A Stranger Among Us

Jul 17, 1992

1h 50m

★ 5.5

In a dangerous world of mystery and intrigue, she's going undercover searching for the truth.

Overview

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Hollywood Pictures

ISIS

Mansfield Pictures

Propaganda Films

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Sandollar Productions

A Stranger Among Us Trailers

Cast

Emily Eden

Melanie Griffith

Ariel

Eric Thal

Levine

John Pankow

Mara

Tracy Pollan

Rebbe

Lee Richardson

Leah

Mia Sara

Nick

Jamey Sheridan

Yaakov

Jake Weber

Mendel

Ro'ee Levi

Mr. Klausman

David Rosenbaum

Mrs. Klausman

Ruth Vool

Lt. Oliver

David Margulies

Crashed and sunken in a murky sea, a passenger plane had a very special package... a briefcase full of diamonds. These illegally acquired and transported missing diamonds become an irresistible challenge to a few interest groups. They will kill, deceive, and plot to capture the diamonds for themselves.

6.1

How She Caught A Killer

Sep 16, 2023

Inspired by a true story, rookie detective Linda Murphy (Sarah Drew) is fresh out of the police academy when she hears her boss, detective David Goodman (Eric Keenleyside) talking about a serial killer in the area who seems to be targeting sex workers. Teaming up with FBI agent Neil Carter (Jamall Johnson), Linda fights to go undercover to help solve the murders and, if all goes accordingly, capture a serial killer.

6.2

I Saw What You Did

Jul 21, 1965

Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.

5.0

Pyro... The Thing Without a Face

Jan 22, 1964

A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.

5.8

Behind the Mask

Feb 25, 1932

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

6.2

Hammett

Jun 9, 1982

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

5.5

Picture Claire

Sep 10, 2001

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.

4.3

Hitcher in the Dark

Jan 1, 1989

A sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape and murder.

6.6

Naked Violence

Nov 10, 1969

Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.

4.9

Madness

Mar 20, 1980

An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.

5.5

Delirium: Photo of Gioia

Apr 2, 1987

Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.

6.1

Hard to Die

Oct 9, 1990

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings years back, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

6.9

The Mad Magician

May 19, 1954

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

4.2

Seven Murders for Scotland Yard

Jul 10, 1972

Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!

6.7

Payback

Feb 10, 1997

Kathryn runs a restaurant but one night she calls the police after she sees a suspicious man waiting in his car. However Kathryn sees one of the three police officers, Kaleen, assault the man with their sticks and kicking them. Under advice from Jack, the police internal investigator, she tells a court and Kaleen is put on suspension and kept to his rank for the rest of the career. However Kathryn gets weird phone calls, her son is arrested for murder and her teaching husband's career is threatened by checks on his record. All of this is because Kaleen is out for revenge and he plans to use the law and his friends in the police to do it. Only Kathryn, her family and Jack stands in his way.

6.6

The House of Hate

Jan 2, 1918

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...

6.8

The Informers

Nov 29, 1963

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

3.7

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance

Oct 9, 2015

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations being committed by a secret group of female vigilante killers.