# Crimes of Passion (1984)

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**Runtime**: 107 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ken Russell
**Written by**: Barry Sandler
**Starring**: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison, Norman Burton

> *It's a Lovely Life.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight on a neon-crusted boulevard, the hum of a faulty neon sign.

Joanna Crane stitches silk by day, sells silk by night. China Blue’s shadow grows long enough to catch the eye of a detective obsessed with the streets he polices. A priest slips rosary beads into a leather case lined with teeth.

Russell’s fever-dream flick weaves lust and violence like stained glass.

**Mood tags**: sexy, surreal, unhinged

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