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Suspense/Crime

Mysteries, thrillers and crime-based tales with generally more brains and less brawn than its Action relative...

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MuruMuru (2022)
Dir. Tearepa Kahi
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett
A riveting local action-thriller that boldly fictionalizes events surrounding the Nga Tuhoe raids of 2007. Our finest actor Cliff Curtis leads a top ensemble cast, with the remarkable casting of Tame Iti as himself, the chief target of a misguided government conspiracy. It's an angry but clear-headed…
Where the Crawdads SingWhere the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Dir. Olivia Newman
Feat. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor Smith, Harris Dickinson
From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from…
Ted K: The UnabomberTed K: The Unabomber (2021)
Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Sharlto Copley
An ambient, minimalistic approach to portraying the life of notorious U.S. domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who lives a life of quiet seclusion in the mountains of Montana. His growing contempt for technology and modern society soon leads to local acts of sabotage and deadly bombing attacks in the late…
Coming Home in the DarkComing Home in the Dark (2021)
Dir. James Ashcroft
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Erik Thomson, Daniel Gillies
Not for the faint of heart, this Kiwi thriller is confrontingly grim yet takes the psycho-killer genre into thematic territory it rarely bothers to go. Expanded from an Owen Marshall short story, it excels in all departments (especially the four key performances) and director James Ashcroft (in an…
NitramNitram (2021)
Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis
An intense yet clear-eyed psychological drama from accomplished director Justin Kurzel (TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG) depicting the events that lead up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. An atrocity that darkened Australia's history and prompted an overhaul of the nation's gun control laws,…
PigPig (2021)
Dir. Michael Sarnoski
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin
A mesmerising drama with Nicolas Cage (somewhat) changing pace to play a bedraggled truffle hunter living in the remote Oregonian wilderness. When his beloved foraging pig is stolen, he returns to his former home of Portland in search of her. A promising debut from gifted director Michael Sarnoski,…
Brawl in Cell Block 99Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
Midnight movie from the writer-director of BONE TOMAHAWK, with Vince Vaughan in a charismatic career best as a former boxer and drug courier who finds himself in the middle of a prison battleground after a deal goes wrong. A violent yet controlled and blackly comic homage to 70's grindhouse movies.