Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini…
- The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
Mary Higgins Clark - Collection One (All Around Town, Haven't We Met Before?, Loves Music Loves to Dance) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan
- Two telemovie thrillers from the prolific pen of Mary Higgins Clark which generally revolve around a female protagonist who must resolve a difficult…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Messiah (TV Series) (2001-2005)
- Feat. Ken Stott, Frances Grey, Michelle Forbes
- Grisly BBC serial in the tradition of PRIME SUSPECT and CRACKER shadows the case solving of a partially–deaf detective with a disturbed nose…
Monkey's Mask, The (2001)
- Dir. Samantha Lang
Feat. Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis
- Steamy, stylish thriller has P.I. Susie Porter tracking down the killer of a nymphomaniac teenage girl, whose explicit poems are a major clue.…
Mortal Transfer (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Miki Manojlovic, Helene de Fougerolles…
- Freudian psycho–thriller with analyst Anglade finding himself a little too attracted to masochistic patient de Fougerolles. Delirious visuals…
Mr. In-Between (The Killing Kind) (2001)
- Dir. Paul Sarossy
Feat. Andrew Howard, Geraldine O’Rawe, Andrew Tiernan
- Intense British crime drama adapted from the debut novel of Neil Cross (LUTHER). Andrew Howard plays a tough hitman who is ultimately forced to save…
Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux
- Dir. David Lynch returns to the defiantly enigmatic mode of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Lost Highway’ with an absurdist Tinseltown satire that probably…
Murder In Mind (TV Series) (2001)
- Excellent star–studded series of self–contained stories on the theme of murder, generally centered around apparently 'normal people' who…
Murphy's Law (TV Series) (2001-2007)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Mark Benton, Claudia Harrison…
- BBC TV drama starring James Nesbitt as a tough talking, maverick Irish cop who moves to London and takes on the criminal underworld after his…