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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
- An extraordinary, multi–layered dramatic thriller from France that deservingly won the Palm D'or at Cannes.
For the past year, Sandra, a…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
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
Decision To Leave (2022)
- An exquisite and mysterious melodrama from Korean maestro Park Chan–Wook (Old Boy, Thirst, The Handmaiden), ostensibly about a detective who…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
Holy Spider (2022)
- An astonishing new film from Ali Abbasi, who makes good on the promise of his head–turning Danish troll drama “Border” (2018). This one…
- DVD $29.95
Maigret (2022)
- Gérard Depardieu brings to remarkable life one of the most beloved characters from 20th–century crime fiction in this crime drama from…
- DVD $29.95
The Origin of Evil (2022)
- A black comedy thriller from France about riches, bitches and patriarchal pricks, because when it comes to money all bets are off and all knives come…
- DVD $29.95
Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
- A gritty action–thriller based on true events following a diplomatic skirmish between North and South Korea that breaks out on the African…
- DVD $29.95
Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- A cracker of a French drama that teeters on the edge of a thriller throughout because it’s all about the pressure cooker that is modern life.…
- DVD $29.95
To Chiara (A Chiara) (2021)
- A rites–of–passage drama in the Italian neo–realist tradition that examines the impact of Mafia activity on those in the close…
- DVD $29.95
Appearances (Les apparences) (2020)
- French–Belgian psychological thriller about a happily married couple living in Vienna whose lives are disrupted when one suspects the other of…
- DVD $29.95
Painter and the Thief, The (2020)
- A astonishing art documentary about the Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova, who tracked down and met the criminal who stole her paintings.
What…
- DVD $29.95
Translators, The (Les Traducteurs) (2020)
- A multi–lingual literary thriller centering around nine international translators, one of whom may be leaking pages of a highly anticipated…
- DVD $29.95
Wildland (2020)
- Powerful coming–of–age Scandi–noir about a Danish teenager who becomes embroiled in the ruthless criminal life of her aunt and…
- DVD $29.95
A White, White Day (2019)
- Aesthetically striking Icelandic drama which plunges the viewer deep into the psyche of a tortured former police officer who suspects a neighbour…
- DVD $29.95
All the Sins (TV Series) (2019)
- Compulsive Nordic noir miniseries following a detective who returns to his home town in Northern Finland to investigate two murders, while…
- DVD $29.95
Heroic Losers (2019)
- Winning underdog comedy from Argentinian director Sebastian Borensztein (CHINESE TAKEAWAY) based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri (THE SECRET IN THEIR…
- DVD $29.95
Monos (2019)
- A dark contemporary fable inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in a remote and mountainous region of Columbia, where a group of teenage…
- DVD $29.95
Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes) (2019)
- A superb psychological thriller set in rural France that uncovers a twisted web of deceit concerning five people who are all linked to the…
- DVD $29.95
Parasite (2019)
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
Who You Think I Am (Celle que vous croyez) (2019)
- Juliet Binoche is outstanding at the helm of this elegant psychological thriller, playing a French literature professor and middle–aged…
- DVD $29.95
Birds of Passage (2018)
- Intelligent and engrossing narco–thriller set in Columbia in the 1960's, following an indigenous Wayuu man and his family as they turn to drug…
- DVD $29.95
Dogman (2018)
- The director of GOMORRAH and TALE OF TALES expertly helms this gripping urban Italian crime noir about a mild mannered and diminutive dog groomer who…
- DVD $29.95
Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) (2018)
- Iranian maestro Asghar Farhadi assembles a powerhouse cast for this Spanish–language about a mother–of–two who returns from Buenos…
- DVD $24.95
Mother is Wrong (TV Mini-series) (Maman a tort) (2018)
- French thriller following a detective who, despite being already consumed by a major robbery, takes on the chilling case of a child who tells her his…
- DVD $34.95
Purity of Vengeance, The (Journal 64) (2018)
- The fourth and final installment in the Danish 'Department Q' detective series initiated by The KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES is a conspiracy thriller…
- DVD $29.95
Transit (2018)
