Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Perfect Strangers (2003)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck
- Thriller of possessive love, set effectively on the rugged coastline of New Zealand’s West Coast, that changes tack mid–way into blackly…
Planman, The (2003)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
- Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
Reckoning, The (2003)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Vincent Cassel…
- A sober minded recreation of plague–blasted England of the Middle Ages, with Bettany cowling–up as a monk on the run who falls in with a…
Recruit, The (2003)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Al Pacino, Colin Farrell
- CIA–trainer Al Pacino puts computer hacker Colin Farrell through the hoops to prepare him for the world of intelligence gathering and secret…
Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko…
- A surprise arthouse hit about a couple of teenage brothers who are taken on a mysterious trip by their estranged and rather surly father, with his…
Rick (2003)
- Dir. Curtiss Clayton
Feat. Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner…
- A faithful and somewhat underrated adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", updated into the modern office world, where a top executive…
Ripley's Game (2003)
- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey…
- Another episode in the life of Patricia Highsmith's amoral, talented manipulator Tom Ripley, here played with dry self–amusement by John…
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
- Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
Runaway Jury (2003)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman…
- It's back to court with John Grisham, in a well–cast, entertaining tale of gun–control issues, jury–manipulation, big business and…
S.W.A.T. (SWAT) (2003)
- Dir. Clark Johnson
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez…
- Competent, but hardly special updating of the 70s cop show (Special Weapons And Tactics), which mixes credible action assignments with personality…