Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Hostages & Terrorism: 21 films to Buy
- November (Novembre) (2023)
- A captivating thriller that dramatizes one of the most incredible manhunts in European history in the aftermath of the 2015 attacks across Paris. Led…
- DVD $29.95
- Ted K: The Unabomber (2021)
- An ambient, minimalistic approach to portraying the life of notorious U.S. domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who lives a life of quiet seclusion in…
- DVD $29.95
- Intelligence (TV Series) (2020)
- British workplace comedy created by and starring Nick Mohammed as an inept and tactless computer analyst who is enlisted by a pompous American NSA…
- DVD $29.95
- Incitement (2019)
- Tense, slow–building thriller depicting Israeli right–wing extremist Yigal Amir in the year leading up to his assassination of the…
- DVD $29.95
- Big Game (2014)
- Bonkers actioner with Sam Jackson as the U.S. President relying on a teenager for aid after Air Force One crash lands in Finnish forest.
- DVD $24.95 | Blu-Ray $29.95
- Camp X-Ray (2014)
- Kristen Stewart stars in this provocative drama about a young soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.
- DVD $24.95
- Green Prince, The (2014)
- Absorbing account of how a son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, became a spy for the Israelis.
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Dirty Wars (2013)
- Chilling docu–drama follows journalist Jeremy Scahill and the trail of secrets and lies he uncovers while investigation America's covert wars.
- DVD $29.95
- A Hijacking (2012)
- A Danish cargo ship is hijacked off the coast of Somalia in this gripping, intense maritime adventure that cuts out all the action heroics usually…
- DVD $19.95
- Gatekeepers, The (2012)
- Six former heads of Israel’s Shin Bet secret service agency open up about their work and the state of the Israel–Palestine divide in this…
- DVD $29.95
- Homeland - Season 1 (TV Series) (2011)
- Anchored by Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile performance, this outstanding surveillance thriller centres on the return of an Iraq war hero…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Carlos (Carlos the Jackal) (2010)
- An explosive, globe–trotting biopic of Venezuelan terrorist and fugitive Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – aka Carlos the Jackal – whose exploits…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
- Northern Ireland's troubled past is tackled in a contemporary spirit of "truth and reconciliation" in this fictional drama in which James Nesbitt…
- DVD
$34.95 $19.95
- Restraint (2008)
- Gripping, stripped–back thriller from across the ditch, in which an agoraphobic toff is taken hostage by a young couple on the run from the…
- DVD $29.95
- Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007)
- Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
- DVD
$29.95 $14.95
- Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Clearing, The (2004)
- An unusually flavoured and structured kidnapping thriller, in which wealthy entrepeneur Redford is abducted by a polite, former–employee…
- DVD $19.95
- Edukators, The (The Educators) (2004)
- A compulsive slice of German youth angst about rebels struggling with their cause, this arthouse smash–hit concerns a trio of youthful…
- DVD
$24.95 $19.95
- Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)
- John Malkovich debuts as a director with this slow–burn police thriller played out in the humid atmosphere of an unamed South American…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- Sandbaggers, The (TV Series) (1978)
- The Sandbaggers is a nickname for the Special Section of the British SIS – a team of special agents deployed undercover in hostile situations…
- DVD $69.95
- Black Sunday (1977)
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
- Blu-Ray $34.95