Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 116 Films to Rent
- Five Fingers (2006)
- Dir. Laurence Malkin
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne, Colm Meaney…
- Hostage drama with a few surprises up its sleeve has Dutch pianist (Phillippe) on a charity trip to Morocco who gets abducted by Moroccan terrorists…
- Infinite Justice (2006)
- Dir. Jamil Dehlavi
Feat. Kevin Collins, Raza Jaffrey
- Following in the footsteps of A MIGHTY HEART, this vigorous political thriller inspired by the Daniel Pearl case follows an investigative journalist…
- Inside Man (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…
- Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
- Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry…
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
- Unit, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. David Mamet, various
Feat. Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, Robert Patrick…
- The brainchild of David Mamet, this riveting black–ops suspenser serialises the daring assignments of a covert special forces team who, under…
- Unknown (2006)
- Dir. Simon Brand
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan…
- Unbelievably twisty, indie hostage thriller in the tradition of RESERVOIR DOGS and The USUAL SUSPECTS.
Five men awake bloody and beaten in a…
- 24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Hidden (Cache) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou…
- A disquieting modern thriller that pulls no punches, depositing a climate of terrorism and fear onto the lives of two French professionals and their…
- Hostage (2005)
- Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
Feat. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker…
- Bruce Willis negotiates familiar territory as a SWAT agent drawn into a messy siege in a high–security mansion, where three white–trash…
- Munich (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz…
- Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…