12. Gorky Park
Featuring a great pair of leads in William Hurt and Lee Marvin, Gorky Park is a sorely underrated police-procedural, one helped immeasurably by its unfamiliar Soviet setting and its central case's ties to political bureaucracy, which sees the grisly triple-murder at the heart of the film beset on all sides by inferences to the conspiratorial upper echelons of the Russian government. Tightly controlled by director Michael Apted (working off a fantastic Dennis Potter script), Gorky Park can be seen as a definite precursor to the modern Scandavian-Noir genre, if not in exact location, than at least in its harsh, icy, unforgiving winter terrain and its austere, emotionless band of detectives, criminals, and politicians.