Subgenre Sampler
Hostages & Terrorism: 230 Films to Buy & Rent
Eagle Eye (2008)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson…
- Derivative but entertaining cyber–thriller in which a young man and single mother get framed as terrorists and find themselves unexpectedly…
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
- Dir. Kari Skogland
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers…
- Sharp docu–drama with Jim Sturgess as Irishman Martin McGartland, charged with infiltrating the IRA during the 1980s. Tense action sequences…
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
- Dir. Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Feat. Kal Penn, John Cho
- Asian/Indian douchbags Harold and Kumar, in search of another high, are arrested and detained in Guantanamo Bay for trying to smuggle a bong into…
I Come with the Rain (2008)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Tran Nu Yen-Khe…
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung revives the humid, squalored atmosphere of his acclaimed CYCLO with this stylish, heavy–handed international noir. Josh…
Julia (2008)
- Dir. Erick Zonca
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
- Gutsy, dynamic melodrama propelled by a full–tilt performance from Tilda Swinton as a loose cannon alcoholic who becomes embroiled in…
Last Stop 174 (2008)
- Dir. Bruno Barreto
Feat. Michel Gomes, Cris Vianna, Marcello Melo Junior
- Adrenalised dramatisation of the infamous bus–hijacking examines the life of the troubled young hijacker. As an action film this is…
Restraint (2008)
- Dir. David Denneen
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel
- Gripping, stripped–back thriller from across the ditch, in which an agoraphobic toff is taken hostage by a young couple on the run from the…
Shuttle (2008)
- Dir. Edward Anderson
Feat. Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman…
- An airport shuttle ride turn into a nightmare for its nubile passengers in this tightly contained indie adbuction thriller from first–time…
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- To see or not to see: that is the question posed by acclaimed director Errol Morris as he attempts to understand what took place inside the walls of…
Taken (2008)
- Dir. Pierre Morel
Feat. Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley…
- Retired CIA operative Liam Neeson goes COMMANDO all over Paris on a ruthless mission to save his kidnapped daughter from an Albanian prostitution…