- Distinguished wartime melodrama from Christian Petzold (BARBARA, PHOENIX) following the plight of a holocaust survivor who assumes the identity of a…
- DVD $29.95
Bridge, The - Series 4 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2017)
- Fourth series of the enormously popular Danish–Swedish murder mystery is set two years after the conclusion of Series 3 with the central…
- DVD $39.95
Double Lover (L'amant double) (2017)
- Sexually–charged, stylized thriller from director Francois Ozon about a fragile young model who moves in with her psychoanalyst, only to…
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In the Fade (2017)
- Diane Kruger's momentous performance is central to this drama about a woman called Katja from Hamburg, whose husband and son are killed in a…
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$29.95 $15, $29.95
Frozen Dead, The (TV Series) (Glacé) (2016)
- Chilly crime thriller set in the French Pyrenees that unravels after the discovery of a headless body of a horse hanging suspended from the edge of a…
- DVD $34.95
Handmaiden, The (2016)
- Delicious erotic thriller from the brilliant Park Chan–Wook, who lends his impeccable style to a provocative potboiler of lesbian love and…
- Blu-Ray $34.95
Modus (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Swedish psychological thriller series following the work of a criminal psychologist and profiler who has previously assisted both the Swedish police…
- DVD $34.95
Norskov (TV Series) (2015)
- CONTRABAND TITLE. Season 1 is not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film &…
- DVD $39.95
Suburra (2015)
- Enthralling crime saga follows a gangster named Samurai as he attempts to turn the waterfront of Rome into an Italian Las Vegas.
- DVD $29.95
Absent One, The (2014)
- Diverting second entry in the Department Q series, following on from THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES. This time Mørck and Assad are investigating the…
- DVD $19.95
Second Chance, A (2014)
- Susanne Bier directs a haunting melodrama about the contrasting lives of two police officers, whose lives take a dark turn after finding a neglected…
- DVD $29.95
Crimes of Passion (TV Series) (2013)
- Scandi–crime goes period! Post–war Sweden is the backdrop for this immaculately dressed series of mysteries and whodunnits, based on the…
- DVD $29.95
German Doctor, The (2013)
- Chilling domestic thriller centred on the Argentine family who lived unknowingly with Josef Mengele, the notorious Auschwitz physician, after he fled…
- DVD $24.95
Keeper of Lost Causes, The (Kvinden i buret) (2013)
- Danish thriller that finds a cynical detective, put in charge of the "Department Q"– devoted to "filing" cold cases, investigating the…
- DVD $19.95
New World (2013)
- Essentially INFERNAL AFFAIRS transposed to the Korean underworld, this brutal gangster flick revolves around an undercover cop whose loyalty to the…
- DVD $19.95
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
- An unnerving, sexually frank thriller set around an idyllic gay cruising spot, where two lovers strike up a heated romance that threatens to turn…
- 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
Ace Attorney (2012)
- Takashi Miike churns out this preposterous video game adaptation, about a cocksure lawyer who agrees to defend his courtroom rival in a murder trial,…
- DVD $29.95
Killing, The - Series 3 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2012)
- Final episodes in the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a third plot exploring a death linked to the global financial crisis…
- DVD $39.95
Shadow Men, The (Spin; Les Hommes De L'Ombre) (2012)
- Political drama series follows the actions of a group of spin doctors who each advance their own cause after the assassination of the French…
- DVD $39.95, $39.95, $39.95
Taste of Money, The (2012)
- The dir. of THE HOUSEMAID buffs this heady class critique of Korea's impudent elite to a high sheen, with the lust and corruption of a wealthy family…
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Bridge, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2011)
- The Scandi–crime wave continues with this steely Danish–Swedish murder mystery, centred on the discovery of a body straddling the…
- DVD $99.95
Headhunters (2011)
- Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
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Headshot (2011)
- Thai new waver Pen–ek Ratanaruang directs this zen–like "Buddist noir" about a hitman who seeks enlightenment after a bullet to the head…
- DVD $29.95
Life Without Principle (2011)
- Hong Kong's master of suspense crafts this swirling triumvirate of stories centred on unraveling lives amidst the global financial crisis.
