Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Unknown Woman, The (La Sconosciuta) (2006)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini
- Skillful Hitchcockian suspense hailed as a return to form for the director of CINEMA PARADISO, following a troubled Ukrainian immigrant in Italy who…
Vengeance (Phairii phinaat paa mawrana) (2006)
- Dir. Preaw Sirisuwan
- Fast–paced jungle fantasy horror has a young man and his friends in pursuit of an escaped prisoner inside a fantastical forest populated by…
Wilderness (2006)
- Dir. Michael J. Bassett
Feat. Sean Pertwee, Alex Reid, Toby Kebbell
- High–concept survival horror where a group of young delinquents are sent to a remote island for a 'character–building' exercise, only to…
Wire, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison…
- Fourth season of the celebrated crime drama set on the mean back streets of Baltimore.
This time around the focus is on a group of teenage…
Wrong Man, The (Lucky Number Slevin) (2006)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu…
- A crazily convoluted thriller with a powerhouse cast, this is heavy on slick violence and self–aware pop–gun dialogue, with levels of…
13 Tzameti (2005)
- Dir. Géla Babluani
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Georges Babluani
- Coolly disturbing noir thriller tracks the fate of a struggling immigrant labourer who intercepts a package with instructions that lead him into a…
24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
A History of Violence (2005)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris…
- An incisive take on the noir thriller from celebrated horror auteur David Cronenberg (EXISTENZ et al), in which a smalltown family man (Mortensen) is…
Archangel (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova
- Biting thriller based on the Robert Harris novel, with Daniel Craig taking on the role of an academic thrust into darkest post–war Russia to…
Asylum (2005)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland…
- Tense psychological thriller from the dir. of YOUNG ADAM that owes plenty to the master Hitch, with Natasha Richardson in fine form as a bored…