1986's Blue Velvet, the neo-noir thriller from David Lynch, is finding success on streaming following the death of its great director. The movie, starring Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan, has climbed to the list of most-watched films on Max. Blue Velvet stars Rossellini and MacLachlan alongside Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange, Frances Bay, Brad Dourif, and Jack Nance, among others. Written and directed by Lynch, Blue Velvet is a classic thriller that follows Jeffrey Beaumont, who becomes part of a criminal conspiracy that involves a lounge singer named Dorothy and a violent gangster named Frank Booth.

The synopsis reads as follows:

"The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child."

Released in the middle of the 1980s, the same year as Top Gun,...