Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
Adrift (Open Water 2) (2006)
- Dir. Hans Horn
Feat. Susan May Pratt
- Respectably–suspenseful dive back into the premise of OPEN WATER, this has a handful of squabbling twenty–something American friends on a…
Alibi, The (Lies & Alibis) (2006)
- Dir. Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, James Marsden…
- Nicely–off kilter farce stars Steve Coogan as a 'reformed' con–artist running an 'alibi providing service' for adulterous spouses to help…
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
- Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Whitney Able
- Above–average slasher flick following a group of Texan teens who invite the unobtainable 'hot girl' at their school to a remote weekend…
Alpha Dog (2006)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, Sharon Stone…
- The versatile Emile Hirsch plays a rich, white, and very teenage drug dealer whose charmed existence is threatened when a kidnapping–murder…
Anna Pihl (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Feat. Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
- Praised for its realism, this Danish police drama centres around a Copenhagen policewoman also having to deal with solo parenthood.
Backwoods, The (Bosque de sombras) (2006)
- Dir. Koldo Serra
Feat. Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen
- Latin slice of backwoods gothic is a classy revenge film, as things go from bad to worse for hunting buddy Brits Gary Oldman and Paddy Consadine when…
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling…
- A belated and troublesome sequel to the 1992 sex'n'suspense hit which made Sharon Stone famous, has the psychopathic blonde novelist return, now in…
Big Nothing (2006)
- Dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Feat. Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Natascha McElhone…
- Violent farce with dead–beat Schwimmer falling in with scam–artist Pegg in a bizarre blackmail scheme that goes predictably –and…
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
- A Jewish singer goes deep undercover for the Dutch resistance in this splashy, larger–than–life WWII yarn set in Nazi–occupied…
Black Dahlia, The (2006)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank…
- Seething with atmosphere, this noir crime–drama (based on James Ellroy's novel) presents a complicated case of the unsolved Hollywood murder of…