New Crime Movies on Amazon Video - Page 248

Mob War

1989

Mob War

1989
4.8
When the New York City police disrupt a big cocaine deal, the TV news reporters find John Falcone, a local mobster, nearby. They ask some tough questions, and Falcone decides he needs a public relations man to help burnish his image. He hires Todd Barrett, and he keeps Barrett in line with generous helpings of cocaine. Meanwhile, Falcone's unorthodox, violent, and sadistic methods get him cross-wise with Don Ricci, the boss. A mob war may break out. When Todd's wife is endangered, can the flack attack back at the racketeers?
An Innocent Man

1989

An Innocent Man

1989
6.1
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Criminal Act

1989

Criminal Act

1989
5.3
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.
Mortal Sins

1989

Mortal Sins

1989
1
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
Sea of Love

1989

Sea of Love

1989
6.6
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Johnny Handsome

1989

Johnny Handsome

1989
6.3
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Relentless

1989

Relentless

1989
5.5
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Nick Knight

1989

Nick Knight

1989
6.4
Detective Nick Knight is investigating a series of murders in which the bodies are found drained of blood - but the most recent one doesn't fit the pattern. Instead it involves the cure that Nick has been searching for for decades, so that he himself can face the light of day. Later remade as the first two episodes of Forever Knight.
Homer and Eddie

1989

Homer and Eddie

1989
5.6
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
Cold Light of Day

1989

Cold Light of Day

1989
5.3
February, 1983. Detectives are called to a residential address in the London suburbs following reports that the drains have been clogged by human remains. One of the property’s residents, Dennis Nilsen – a mild-mannered and unassuming civil servant – is brought in for questioning, leading to the discovery of one of the most shocking and disturbing cases of serial murder ever to rock Britain.
Violent Cop

1989

Violent Cop

1989
7.2
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Lock Up

1989

Lock Up

1989
6.8
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Cookie

1989

Cookie

1989
5.2
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
Turner & Hooch

1989

Turner & Hooch

1989
6.3
Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.
The Jigsaw Murders

1989

The Jigsaw Murders

1989
4.6
A jigsaw puzzle is the key in a detective's investigation of a gruesome murder.
Lethal Weapon 2

1989

Lethal Weapon 2

1989
7
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Weekend at Bernie's

1989

Weekend at Bernie's

1989
6.4
Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Action U.S.A.

1989

Action U.S.A.

1989
5.4
After her boyfriend is murdered by the gangsters whose diamonds he stole, a girl is protected by two FBI agents who plan to keep her from sharing the same fate.
Batman

1989

Batman

1989
7.2
Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.
We're No Angels

1989

We're No Angels

1989
6.1
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.