Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
- Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Pusher II (With Blood on my Hands) (2004)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen
- Number two in the Danish thriller PUSHER series tracks a muddled Copenhagen thug fresh from prison who faces the scorn of his gangster father, past…
Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (2004)
- Dir. Cedric Kahn
Feat. Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet
- A married couple bicker in a holiday traffic–jam, fueled by the husband's drunken irritability and his wife's haughty disregard, leading them…
Saint Ange (Sanatorium) (2004)
- Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Virginie Ledoyen, Katriona MacColl, Lou Doillon
- A young woman (Ledoyen) journeys into the remotes of the French Alps to help clean up an abandoned orphanage, but soon begins to notice strange…
Secret Window (2004)
- Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton…
- Coming off the back of a messy divorce, novelist Depp moves to an isolated lakeside house where he must contend with accusations of plagarism by an…
Sex Traffic (Mini-Series) (2004)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. John Simm, Wendy Crewson, Maury Chaykin
- Harrowing drama of Britain’s illegal sex trade, with John Simm leading the good fight against an international prostitution ring. The compelling…
She's Gone (2004)
- Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Ray Winstone, Lindsey Coulson, Gary Lucy…
- Ray Winstone is typically compelling as the father of a young British woman who goes missing in Turkey. Travelling to the Middle East, he quests to…
Spartan (2004)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy…
- An expert 'special ops' agent (Kilmer) is sucked headfirst into a wild, yet plausible conspiracy involving the kidnapping of the US president's…
Spooked (2004)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Cliff Curtis, John Leigh, Christopher Hobbs…
- An ambitious though uneven thriller based on the true–life NZ case of a computer expert who ended up with disc–fulls of incriminating…
Spooks - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season Three: 10…