Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Policier: 239 Films to Rent
- Street Kings (2008)
- Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Forest Whitaker…
- LA CONFIDENTIAL author James Ellroy and the writer of TRAINING DAY team up for this ultra–macho, ultra–violent LAPD–centric…
- Wallander (TV Series, UK) (2008)
- Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Sarah Smart, Sadie Shimmin
- UK adaptation of Henning Mankell’s crime novels sees Branagh take on the titular role of the grizzled Nordic detective, solving gristly crimes in…
- Whitechapel (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton
- Atmospheric detective show focused on a group of detectives who are trying to track down a Jack The Ripper copycat.
Filmed entirely in the East…
- Brave One, The (2007)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews, Terrence Howard
- Jodie’s gotta gun, here playing a radio jock turned vigilante avenging her husband's fatal mugging in Neil Jordan's tough stylish, revenge…
- Exodus (Cheut ai kup gei) (2007)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Annie Liu
- An indifferent Hong Kong detective slowly becomes convinced that women are conspiring to kill off the entire male species in this curious melange of…
- Flock, The (2007)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau
Feat. Richard Gere, Claire Danes, Ray Wise…
- Creepy thriller with Gere as a vigilant federal agent in pursuit of a recently paroled sex offender. Danes is the rookie along for the…
- George Gently (TV Series) (Inspector George Gently) (2007)
- Feat. Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby
- Retro policier with a superb attention to detail, starring Martin Shaw as the eponymous inspector whose old–school detective methods are caught…
- Girl by the Lake, The (La ragazza del lago) (2007)
- Dir. Andrea Molaioli
Feat. Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia…
- A murder–mystery that swept Italy's Academy Awards set in an idyllic North Italian village where a beautiful young girl is found murdered.…
- Gone Baby Gone (2007)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman…
- Surprisingly gutsy and sure–footed urban crime drama from actor Ben Affleck, who stays behind the camera to direct his brother, Casey, as a…
- I Witness (2007)
- Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. Portia de Rossi, Jeff Daniels, James Spader…
- When the bodies of 27 Mexican factory workers are found in an underpass, an American human rights activist gets embroiled in Tijuana's political and…