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      Suspense/Crime > Foreign Cinema: 473 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Fred Vargas Collection (TV Series) (2008-2010) 
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Helene Fillieres, Charlotte Rampling 
- Four excellent French TV adaptations of crime fiction novelist Fred Vargas' popular policiers, with her famous protagonist, Detective Adamsberg, a…
 
Go Fast (2008) 
- Dir. Olivier Van Hoofstadt
Feat. Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet 
- An exciting, if standard issue Gallic policier set around the high–stakes world of narcotics, where an Arab police officer goes undercover to…
 
Jerusalema (2008) 
- Dir. Ralph Ziman
Feat. Daniel Buckland, Robert Hobbs 
- A punchy, gun–toting gangland epic following the rise to two Soweto teenagers seduced by crime and violence in South Africa.
Although…
 
Lady Cop and Papa Crook (Daai Sau cha Ji Neui) (2008) 
- Dir. Siu Fai Mak, Felix Chong
Feat. Eason Chang, Sammi Cheng, Tak-bun Wong… 
- An oil kingpin (Chang) finds himself in alliance with a cop (Cheng) when his son is kidnapped, resulting in an uneasy relationship between the law…
 
Mesrine (Killer Instinct, Public Enemy Number 1) (2008) 
- Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Cecile De France, Gerard Depardieu… 
- Effective, if at times highly sensationalised biopic of career criminal Jacques Mesrine – France’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ throughout the 1960s and…
 
MR 73 (The Last Deadly Mission) (2008)
 
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Philippe Nahon 
- Rock solid policier stars Daniel Auteuil as a drunken, burnt–out cop whose shot at redemption comes in the form of a woman requiring protection…
 
North Face (Nordwand) (2008)
 
- Dir. Philipp Stölzl
Feat. Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas 
- Exceptionally vivid, nerve–wracking mountaineering thriller in which two novice climbers attempt to be the first to scale the treacherous north…
 
Protectors, The (TV Series) (2008)
 
- Feat. Cecilie Stenspil, Søren Vejby, André Babikian
 
- Stellar Danish production centred on a group of professional bodyguards assigned to protect VIPs, politicians, and heads of state out of Copenhagen.…
 
Revanche (2008)
 
- Dir. Gotz Spielmann
Feat. Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust 
- A botched bank robbery resulting in the death of a prostitute compels an embittered ex–con to contemplate revenge in this steely, impressive…
 
Sin Nombre (Without Name) (2008)
 
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores 
- Honduran teenagers brave Mexican gangs and border patrols as they attempt to illegally emigrate to the US in this superbly mounted,…