Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3174 Films to Buy & Rent
Ill Manors (2012)
- Dir. Ben Drew
Feat. Riz Ahmed, Natalie Press, Ed Skrein…
- English rapper Plan B directs this multistory portrait of life in a London housing estate beset by drugs, gangsters, and sexual crime.
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012)
- Dir. Jeffrey Walker
Feat. Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen…
- Guy Pearce plays the whiskey–soaked private investigator of the Peter Temple novels whose troubling past resurfaces after the death of an…
Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
- Dir. Jeffrey Walker
Feat. Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen…
- Second Jack Irish film has the beleaguered private investigator on the trail of an old mates missing son, who may have his reasons for disappearing.
Killing Them Softly (2012)
- Dir. Andrew Dominik
Feat. Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn…
- Ex–pat Kiwi Andrew Dominik helms this sullen gangland thriller, about a professional enforcer (Pitt) hired to track down the amateur criminals…
Killing, The - Series 3 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2012)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- Final episodes in the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a third plot exploring a death linked to the global financial crisis…
King is Dead!, The (2012)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Dan Wyllie, Bojana Novakovic, Garry Waddell…
- Rolf de Heer directs this broad black comedy that mercilessly satirizes and plays upon the upwardly mobile's fear of the unruly working class. An…
Last Dragon Master, The (The Last Tycoon) (2012)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng
- Chow Yun–Fat lends his charismatic presence to this sumptuous gangster picture detailing the rise of a legendary Shanghai mobster at the turn…
Last Will (Nobel's Last Will) (2012)
- Dir. Peter Flinth
Feat. Malin Crepin, Bjorn Kellman, Leif Andree…
- Based on the novel by Liza Marklund, this brisk addition to the "Scandi–crime" canon has unfortunate journalist Annika Bengtzon witnessing a…
Letter, The (2012)
- Dir. Jay Anania
Feat. Winona Ryder, James Franco, Josh Hamilton
- Discordant effort by James Franco's NYU professor has Winona Ryder as a playwright suffering paranoid hallucinations as she attempts to stage a new…
Lilyhammer (2012)
- Feat. Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa Aurvaag
- Norwegian–American crime drama about a former New York mobster who goes into hiding in the remote Norwegian town of Lillehammer after testifying…