Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Trapped (TV Series) (2015)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
- Icelandic television mystery series created by Baltasar Kormákur (JAR CITY, EVEREST) that follows a chief of police in a remote town who tries to…
True Detective - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams…
- Widely regarded as a disappointing second season of the HBO policier with a streak of "strained seriousness" running through its tale of a bizarre…
True New Zealand Crime Stories (How to Murder Your Wife; Monster of Mangatiti; Venus and Mars; Bloodlines; Siege) (2015)
- Dir. Riccardo Pellizzeri, John Laing, Peter Burger
Feat. Mark Mitchinson, Craig Hall, Sara Wiseman…
- How to Murder Your Wife: A black comedy based on the true story of Alfred Benning's outlandish attempts to murder his overbearing wife in 1977.…
Unforgotten (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Bernard Hill…
- Haunting crime drama about a delicate investigation that begins when the bones of a young man are found under the footings of a demolished house 39…
Victoria (2015)
- Dir. Sebastian Schipper
Feat. Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Max Mauff
- Dazzling, propulsive thriller shot entirely in one continuous 134 minute take through multiple locations in the city of Berlin has a Spanish woman's…
Wayward Pines (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Shannyn Sossamon…
- Matt Dillon stars as a Secret Service agent who journeys to the small town of Wayward Pines in search of two federal agents who have disappeared.
99 Homes (2014)
- Dir. Ramin Bahrani
Feat. Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern…
- Andrew Garfield turns in a muscular performance as a recently unemployed single father who struggles to regain his family home by working for the…
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
- Dir. Anton Corbijn
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe…
- Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German spy in this taut John le Carré thriller about a mysterious Chechen immigrant with possible terrorist ties.
Absent One, The (2014)
- Dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
Feat. Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk
- Diverting second entry in the Department Q series, following on from THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES. This time Mørck and Assad are investigating the…
Agatha Raisin (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Ashley Jensen, Katy Wix, Mathew Horne…
- The Cotswolds–based PR guru turned amateur sleuth returns for a series of comedic murder–mysteries based on the books by M.C. Beaton.…