Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3174 Films to Buy & Rent
Ledge, The (2011)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard…
- Barbed dramatic suspense centred on a feud between a Christian extremist and a staunch atheist who has been driven to take his own life. A meaty…
Life Without Principle (2011)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Terence Yin, Richie Ren
- Hong Kong's master of suspense crafts this swirling triumvirate of stories centred on unraveling lives amidst the global financial crisis.
Combing…
Limitless (2011)
- Dir. Neil Burger
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish…
- Dynamic thriller in the hyper–reality genre that follows a struggling writer who discovers a top–secret brain–enhancing drug which…
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon…
- A surprisingly solid – and notwithstanding its sensationalist title – serious movie (amid splashes of gun–toting action) about the plight…
Mad Dogs (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley…
- Oddly unsettling and engaging in equal measure, this mid–life black comedy centres on four middle–aged blokes who reunite to celebrate…
Man from Beijing, The (2011)
- Dir. Peter Keglevic
Feat. Michael Nyqvist, Suzanne von Borsody
- A straightforward Scandi–thriller with a German accent, about the mystery behind the massacre of 18 people in a small Swedish town –…
Manipulation (2011)
- Dir. Pascal Verdosci
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch
- Sweaty Cold War thriller centred on the cat–and–mouse game between a special agent investigating possible spy moves by a top PR advisor.
Marchlands (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston…
- Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
- Dir. Sean Durkin
Feat. Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy…
- A damaged young woman struggles to re–assimilate with her sister after fleeing an abusive cult in this unnerving, suggestive psycho–drama…
Miss Bala (2011)
- Dir. Gerardo Naranjo
Feat. Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Jose Yenque
- A beauty pageant contestant becomes entangled in a Tijuana drug cartel killing spree in this electric Mexican thriller.