Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Veronica Guerin (2003)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker
- Playing an Irish journalist determined to uncover the drug–networks of Ireland, Blanchett gives a rounded portrait of a headstrong…
Visitors (2003)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Ray Barrett, Susannah York
- Circumnavigating the globe in her yacht, Radha Mitchell gets becalmed in the tropics and is 'visited' by persons who may be ghosts, hallucinations or…
Who Killed Bambi? (Qui a tué Bambi?) (2003)
- Dir. Gilles Marchand
Feat. Laurent Lucas, Catherine Jacob, Sophie Quinton
- French thriller set in an eerie hospital where people are mysteriously disappearing, following a nursing student and a doctor as they try to catch…
Wire, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…
- Much of the cast of the first season of this phenomenal HBO crime drama return for another complex delve into the Baltimore crime scene.
This time…
Wrong Turn (2003)
- Dir. Rob Schmidt
Feat. Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto
- A carload of photogenic youths take a wrong turn into the nightmare of a West Virginia inhabited by murderous mutants.
With enough efficient…
Young Adam (2003)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
- Evocatively set amid the grimy canal barges of post–WW2 Scotland, this follows the shady fortunes of a failed writer (McGregor), whose…
Zero Day (2003)
- Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson
- A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
'R Xmas (2002)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Lillo Brancato Jr., Drea De Matteo, Ice-T
- Familiar territory tinged with originality from bad boy dir. Ferrara, examining the unusual Christmas crises of a drug–dealing Latino couple in…
24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
9 Dead Gay Guys (Nine Dead Gay Guys) (2002)
- Dir. Lab Ky Mo
Feat. Glen Mulhern, Brendan Mackey, Steven Berkoff…
- Irreverent, often damned funny, crime comedy in which two lads stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful…