Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo
- Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo spruce up the 1968 romantic thriller as respective millionaire art thief and insurance investigator magnetised against…
True Crime (1999)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, James Woods
- Implausible but fun, this is Clint Eastwood relaxing his usually rigorous standards with a hokey thriller–by–numbers stocked with…
Two Hands (1999)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, Steve LaMarquand
- Mobster Bryan Brown finds work for Heath Ledger's idle hands, who fumbles the ball and finds himself deep in the crapper…
Overcoming the…
Vice, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Caroline Catz, Marc Warren, Ken Scott
- Edgy Bafta Award Winning TV detective drama series focusing on the London Metro Squad examining crime and unsolved murder in the sex industry.
Waiting Time, The (1999)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. John Thaw, Zara Turner
- Cracking cat–and–mouse telemovie, in which a solicitor's clerk investigating why an otherwise levelheaded intelligence officer has…
8mm (1998)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini…
- First Hollywood effort at generating thrills from the dubious (and probably mythical) subculture of 'snuff movies', where actors are deliberately…
A Simple Plan (1998)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda
- A simple premise – three smalltown guys stumble across $4,000,000 in an undiscovered plane–crash and decide to keep it – out of…
Apt Pupil (1998)
- Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro
- Creepy version of the Stephen King novella uses its pungent story–hook about a teenager discovering and blackmailing an ex–Nazi living in…
Body Count (1998)
- Dir. Robert Patton-Spruill
Feat. David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, John Leguizamo…
- Derivative thriller following a group of thieves coping with the aftermath of a botched museum heist. RESERVOIR DOGS with a B–list cast, but…
Brown's Requiem (1998)
- Dir. Jason Freeland
Feat. Michael Rooker, Selma Blair, Kevin Corrigan
- Initially promising requiem for the sacred conventions of classic film noir, with an excellent Michael Rooker moonlighting as a P.I. and getting a…