Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)
- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke
- The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Sight, The (2000)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Honor Blackman, Kevin Tighe
- Reasonably crafted TV suspenser, has McCarthy playing an American architect on the trail of vicious serial–killer in London, with only his…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
Skulls, The (2000)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Craig T. Nelson
- In the bowels of an Ivy League Campus, is an elite, secret society that entices young men with luxury trappings and primes them for important…
Stickmen (2000)
- Dir. Hamish Rothwell
Feat. Robbie Magasiva, Scott Wills, Simone Kessell…
- A crowd–pleasing and assured sports–fetish movie, this doesn't shy from being dubbed 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Pool Cues', with its…
Tailor of Panama, The (2000)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis…
- Sly, cynical little spy–thriller, unfolds with a morally–dubious UK spy Pierce Brosnan stitching together a big–score in Panama by…
Takedown (2000)
- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Tom Berenger
- This telemovie depiction of infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, who went on the run in the 1990s, is less flashy than expected, with some…
Tell Me Something (2000)
- Dir. Chang Yoon-Hyung
Feat. Han Suk-gyu, Shim Eun-ha
- A fine slice of Korean “giallo”, this is detective pulp of the lacquered–black, rain–drenched variety, with perverse/macabre…
Traffic (2000)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones…
- A masterful, suitably complex address of the ‘drug problem’ and how it enslaves consumers, dealers, policy–makers and law–enforcers…
Turbo (TV Series) (2000-2001)
- Feat. Roberto Farnesi
- Addictive mystery series with the canine detective Turbo tracking villains against the sun–drenched vistas of Tuscany.