Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
DreamCatcher (2002)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore…
- Four childhood friends, who share psychic powers and an annual appointment to go male–bonding in the Maine backwoods, are inadvertantly drawn…
El Bonaerense (2002)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
- An authentically macho tale about the notoriously clannish and corrupt police force of Buenos Aires (members are known as 'el Bonaerense') which…
Enough (2002)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis…
- As a battered housewife fighting back, Jennifer Lopez gives a reasonably appealing performance in a story that adds dashes of violence to the core…
Fear Dot Com (Fear.com) (2002)
- Dir. William Malone
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea, Natascha McElhone
- Incoherent horror flick that goes on–line with the plot of Japanese horror film RING, this will be most compared to the American remake of that…
Femme Fatale (2002)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
- Best viewed as a campy homage to the film noir genre, this snaky thriller revels in the multiple plot twists of its tale of diamond thieves and…
Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- Feat. Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
Gangs of New York (2002)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz…
- Dir. Martin Scorsese’s messy yet resonant epic based on a 19th century chapter that witnessed mass civil unrest in NYC is painted with the…
Good Thief, The (2002)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Nick Nolte, Ralph Fiennes
- This woozy, lightly stylised thriller finds Nick Nolte as the titular gambling thief looking to go into retirement by heisting expensive paintings…
Hard Word, The (2002)
- Dir. Scott Roberts
Feat. Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Damien Richardson…
- A lean comic thriller taking its attitude from LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, but given stubbled Aussie charm by leads Guy Pearce and Rachel…
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A la Folie pas du Tout) (2002)
- Dir. Laetitia Colombani
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan
- A slyly–structured tale of adultery which uses the ambiguous qualities of actress Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) to deliver some thrilling…