Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 133 Films to Rent
- Guard, The (2010)
- Dir. John Michael McDonagh
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham…
- A straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) and a raucous Irish cop (Gleeson) buddy up to take down an international drug smuggling ring in this riotous…
- Wolfman, The (2010)
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt…
- Disjointed remake of the Lon Chaney classic stars Benicio Del Toro as the broody beast, helplessly chowing down on Victorian London.
Although the…
- Sherlock Holmes (2009)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams…
- Blockbuster makeover of the famous sleuth has Holmes re–imagined as a brawny, off–beat super–hero type, battling a fiendish villain…
- Hurt Locker, The (2008)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty…
- Nerve–jangling Iraq War set drama follows a gung–ho bomb disposal expert with a seeming addiction to adrenaline.
The most…
- RocknRolla (2008)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton…
- Stylephile Guy Ritchie revisits well–trodden territory with this typically tangled crime caper involving a menagerie of seedy opportunists…
- Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Édgar Ramírez…
- Quality white–knuckle thrills–and–spills flick concludes the Bourne trilogy – and our super–spook hero’s (Damon)…
- Zodiac (2007)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards…
- Intense, painstaking thriller from the dir. of SEVEN magnifies San Francisco's unsolved ‘Zodiac’ killings with obsessive compulsion and…
- Prestige, The (2006)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson…
- Another astounding feat of storytelling from the dir. of MEMENTO that spins a constantly intriguing yarn of two rival magicians who engage in a…
- Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Matt Damon, Franke Potente, Brian Cox…
- Creditable sequel to the sleeper hit THE BOURNE IDENTITY, which tracked the anxieties of an amnesiac former CIA–assassin on the run across…
- Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (2004)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah…
- The second half of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge saga is an uneven but redeeming affair that brings closure to his magnum opus with more character…