Subgenre Sampler
      Suspense/Crime > Drama: 729 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
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…
 
Where the Money Is (2000) 
- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney 
- A still–charismatic Paul Newman is an aged bank–robber esconsed in a nursing home after suffering a stroke, though his nurse Linda…
 
Brokedown Palace (1999) 
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman 
- OE–gone–awry flick has an impetuous Claire Danes and demure Kate Beckinsale land in major difficulties during their Thai holiday after…
 
Channeling Baby (1999) 
- Dir. Christine Parker
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Kevin Smith 
- 'First sight' romance between a blind pacifist and a shell–shocked soldier in the 70s ended in heartbreak after the tragic 'disappearance' of…
 
Civil Action, A (1999)
 
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy… 
- Fact–based account of a protracted courtroom duel between two corporations and small–town folk, whose children have been affected by…
 
Cruel Intentions (1999) 
- Dir. Roger Kumble
Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon 
- Spoiled and randy step–siblings Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe raise the amorality stakes by betting that he can deflower the prim…
 
I Want You (1999) 
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola 
- Determinedly stylish mystery set in a British seaside town explores various permutations of unrequited love and sexual frustration in drawing up to…
 
Insider, The (1999)
 
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer… 
- A brooding masterpiece from dir. Mann (HEAT), who finally wrestles down a topic of sufficient weight to justify the peerless brilliance of his…
 
Life Before This, The (1999) 
- Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Joe Pantoliano… 
- Based loosely on a real–life shootout in Toronto, this ambitious drama postulates life as a mosaic of interconnected actions, where often…