Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 116 Films to Rent
- He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
- Dir. Frank A. Cappello
Feat. Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy
- With his best role in donkey's years, Christian Slater stars in this bleakly satirical drama as a frustrated loner who decides to take out his anger…
- Hunting Party, The (2007)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, James Brolin…
- Action–packed serio–comic political thriller in the spirit of THREE KINGS centres on the shaggy dog story of an intrepid trio of…
- Nobel Son (2007)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy…
- Peppy crime caper about a recent Nobel Prize winner whose son is kidnapped and ransomed for the $2 million prize money.
Directed with whiz, pop,…
- Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Frenetic thriller by dir. of TSOTSI concerns Witherspoon's desperate search for her husband after he goes missing on an international flight,…
- Shoot on Sight (2007)
- Dir. Jag Mundhra
Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri…
- Not so much hot potato as lukewarm, this political thriller bases its story on the real–life shooting of an innocent Brazilian man gunned down…
- Trade (2007)
- Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicia Bachleda…
- Grimy drama sees a 13–year–old–girl kidnapped by sex traffickers, prompting her older brother to set off in pursuit aided by Texas…
- 24 - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Civic Duty (2006)
- Dir. Jeff Renfroe
Feat. Peter Krause, Richard Schiff
- Post–9/11 paranoia and propaganda combine to arouse the suspicions of a newly–redundant accountant (SIX FEET UNDER's Krause), who…
- Deja Vu (2006)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel
- More flash and bang from blockbuster teamsters Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott, here devising a series of brute action sequences around a…
- Fay Grim (2006)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Thomas Jay Ryan…
- This unlikely sequel to HENRY FOOL finds Parker Posey deep undercover for the CIA, dispatched to France to recover her ex–husband’s (ruffian…