Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Serial Killers: 101 Films to Buy & Rent
- Roman De Gare (Crossed Tracks) (2007)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant
- Playfully pulpy French thriller from veteran director Claude Lelouch (A MAN AND A WOMAN) depicts the intersecting lives of two strangers oddly…
- Zodiac (2007)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards…
- Intense, painstaking thriller from the dir. of SEVEN magnifies San Francisco's unsolved ‘Zodiac’ killings with obsessive compulsion and…
- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
- Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Whitney Able
- Above–average slasher flick following a group of Texan teens who invite the unobtainable 'hot girl' at their school to a remote weekend…
- Blood Trails (2006)
- Dir. Robert Krause
Feat. Rebecca R. Palmer, Ben Price, Tom Frederic
- Low budget horror sees a cyclist woman and her boyfriend pursued by a psycotic fellow rider through the wilderness. This is an effective little…
- Lonely Hearts (2006)
- Dir. Todd Robinson
Feat. John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto…
- The true tale of 1940s “lonely hearts killers”, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez who would lure war widows through personal ads and…
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (2006)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw…
- Lush, faithful adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s 1985 novel, with Ben Whishaw as Jean–Baptiste Grenouille, the gifted ‘nose’ turned…
- See No Evil - The Story of the Moors Murders (2006)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
- Well–made, sensitive teledrama that depicts in grim detail the story of the notorious "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who…
- Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
- Suspect Zero (2004)
- Dir. E. Elias Merhige
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Aaron Eckhart, Carrie-Anne Moss
- A foreboding blood hunt in the stylish tradition of SEVEN, with serial–killer Kingsley and FBI–man Eckhart circling each other in a fog…
- Taking Lives (2004)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland…
- Expert FBI 'profiler' Jolie is recruited onto a case in deepest Canada involving a serial killer who murders blonde–haired men then assumes…