Subgenre Sampler
Gangsters: 360 Films to Buy & Rent
Enter the Phoenix (2004)
- Dir. Stephen Fung
Feat. Daniel Wu, Karen Mok, Nicholas Tse…
- The disowned gay son of a dying triad leader must inherit control of an organised crime family in this typically scattershot Hong Kong comedy…
Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo
- Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
One Night in Mongkok (Wong gok hak yau) (2004)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung
- A bespectacled 'Mainland' Chinese man is recruited for the assassination of a triad boss in the lusciously seedy Hong Kong district of Mongkok, but…
Redemption (2004)
- Dir. Vondie Curtis Hall
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, C.C.H. Pounder
- Above–average telemovie biopic about Stan 'Tookie' Williams (Foxx), founder of the notorious street gang, 'The Crips', who after years of…
Sucker Free City (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Ken Leung, Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie
- Originally a pilot, Spike Lee’s little–known excursion into the realm of Cable TV is an ethnically diverse gang drama converging black,…
American Cousins (2003)
- Dir. Don Coutts
Feat. Dan Hedaya, Shirley Henderson
- Appealingly down–to–earth Glaswegian gangster comedy about a sweet–natured café worker who ends up entangled with the Ukrainian…
Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
Dogville (2003)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall…
- This fierce parable of hypocrisy, exploitation and revenge set on a “soundstage” version of 1930s America is a brilliant conception of dir. Lars…
Gettin' Square (2003)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Gary Sweet…
- A breezy crime black comedy, set around the good intentions and criminal bungling of several smalltimers in Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
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Ginji The Slasher (2003)
- Dir. Takeshi Miyasaka
Feat. Riki Takeuchi
- Low profile suspenser, set around a recalcitrant swordsman who goes on the rampage in post–WW2 Japan and 50 years later is released to start…