Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 116 Films to Rent
- 24 - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- 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…
- Blind Flight (2003)
- Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache
- True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
- Tears of the Sun (2003)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser…
- Bruce Willis leads the charge in a 'Special Ops' mission in war–ravaged Nigeria.
Assigned to rescue a UN doctor (Belluci!) he and his squad…
- 24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
- Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)
- Dir. John Malkovich
Feat. Javier Bardem
- John Malkovich debuts as a director with this slow–burn police thriller played out in the humid atmosphere of an unamed South American…
- John Q (2002)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ray Liotta, Robert Duvall…
- Denzel Washington plays a cash–strapped pillar–of–decency who can’t afford his son’s heart–transplant in the mercenary US…
- Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Alden Anderson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall
- A nightmarish post–9/11 thriller from Tom Clancy, with Ben Affleck taking the place of Harrison Ford as CIA–man Jack Ryan, here hunting…
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Doona Bae
- Incredibly bleak suspenser witnesses the disastrous efforts of a deaf–mute man and his girlfriend (who is on the fringes of a terrorist cell)…
- Don't Say a Word (2001)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Jennifer Esposito…
- “Threatened–family” thriller, with psychiatrist Michael Douglas rising to the challenge – outwit the kidnappers of his daughter, who…
- Way of the Gun (2001)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis…
- A kidnap–chase down Mexico way, featuring “live–by–the–gun” crims Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillipe and abductee…