Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Sin Eater, The (The Order) (2003)
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Peter Weller
- Priest Heath Ledger investigates a series of mysterious deaths within the Catholic Church that lead him to the Vatican, and beyond, in this murky…
Singing Detective, The (2003)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam…
- A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
- Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Pauline Collins, Oliver Ford Davies, Kenneth Cranham
- An elderly husband and wife are the unlikely secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne…