Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Way of the Gun (2001)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis…
- A kidnap–chase down Mexico way, featuring “live–by–the–gun” crims Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillipe and abductee…
Wendigo (2001)
- Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan
- Elaborating on a renowned ‘urban legend’ with a refined script and a no–nonsense commitment to storytelling, this is a project fostered in…
When Strangers Appear (Shearer's Breakfast) (2001)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Barry Watson, Kevin Anderson…
- A piquant little thriller set at a lonely country rest–stop – Foxton standing in for Oregon – with dir. Reynold’s (HEAVEN, THE…
Yards, The (2001)
- Dir. James Gray
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron…
- Shot through with epic ambitions, this crime–drama, set amid the corruption of a New York subway–repair yards, boasts a compelling lead…
Along Came a Spider (2000)
- Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott, Monica Potter
- Morgan Freeman returns as the grizzled manhunter from KISS THE GIRLS, here investigating the mysterious kidnapping of a senator’s daughter.…
American Psycho (2000)
- Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto…
- Mercifully sanitised adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' controversial novel, that wallowed in the depraved mind/antics of a homicidal Wall Street…
Auggie Rose (2000)
- Dir. Matthew Tabak
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Anne Heche, Nancy Travis…
- Bearing witness to the death of an ex–convict triggers midlife anxiety for insurance agent Jeff Goldblum, who proceeds to assume his identity…
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
- Dir. Bill Eagles
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch
- An ultra–violent Scottish twist on THELMA AND LOUISE, with Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch leaving Glasgow in a shower of blood, and heading out…
Boiler Room (2000)
- Dir. Ben Younger
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel…
- Bullish morality–tale set in the stockmarket boom–world of 1990s America, where the hi–tech stock–bubble was hyped by…
Brother (2000)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps
- Dir. Kitano’s first US film fuses his touch for wincingly intense violence with a ironical, comic streak that plays off the dynamics of the…