Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 245 Films to Rent on VHS
- Full Alert (1997)
- Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng
- Quality police thriller with realistic drama, bracing action and strong sense of locale – regarded as one of the last 'classics' from the…
- Gravesend (1997)
- Dir. Sal Stabile
Feat. Thomas Brandise, Tom Malloy, Michael Parducci…
- Following a desperate night among four buddies in the run–down New York neighbourhood of Gravesend on the fringe of Coney Island, this…
- Head Above Water (1997)
- Dir. Jim Wilson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Harvey Keitel, Craig Sheffer…
- An island respite turns afoul for Cameron Diaz, who adds to her multiple man troubles with a gush of fateful coincidences. Frantic suspense farce has…
- Innocent Lies (Halcyon Days) (1997)
- Dir. Patrick DeWolfe
Feat. Joanna Lumley, Stephen Dorff, Gabrielle Anwar…
- An English detective arrives in pre–WWII France to unravel a murder–mystery in a household fraught with Freudian overtones: matriarch…
- Locusts, The (1997)
- Dir. John Patrick Kelley
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kate Capshaw, Ashley Judd
- Tawdry, mostly shallow slice of Southern 'Faulkner–esque' pulp has Vince Vaughn (SWINGERS) drifting into a hot spot of small–town trouble…
- Lost Valley (1997)
- Dir. Dale G Bradley
Feat. Andrea Thompson, Meg Foster, Mandie Gillette…
- Straight–to–video local thriller concerning two backpackers (Meg Foster and Andrea Thompson) and their daughters (Mandie Gillette and…
- Maker, The (1997)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Johnathon Rhys-Myers, Matthew Modine, Fairuza Balk…
- To all appearances a straightforward crime–film, the dir. of RIVER'S EDGE distinguishes the coming–of–age tale of troubled teen…
- Murder in Mind (1997)
- Dir. Andrew Morahan
Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Nigel Hawthorne
- Mary Louise Parker wakes up clutching a bloodied knife, her murdered husband beside her, and suffering from complete amnesia. Turning to…
- Playing God (1997)
- Dir. Andy Wilson
Feat. David Duchovny
- Diverting psycho–thriller for David Duchovny, playing a doctor struck–off for malpractice. After flirting with skid–row he lands in…
- Port Djema (1997)
- Dir. Eric Heumann
Feat. Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent…
- A Paris surgeon gets into the thick of dangerous politics at an East African colonial port as he traces the footsteps of a murdered friend. Won Best…