Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Love is the Drug (Addcited to Her Love) (2006)
- Dir. Elliott Lester
Feat. John Patrick Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, D. J. Cotrona…
- A love triangle turns deadly in this potent immersion into the world of teenage sex and drug–taking. An unfortunate slide into melodrama in the…
Macbeth (2006)
- Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Sam Worthington, Steve Bastoni
- A black–lacquered contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth' set in the ganglands of Melbourne, with dir. Wright (ROMPER STOMPER)…
Miami Vice (2006)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li…
- A brooding reprise of the cult 80s cop TV series with uber–stylist Michael Mann (HEAT) ramping up the serious atmospherics in a prolonged…
Modern Love (2006)
- Dir. Alex Frayne
Feat. Mark Constable, Victoria Hill
- Slowly flickering rural gothic set in South Australia following a man's return to his childhood home and his subsequent descent into…
Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
- Dir. Michael Scott
Feat. Alan Arkin, Amy Madigan, Kelli Williams
- Adam Arkin’s plays the ubiquitously named killer John Smith, whose wives keep disappearing, though not if two inquisitive women can help it.…
New Street Law (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. John Hannah, Paul Freeman, John Thomson…
- Engrossing legal drama with Hannah and Freeman as heads of two law firms sharing the same premises. Plenty of ethical conundrums populate a tightly…
Night Listener, The (2006)
- Dir. Patrick Stettner
Feat. Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin…
- A restrained Robin Williams plays a radio host who becomes fixated with an autobiography of a boy supposedly dying of AIDS in this unconventional…
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy
- Authorities Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench go head–to–head in this psychological gambit between a pottery teacher engaged in an illicit…
Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry…
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
Outlaw (2006)
- Dir. Nick Love
Feat. Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Rupert Friend…
- Unpleasant slug–fest with Sean Bean establishing a posse of vigilantes to round up the 'lawless scum' pervading Britain.
Simplistic thriller…