Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3174 Films to Buy & Rent
Lakeview Terrace (2008)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
- Creepy suburban thriller focused on obsessive cop Abel Turner (Jackson) who will stop at nothing to rid his 'perfect' neighbourhood of an interracial…
Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, The (2008)
- Dir. Michael James Rowland
Feat. Adrian Dunbar, Ciaran McMenamin, Don Hany…
- Potent docu–drama revealing the true story of the infamous Irish convict Alexander Pearce during the days leading up to his execution at the…
Lazarus Project, The (2008)
- Dir. John Glenn
Feat. Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Linda Cardellini
- Surreal thriller concerning a prisoner on death row (Walker), who after his lethal injection inexplicably wakes up in a mental institution where he…
Life on Mars (US TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Harvey Keitel, Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli…
- Polarizing remake of the British sci–fi success shares an identical premise – namely cop hit by car in present wakes up in 1973 –…
Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
- Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
Mesrine (Killer Instinct, Public Enemy Number 1) (2008)
- Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Cecile De France, Gerard Depardieu…
- Effective, if at times highly sensationalised biopic of career criminal Jacques Mesrine – France’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ throughout the 1960s and…
Midnight Meat Train, The (2008)
- Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields…
- Twisted horror based on cult–horror writer Clive Barker's 'Books Of Blood' sees a photographer (Cooper) grow obsessed with a butcher (Jones)…
Mirrors (2008)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Sketchy remake of the Korean horror 'Geoul Sokeuro', starring Kiefer Sutherland as an ousted ex–cop turned security officer who begins to see…
MR 73 (The Last Deadly Mission) (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Philippe Nahon
- Rock solid policier stars Daniel Auteuil as a drunken, burnt–out cop whose shot at redemption comes in the form of a woman requiring protection…
Murdoch Mysteries (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris…
- An under–appreciated, unique historical crime series set in Victorian Toronto in which an unorthodox young detective, William Murdoch, uses…