Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 727 Films to Buy & Rent
Mr. Rice's Secret (2000)
- Dir. Nicholas Kendall
Feat. David Bowie
- David Bowie is the 400–yr old ‘friend’ of a terminally ill boy who is directed into a magical adventure in this British–Canadian…
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance
- A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles
- Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Pledge, The (2000)
- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren…
- Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson.
As…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)
- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke
- The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
Takedown (2000)
- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Tom Berenger
- This telemovie depiction of infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, who went on the run in the 1990s, is less flashy than expected, with some…
Traffic (2000)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones…
- A masterful, suitably complex address of the ‘drug problem’ and how it enslaves consumers, dealers, policy–makers and law–enforcers…
When The Sky Falls (2000)
- Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Joan Allen, Pete Postlethwaite, Patrick Bergin
- A gritty suspense with Joan Allen portraying Irish journalist Vernoica Guerin who risked her life to take down Dublin's criminal underworld and bring…