Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Girl-centric: 90 Films to Rent on DVD
- Panic Room (2002)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam…
- Gifted visual stylist David Fincher downsizes a little with a dark, Hitchcockian chamber piece that pushes enough of the right buttons to make it a…
- 8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart…
- In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
- Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
- Snakeskin (2001)
- Dir. Gillian Ashurst
Feat. Melanie Lynskey, Dean O'Gorman, Boyd Kestner…
- Searching for a little excitement in those hills due west of Christchurch, NZ, Melanie Lynsky and Dean O’Gorman are sucked into a series of private…
- Beautiful Creatures (2000)
- Dir. Bill Eagles
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch
- An ultra–violent Scottish twist on THELMA AND LOUISE, with Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch leaving Glasgow in a shower of blood, and heading out…
- Contender, The (2000)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges…
- Strongly performed political thriller centred around the confirmation of Vice–Presidential candidate Joan Allen, whose enemies try every trick…
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
- Runaway foreign–language hit clocks up mileage from a simple conceit – flame–haired punkette Lola has twenty minutes to go like the…
- Wild Things (1998)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Matt Dillon…
- Rattle–brained thriller sets highschool minxes Neve Campbell and Denise Richards into action, putting honest–Joe sailing instructor Matt…
- Office Killer (1997)
- Dir. Cindy Sherman
Feat. Cindy Sherman, Molly Ringwald, Barbara Sukowa
- A bloody revenge fantasy – a mousy secretary gets her own back on intimidating office co–workers – informed by a stylised,…
- Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Smilla's Sense of Snow) (1997)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris
- From Peter Hoeg's acclaimed novel, Julia Ormond glistens in the plumb role of the frosty, feisty half–eskimo woman who over–concerns…