Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 116 Films to Rent
- Paradise Now (2005)
- Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
- This extraordinarily brave film shadows the martyrdom of two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bombing in…
- Red Eye (2005)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
- Dir. Wes Craven whittles a lean, claustrophobic thriller around the plight of a woman (McAdams), menaced onboard of short–haul plane flight by…
- Secuestro Express (2005)
- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Mia Maestro, Ruben Blades
- Venezuela comes off second best in this exploitative thriller peddling the country's professional kidnapping trade, where a couple of wealthy young…
- Sorry, Haters (2005)
- Dir. Jeff Stanzler
Feat. Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez…
- The after–effects of September 11 act as a racially–charged backdrop to this low–budget thriller set on the mean streets of New…
- 24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- 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…
- Cellular (2004)
- Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham…
- Interesting abduction thriller leads with a premise that has flaky beachbum Evans rung on his cellphone with a chilling message from a kidnap victim…
- Clearing, The (2004)
- Dir. Pieter Jan Brugge
Feat. Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren…
- An unusually flavoured and structured kidnapping thriller, in which wealthy entrepeneur Redford is abducted by a polite, former–employee…
- Grid, The (Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Julianne Margulies, Bernard Hill…
- Solid and swiftly moving mini–series in which members of multiple security and intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, M16, M15, NSC...) attempt to…
- Man on Fire (2004)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell…
- A hard–eyed revenge thriller which sees an alcoholic bodyguard (Washington) losing a 11–yr old girl he's assigned to protect in Mexico…
- Spartan (2004)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy…
- An expert 'special ops' agent (Kilmer) is sucked headfirst into a wild, yet plausible conspiracy involving the kidnapping of the US president's…