Aro Favourite: Suspense/Crime
44 Suspense/Crime Films have attained the hallowed status of Aro Favourite
- Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
- An extraordinary, multi–layered dramatic thriller from France that deservingly won the Palm D'or at Cannes.
For the past year, Sandra, a…
- DVD $29.95
- Holy Spider (2022)
- An astonishing new film from Ali Abbasi, who makes good on the promise of his head–turning Danish troll drama “Border” (2018). This one…
- DVD $29.95
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
- A nail–biter of the first order that vividly depicts the actions of a group of young climate activists who come together for a 'meaningful' act…
- DVD $29.95
- Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- A cracker of a French drama that teeters on the edge of a thriller throughout because it’s all about the pressure cooker that is modern life.…
- DVD $29.95
- Corpus Christi (2019)
- A devastating, gripping drama based on the true story of a charismatic ex–convict who is mistaken to be a priest in a devout Polish village, a…
- DVD $29.95
- Monos (2019)
- A dark contemporary fable inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in a remote and mountainous region of Columbia, where a group of teenage…
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- Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes) (2019)
- A superb psychological thriller set in rural France that uncovers a twisted web of deceit concerning five people who are all linked to the…
- DVD $29.95
- Parasite (2019)
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
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- Dogman (2018)
- The director of GOMORRAH and TALE OF TALES expertly helms this gripping urban Italian crime noir about a mild mannered and diminutive dog groomer who…
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- Upgrade (2018)
- Futuristic body horror about a man who "upgrades" his body using an AI implant called STEM after his wife is murdered – the kicker of the…
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- Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
- A superbly written dramatic thriller from the director of NIGHTCRAWLER set within the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. Denzel…
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- A Cure for Wellness (2016)
- An ambitious Manhattan stockbroker is blackmailed to retrieve a company boardmember from a wellness spa in the Swiss Alps
in this visually stunning…
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- Hell or High Water (2016)
- An exceptional ten–gallon thriller in which a divorced father and his ex–con older brother resort to a desperate but righteous scheme in…
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- Gone Girl (2014)
- David Fincher's film version of the bestseller by Gillian Flynn in which a man reports that his wife has gone missing. Under pressure from the police…
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- Happy Valley (TV Series) (2014-2023)
- Another riveting top–shelf British police drama hot on the heels of BROADCHURCH. Sarah Lancashire stars as a Yorkshire sergeant who suspects a…
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- House of Cards - Season 2 (TV Series, US) (2014)
- Further episodes in the shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman…
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$15 $11.25
- Fall, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (2013)
- A dark exemplar of the current wave of female–driven crime dramas, with former X–FILES stalwart Gillian Anderson bringing a steely edge…
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- House of Cards - Season 1 (TV Series, US) (2013)
- A deep, shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman manipulating his way…
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$15 $11.25
- Locke (2013)
- Tom Hardy plays a family man plunged into crisis and armed only with his mobile telephone in this brilliant, one–man chamber piece set entirely…
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- Line of Duty (TV Series) (2012)
- Outstanding new British policier deals with corruption and department politics within a special unit whose record crime figures don't quite add up.…
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- Bridge, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2011)
- The Scandi–crime wave continues with this steely Danish–Swedish murder mystery, centred on the discovery of a body straddling the…
- DVD $99.95
- Homeland - Season 1 (TV Series) (2011)
- Anchored by Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile performance, this outstanding surveillance thriller centres on the return of an Iraq war hero…
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$15 $11.25
- Sleepless Night (2011)
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…
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$15 $11.25
- Balibo (2009)
- Searing political thriller based on the death of five Australian–based journalists (one, a Kiwi) who, upon covering the occupation of East…
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- Breaking Bad - Complete Boxset (TV Series) (2008-2013)
- Boxed set edition of AMC's heavy–hitting TV series, about a high school chemistry teacher (Cranston) who turns to a life of drug–dealing…
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- Eastern Promises (2007)
- A muscular, satisfying thriller set in the underworld of the Russian mafia in London, this reteams the director and star of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE,…
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- Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
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- Proposition, The (2005)
- Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
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$24.95 $18.70
- Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
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- In My Father's Den (2004)
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…
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$24.95 $18.70
- Wire, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Third season of this cracking HBO crime drama set in the seedy underbelly of the Baltimore crime scene.
This season the Baltimore mayor is…
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$20 $15
- Wire, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Much of the cast of the first season of this phenomenal HBO crime drama return for another complex delve into the Baltimore crime scene.
This time…
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- Intacto (2001)
- A finely devised Spanish thriller, in which particularly obsessed gamblers contest their 'Luck' in various absurd, dangerous and creepy…
- DVD $19.95
- Prime Suspect (TV Series) (1991-2003)
- Helen Mirren stars as DCI Tennison in seven award–winning (Emmy and BAFTA) mini–series from the pen of Lynda La Plante.
- DVD $54.95
- Misery (1990)
- You'll have a far from miserable experience watching novelist James Caan nursed back to health by his psychotic number one fan (Kathy Bates in an…
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- Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
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- House of Games (1987)
- Psychiatrist Lindsay Crouse is lured into the world of charming con–racketeer Joe Mantegna, where trust is a fragile concept. David Mamet…
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- Miss Marple (TV Series) [Joan Hickson] (1984-2002)
- Best–loved BBC series featuring Agatha Christie's 'Miss Marple', played definitively by the great Joan Hickson. Set in the sleepy, yet…
- DVD $29.95
- Godfather Part 2, The (1974)
- The Corleone saga continues with the same passion and exacting standards, it both broadens the scope and bolsters the stature of the original. Hailed…
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- Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971)
- After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
- DVD $19.95
- Danger Diabolik (1968)
- Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
- Birds, The (1963)
- Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
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- North by Northwest (1959)
- Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
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$24.95 $18.70
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
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