Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Foolproof (2003)
- Dir. William Phillips
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet
- A slick if stereotypical heist thriller, in which a group of brainy thieves plan 'foolproof' heists, but find their ambitions go awry when their next…
For Good (2003)
- Dir. Stuart McKenzie
Feat. Michelle Langstone, Timothy Balme, Miranda Harcourt…
- Deserving of a wider audience, this assured and well–focused NZ feature debut belies its limited budget with a pertinent crime story executed…
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…
Good Morning, Night (2003)
- Dir. Marco Bellocchio
- A dramatisation of events surrounding the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 by The Red Brigades, as seen through the…
I Inside, The (2003)
- Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo…
- Head–scratching psychological thriller centred on an amnesiac (Phillippe) who cannot recall the last two years of his life and begins to travel…
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers…
- Reteaming dir. Mike Hodges with star Clive Owen for a follow–up to the acclaimed CROUPIER, this takes more of a cue from the director’s…
I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) (2003)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia…
- Atmospheric thriller from dir. Gabriele Salvatores that deftly conveys a foreboding childhood experience during a long, hot summer in the country,…
Identity (2003)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet…
- File this teasing, shamelessly manipulative thriller under “guilty pleasure” for its gimmick premise can either be enjoyed as a cheeky…
Imagining Argentina (2003)
- Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades…
- A controversial adaptation of Lawrence Thornton's award–winning novel, set in the Argentine dictatorship of the mid–1970s.
Thompson is…
In the Cut (2003)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- An uncomfortable, darkly ‘feminist’ thriller for which Meg Ryan deflowers her star persona, playing a troubled forty–something who…