Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3090 Films to Rent
X (Night of Vengeance) (2011)
- Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Viva Bianca, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence
- A lurid, superficially–surfaced expose of tough–minded prostitutes working Sydney's King's Cross sex trade. Strictly style over…
Zen (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Rufus Sewell, Caterina Murino, Julie Cox…
- Short–lived but stylish BBC detective series wades into the overcrowded male crime fighter market with suave Rufus Sewell in the role of…
24 - Season 8 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Final season of the high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
4.3.2.1 (2010)
- Dir. Noel Clarke
Feat. Emma Roberts, Noel Clarke, Tamsin Egerton
- Ludicrous Tarantino wannabe, in which a chance encounter with a gang of diamond thieves sends four girls on a collision course not only each other,…
A Quiet Life (2010)
- Dir. Claudio Cupellini
Feat. Toni Servillo, Marco D'Amore, Francesco Di Leva…
- Moody thriller with Servillo –outstanding once again– as a restauranteur who's past resurfaces after a chance encounter with two…
Accused (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Naomie Harris, Warren Brown…
- Acclaimed British anthology series centres each episode on the back story of a new character as they make their way to the dock in court to await the…
All Good Things (2010)
- Dir. Andrew Jarecki
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella…
- Bizarre account of a notorious unsolved murder with Ryan Gosling as an eccentric business heir who's wife mysteriously disappears in the…
American, The (2010)
- Dir. Anton Corbijn
Feat. George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido…
- George Clooney stars a weary hit–man forced to lay low in the Italian countryside after a job goes wrong in this attractive though lugubrious…
And Soon the Darkness (2010)
- Dir. Marcos Efron
Feat. Amber Heard, Karl Urban, Odette Yustman…
- Stock remake of a minor '70's chiller concerns two friends cycling through Argentina, when they split up one goes missing, and the other finds…
Angels of Evil (2010)
- Dir. Michele Placido
Feat. Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino…
- Taking a leaf from MESRINE's rap sheet, Italy simultaneously glorifies and moralises the story of its own criminal rock star, Renato…