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Subgenre Sampler

 
MudMud (2012) Recommended
Dir. Jeff Nichols
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland
Jeff Nichols (TAKE SHELTER) directs this thrilling backwoods adventure, about two boys who befriend a charismatic criminal in hiding on the…
Place Beyond the Pines, ThePlace Beyond the Pines, The (2012) Aro Favourite
Dir. Derek Cianfrance
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper
Ryan Gosling re–teams with the dir. of BLUE VALENTINE for this equally arresting crime saga that unfolds after a motorcycling drifter's…
SavagesSavages (2012)
Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively
Oliver Stone directs this pulsating thriller with two pot dealers facing off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
SkyfallSkyfall (2012) Aro Favourite
Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench
Bond’s 50th anniversary outing is his most spectacular and serious yet, with 007 drawn back to London, and eventually his Scottish homeland, in…
Zero Dark ThirtyZero Dark Thirty (2012) Recommended
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER) directs this formidable thriller based on the CIA's decade–long manhunt for Osama bin Laden.
DriveDrive (2011) Recommended
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Ryan Gosling smoulders as a moonlighting getaway driver in–over–his–head in this crisply stylised, romance–inflected crime…
HeadhuntersHeadhunters (2011) Recommended
Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Recommended
Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt
An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…
BuriedBuried (2010)
Dir. Rodrigo Cortes
Feat. Ryan Reynolds
A literal puzzle box thriller delivered with confidence and aplomb, this stars a lone Ryan Reynolds as a kidnapped truck driver who is held for…
Debt, TheDebt, The (2010) Recommended
Dir. John Madden
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds
Gripping spy thriller, with Helen Mirren as a retired Mossad agent whose exploits in capturing a Nazi war criminal come back to haunt her three…

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