Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
Sin Nombre (Without Name) (2008)
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores
- Honduran teenagers brave Mexican gangs and border patrols as they attempt to illegally emigrate to the US in this superbly mounted,…
Splinter (2008)
- Dir. Toby Wilkins
Feat. Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner
- Lean sci–fi thriller in which a couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station by a deadly parasite intent on making their bodies…
Spooks - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Gemma Jones, Richard Armitage
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Seven: 8…
Square, The (2008)
- Dir. Nash Edgerton
Feat. David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
- Hard–and–fast noir with an Aussie twang, hatched from a plot to make off with a mobster’s stash of cash, and the luckless turn of…
Strangers, The (2008)
- Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman
- A home invasion horror orcestrated with rare tension and restraint, concerning a couple’s night of terror at the hands of three masked…
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…
Surveillance (2008)
- Dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Feat. Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James…
- Divisive thriller following two FBI agents who must piece together three very different eyewitness accounts of a murder in a small town, in order to…
Suspension (2008)
- Dir. Ethan Shaftel
Feat. Scott Cordes, Annie Tedesco, Caroline Vinciguerra
- Independent sci–fi thriller in the TWILIGHT ZONE mold, concerning a man who loses his wife and son in a car accident, and subsequently…
Tender Hook, The (2008)
- Dir. Jonathan Ogilvie
Feat. Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Matthew Le Nevez…
- Noted for its production design and cinematography, this film captures the visual mood of 1920s Sydney to enfold a melodrama of corruption,…
Tenderness (2008)
- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Jon Foster
- Indie thriller sees Russell Crowe play a semi–retired detective who becomes obsessed with a teenage murderer recently freed from prison, who he…