Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 730 Films to Buy & Rent
So Close To Paradise (Biandan, guniang) (1998)
- Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Feat. Wang Tong, Shi Yu, Guo Tao
- Chinese film set in the city of Wuhan before it was a household name, where two young migrant workers become embroiled in the city's criminal…
Such a Long Journey (1998)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah
- Set in the turbulent India of 1971, just prior to the war with Pakistan, this artfully fashioned drama centres on the political and personal crises…
Blackout, The (1997)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer
- Dir. Abel Ferrara spills more lurid behaviour all over the screen just like he did in BAD LIEUTENANT. Matthew Modine does the honours for this spin…
Blood and Wine (1997)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Jennifer Lopez…
- Jack Nicholson dusts off his cynical, scowling persona of the 70s, as a desperate, philandering Florida wine merchant who enlists Michael Caine for a…
Blood Oranges, The (1997)
- Dir. Philip Haas
Feat. Charles Dance, Sheryl Lee, Colin Lane…
- An obscure indie–psychodrama from the dir. of MUSIC OF CHANCE and ANGELS AND INSECTS, with Charles Dance and Sheryl Lee as a…
Character (1997)
- Dir. Mike van Diem
Feat. Fedja Van Huet
- A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen…
- Riveting, true–life tale of an FBI agent's perilous infiltration of the New York Mafia in the 70s. A knife–edge dramatic tension is…
Duggan (TV Series) (Death in Paradise, Sins of the Fathers) (1997-1998)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. John Bach
- Detective inspector John Bach heads up these made–for–TV policiers as a recluse drawn into a murder cases near his Marlborough Sounds…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg…
- Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…