Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 116 Films to Rent
- Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
- Dir. Kari Skogland
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers…
- Sharp docu–drama with Jim Sturgess as Irishman Martin McGartland, charged with infiltrating the IRA during the 1980s. Tense action sequences…
- I Come with the Rain (2008)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Tran Nu Yen-Khe…
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung revives the humid, squalored atmosphere of his acclaimed CYCLO with this stylish, heavy–handed international noir. Josh…
- Julia (2008)
- Dir. Erick Zonca
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
- Gutsy, dynamic melodrama propelled by a full–tilt performance from Tilda Swinton as a loose cannon alcoholic who becomes embroiled in…
- Restraint (2008)
- Dir. David Denneen
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel
- Gripping, stripped–back thriller from across the ditch, in which an agoraphobic toff is taken hostage by a young couple on the run from the…
- Shuttle (2008)
- Dir. Edward Anderson
Feat. Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman…
- An airport shuttle ride turn into a nightmare for its nubile passengers in this tightly contained indie adbuction thriller from first–time…
- Traitor (2008)
- Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Feat. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui…
- Don Cheadle stars as a Semtex racketeer selling to the highest bidder – be he CIA or Jihadist – and finds himself a pawn on the twin…
- Vantage Point (2008)
- Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid…
- Tipsy, time–swapping political thriller cribs liberally from RASHOMON and TV–terrorist heart–stopper 24 in congealing multiple…
- 24 - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, Maria Bello
- Tantalising thriller centred on a couple whose idyllic existence is shattered when their daughter is kidnapped by a man (Brosnan) with increasingly…
- Extraordinary Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Jim Threapleton
Feat. Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni, Ania Sowinski
- Topical, slightly underdone small–budget political thriller tracks a forward thinking UK teacher who is abducted and brutally tortured in an…