Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Insomnia (1997)
- Dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard
- An edgy, ingeniously plotted psychological thriller about an amoral Swedish detective whose murder investigation in Northern Norway (where the sun…
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
- Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
- Dir. Leslie Greif
Feat. Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger…
- A strong ensemble cast enliven this archetypal 90's crime film set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, making up the mostly unsavoury characters who complicate the…
Kiss or Kill (1997)
- Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Matt Day
- Many critics confounded our suspicions that this was going to be yet another vapid, pretentious, cheap–shot road–movie that exploits the…
Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd
- Raincoated detective Morgan Freeman and bottle–brunetted Ashley Judd seek the psychotic 'Casanova', who kidnaps beautiful woman for his…
L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey…
- Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg…
- Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…
Live Flesh (1997)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal
- Five aggrieved characters get wrapped in a sticky web of consequence after a fateful incident leaves one paralysed and another in jail.
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Locusts, The (1997)
- Dir. John Patrick Kelley
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kate Capshaw, Ashley Judd
- Tawdry, mostly shallow slice of Southern 'Faulkner–esque' pulp has Vince Vaughn (SWINGERS) drifting into a hot spot of small–town trouble…