Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Hostages & Terrorism: 19 films to Buy on DVD
- Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
- Northern Ireland's troubled past is tackled in a contemporary spirit of "truth and reconciliation" in this fictional drama in which James Nesbitt…
- DVD
$34.95 $19.95
- Restraint (2008)
- 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…
- DVD $29.95
- Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007)
- Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
- DVD
$29.95 $14.95
- 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…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Clearing, The (2004)
- An unusually flavoured and structured kidnapping thriller, in which wealthy entrepeneur Redford is abducted by a polite, former–employee…
- DVD $19.95
- Edukators, The (The Educators) (2004)
- A compulsive slice of German youth angst about rebels struggling with their cause, this arthouse smash–hit concerns a trio of youthful…
- DVD
$24.95 $19.95
- Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)
- John Malkovich debuts as a director with this slow–burn police thriller played out in the humid atmosphere of an unamed South American…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- Con Air (1997)
- The prison genre meets the airborne thriller(!) but invigorated no end by super–slick production and direction and the ever–dependable…
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$20 $15
- Black Sunday (1977)
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…