Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 38 Films to Rent on VHS
- Missing Gun, The (Xun qiang) (2002)
- Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Wen Jiang
- Wound–up thriller set in a small and eccentric Chinese village, where a policeman wakes one morning with a hangover to find his…
- Princess and the Warrior, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente
- Follow–up and companion piece to dir. Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN, is a 'Snow White'–inspired tale of a psychiatric nurse who is hit by a…
- Assassin(s) (1997)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault
- Disappointing followup to LA HAINE for dir./star Kassovitz, plumping for a story of an apprentice hitman (Kassovitz) to aging pro Michel Serrault,…
- Full Alert (1997)
- Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng
- Quality police thriller with realistic drama, bracing action and strong sense of locale – regarded as one of the last 'classics' from the…
- Port Djema (1997)
- Dir. Eric Heumann
Feat. Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent…
- A Paris surgeon gets into the thick of dangerous politics at an East African colonial port as he traces the footsteps of a murdered friend. Won Best…
- Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1996)
- Dir. Agustin Diaz Yanes
Feat. Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem
- Alcoholic and reluctant whore Victoria Abril turns a few clever tricks on a Mexican mob's laundering operation. A Spanish pulpy fiction grafted with…
- Pure Formality, A (Una pura formalità) (1996)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski
- A chilling interrogation of an elusive murder suspect transpires under weather most foul. Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu face–off…
- Bait, The (L'Appat) (1995)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Marie Gillain
- A claustrophobic psychological thriller dealing with a trio of young friends who naively conspire to commit a home invasion, that becomes a study of…
- Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
- Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka
- An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
- L'Amour Molesto (Wounded Love) (1995)
- Dir. Mario Martone
Feat. Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Gianni Cajafa…
- Filial difficulties between mother and daughter act as the centre of gravity for this Italian mystery that matches its edgy storyline with a…