Combing…
- DVD $29.95
Angels of Evil (2010)
- Taking a leaf from MESRINE's rap sheet, Italy simultaneously glorifies and moralises the story of its own criminal rock star, Renato…
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$29.95 $19.95
Easy Money (Snabba Cash) (2010)
- High–flying Swedish thriller centres on a Stockholm business student who moonlights as a drug runner in order to maintain the illusion of…
- DVD $29.95
How I Ended This Summer (2010)
- Two Russian meteorologists isolated at polar station on the Arctic fringes put each other in jeopardy in this tense, slow–burn adventure.
An…
- DVD $34.95
Outside the Law (2010)
- Dir. Bouchareb (DAYS OF GLORY) re–frames the revolutionary tactics of Algerian nationalists against the French post–WWII as a…
- DVD $29.95
Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
- 'Hammer and tong' serial killer potboiler centres on a lowly store clerk who begins murdering policemen (and their pregnant wives) after his…
- DVD $29.95
A Million (2009)
- Slavishly entertaining Reality TV spin–off pits eight Korean contestants against each other and the Australian Outback in a race for the…
- DVD $29.95
About Elly (2009)
- Though something of a dress rehearsal for Farhadi's Oscar–winning A SEPARATION, this tense and absorbing account of a beach holiday tainted by…
- DVD $29.95
Killing, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2009)
- Further episodes from the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a secondary plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy…
- DVD $39.95
Lulu and the Bank Robber (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- An independent mother and small business owner is drawn into the dodging dealings of her habitual criminal husband in this pulpy Danish crime…
- DVD $44.95
Mother (2009)
- Cavalier Korean dir. Bong Joon–ho (THE HOST) contorts a regulation murder mystery, centred on a mother's campaign to clear her deadbeat son's…
- DVD $19.95
Prophet, A (Un Prophet) (2009)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard betters the accomplished storytelling of THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, situating an immersive world of cloistered gangsters and…
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$24.95 $18.70
Jerusalema (2008)
- A punchy, gun–toting gangland epic following the rise to two Soweto teenagers seduced by crime and violence in South Africa.
Although…
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Mesrine (Killer Instinct, Public Enemy Number 1) (2008)
- Effective, if at times highly sensationalised biopic of career criminal Jacques Mesrine – France’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ throughout the 1960s and…
- DVD $19.95
Killing, The - Complete Series Boxset (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007-2012)
- The entire 40–episode story arc of the gripping Danish crime thriller – an immensely popular series synonymous with the 'Nordic Noir'…
- DVD $79.95
Killing, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007)
- A ripping Danish homicide serial in the long–form tradition of THE WIRE, which weaves a plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy around a…
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$39.95 $29.95
Aura, The (2005)
- A taxidermist indulges his criminal fantasies in this brooding, atmospheric wilderness thriller from the late dir. of NINE QUEENS.
Unfolding as a…
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$19.95 $14.95
Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- DVD $44.95
Eagle, The (TV Series) (A Crime Odyssey) (2004)
- An expert Danish thriller dealing in international terrorism and cross–border crime, this involves the usual task force machinations of special…
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Khakee (2004)
- A Bollywood offering in which the song count is low but the body count is high, this twist–filled, often violent drama centres on the police…
- Poster (F) $7.95
Matando Cabos (2004)
- Energetic Mexican 'farce of errors' in which two teenagers kidnap a coldly ruthless businessman, not realising he is also a coveted prize for a…
- DVD $29.95
I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) (2003)
- Atmospheric thriller from dir. Gabriele Salvatores that deftly conveys a foreboding childhood experience during a long, hot summer in the country,…
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$24.95 $18.70
Kaante (Thorns) (2002)
- From a new generation of Bollywood film–making comes a kinetic heist picture, shot and located in LA in which six Indian suspects plot a…
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$29.95 $14.95
Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)
- A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
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$19.95 $14.95
Character (1997)
- A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
- DVD $19.95
American Friend, The (1976)
- Twisting thriller stars Bruno Ganz as an apparently terminally–ill man duped into murder. Dennis Hopper plays the American 'friend', while…
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$34.95 $19.95