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Subgenre Sampler

 
Paradise NowParadise Now (2005) Recommended
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 EyeRed Eye (2005) Recommended
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 ExpressSecuestro 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, HatersSorry, 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)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…
CellularCellular (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, TheClearing, 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)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 FireMan 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…
SpartanSpartan (2004) Recommended
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…

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