Subgenre Sampler
      Suspense/Crime > Drama: 729 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Wire in the Blood (TV Series) (2002)
 
- Feat. Robson Green, Hermione Norris, Simone Lahbib
 
- Terrific tough–as–nails UK detective show focused on a compassionate clinical psychologist (Green) and an ambitious Detective Inspector…
 
Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
 
- Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…
 
- Tough, patient HBO TV policier (from David Simon, creator of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) follows the Baltimore drug scene from both the police and…
 
Without a Trace (TV Series) (2002) 
- Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
 
- Television crime drama from the Jerry Bruckheimer stable (see also CSI) that traces the investigations of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad, led by the…
 
Buffalo Soldiers (2001) 
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris… 
- Broadly subversive drama set among the bored US Army Corp guarding West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Chiefly tracks…
 
Four Days (2001)
 
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers… 
- This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
 
Gosford Park (2001)
 
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith… 
- A handsome recital of Agatha Christie–style whodunnit and ‘upstairs–downstairs’ class–drama set in the confines of an English…
 
In the Bedroom (2001)
 
- Dir. Todd Field
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl… 
- Both deservingly nominated for Oscars, Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson hardly miss a beat as the middle–aged couple forced to deal with the…
 
Invisible Circus, The (2001) 
- Dir. Adam Brooks
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston… 
- Even–toned, detached political thriller that follows the disappearance of free–spirit Cameron Diaz in the late 1960s and the search by…
 
Love the Hard Way (2001) 
- Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier 
- Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
 
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
 
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert 
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…