Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3090 Films to Rent
Acolytes (2008)
- Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Hanna Mangan Lawrence…
- Chilling, if somewhat uneven, low–budget Aussie thriller concerning a group of teens who blackmail a serial killer to help them extract revenge…
American Trap, The (2008)
- Dir. Charles Biname
Feat. Remy Girard, Colm Feore, Janet Lane
- Paranoid sixties set thriller has a Canadian criminal becoming an unwitting secret weapon for a covert organisation and bearing witness to a chain of…
Anything for Her (Pour Elle) (2008)
- Dir. Fred Cavaye
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch…
- Cracking French thriller sees a happy couple's marriage torn apart when the wife is sent to prison for murder. Convinced of her innocence, her…
Assassination Of A High School President (2008)
- Dir. Brett Simon
Feat. Mischa Barton, Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis…
- A high–school reporter investigating the disappearance of missing exam papers uncovers a wider conspiracy in this smart, teen riff on CHINATOWN.
Baader Meinhof Complex, The (2008)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek…
- A big–budget, pulse–pounding account of terrorism and political protest in 1960s and 70s Germany, centred on the notorious Red Army…
Blindness (2008)
- Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover…
- Psychological thriller set in a big city where a sudden epidemic of 'white blindness' strikes half the population, and those affected set up their…
Body Of Lies (2008)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Vince Colosimo…
- Double–crossing political thriller starring DiCaprio as a street–savvy US intelligence operative at the beck and (phone)call of a CIA…
Breaking Bad - Season 1 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Cynical drama series that gives us a new anti–hero in Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Broken, The (2008)
- Dir. Sean Ellis
Feat. Lena Headey, Ulrich Thomsen, Melvil Poupaud…
- Spooky, artfully directed thriller, about a woman (Headey) who suspects she’s being followed around London by a murderous…
Burn After Reading (2008)
- Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Feat. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt…
- Appealing 'dunderhead' comedy from the Coen Brothers that plots an elaborate caper for its A–list ensemble cast, who relish the chance to…