (film)
Internal Affairs is a 1990 American police thriller directed by Mike Figgis, written by Henry Bean, starring Richard Gere as corrupt LAPD officer Dennis Peck and Andy Garcia as investigator Raymond Avila; released January 12, 1990 by Paramount, grossing $25.8 million, and unrelated to Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs.
JFK (film)
JFK (1991) is Oliver Stone's political thriller about Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw over the Kennedy assassination. Kevin Costner stars; it grossed over $200 million, won two Oscars, and prompted the 1992 JFK Records Act.
Just Cause (film)
Just Cause is a 1995 American legal thriller directed by Arne Glimcher, based on John Katzenbach's 1992 novel, starring Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, and Ed Harris.
Kalifornia
Kalifornia is a 1993 American crime thriller directed by Dominic Sena, starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, and Michelle Forbes on a road trip with a serial killer.
King of New York
King of New York: 1990 Abel Ferrara crime film, written by Nicholas St. John, starring Christopher Walken as drug lord Frank White; Italian-funded, New Line-distributed cult classic.
La Cérémonie
La Cérémonie (1995) is Claude Chabrol's French-German thriller adapted from Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone, starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert as a maid and postmistress who murder their employers; both won the Venice Volpi Cup, and Huppert won a 1996 César.
Léon: The Professional
Léon: The Professional (Léon) is Luc Besson's 1994 French-made English-language crime thriller starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman in her debut, and Gary Oldman, released in the US as The Professional.
Narrow Margin
Narrow Margin (1990) is a Peter Hyams action thriller starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer, a remake of the 1952 RKO noir The Narrow Margin, set on a train through the Canadian Rockies; it grossed $10.1 million on a $21 million budget.
Pacific Heights (film)
Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological thriller directed by John Schlesinger, starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton as a tenant who torments a San Francisco couple.
Point Break
Point Break (1991) is Kathryn Bigelow's action film in which FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) infiltrates surfing bank robbers, the Ex-Presidents, led by Bodhi (Patrick Swayze); originally titled Riders on the Storm, remade in 2015, sequel series planned.
Point of No Return (1993 film)
Point of No Return (The Assassin) is John Badham's 1993 American remake of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, starring Bridget Fonda as Maggie, a condemned killer retrained as a government assassin; it grossed $30 million domestically.
Presumed Innocent (film)
Presumed Innocent (1990) is Alan J. Pakula's courtroom thriller starring Harrison Ford as prosecutor Rusty Sabich, tried for murdering his colleague and lover Carolyn Polhemus; adapted from Scott Turow's 1987 bestseller, it grossed $59.6 million in five weeks and was remade as a 2024 Apple TV+ series.
Rising Sun (1993 film)
Rising Sun (1993) is a Philip Kaufman mystery thriller starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, adapted from Michael Crichton's Japan-bashing bestseller; released by Fox July 30, 1993, protested by Asian-American groups, grossing $62.5 million.
Rock n' Roll Cop (省港一号通缉犯)
Rock n' Roll Cop (省港一號通緝犯) is a 1994 Hong Kong crime action thriller directed by Kirk Wong, starring Anthony Wong as a Hong Kong inspector partnered with a mainland detective (Wu Hsing-kuo) hunting border-crossing robbers; the finale of Wong's cop trilogy.
Run Away (런어웨이) (1995 film)
Run Away (런어웨이) is a 1995 South Korean action thriller, Kim Sung-soo's feature debut, starring Lee Byung-hun and Kim Eun-jeong as murder witnesses hunted by a criminal organization; released December 30, 1995, 106 minutes, no-minors rating.