Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Whiteout (2009)
- Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short…
- Brisk, improbable thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshall investigating Antarctica’s first ever homicide on the brink of continent’s…
Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, A (2009)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Honglei Sun, Shen-Yang Xiao, Ni Yan
- Dir. Zhang Yimou weaves a tale of adultery and revenge in 19th century China, based on the Coen brothers' classic neo–noir, BLOOD SIMPLE.
100 Feet (2008)
- Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick
- A woman (Janssen) confined to her house after being accused of murdering her husband is plagued by his vengeful ghost in this high–concept…
21 (2008)
- Dir. Robert Luketic
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth…
- Snappy thriller based on the true story of a group of students who cheat the Vegas gambling system in order to pay off their college fees, helped…
24 - Redemption (2008)
- Dir. Jon Cassar
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows…
- Solid feature–length primer for 24's seventh season finds the ever–durable Jack Bauer on the lam from American authorities, hiding out in…
24 - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
25 Carat (25 Kilates) (2008)
- Dir. Patxi Amezcua
Feat. Francesc Garrido, Aida Folch, Manuel Moron…
- Relentless thriller set in the Barcelona underworld where a loan enforcer and a car thief pair up for a particularly dangerous heist.…
A Film With Me In It (2008)
- Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon
Feat. Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen…
- Wonderfully droll vehicle for the amiable, slightly–sozzled comic persona of Dylan Moran, who stars as a down–at–heel actor who…
Acolytes (2008)
- Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Hanna Mangan Lawrence…
- Chilling, if somewhat uneven, low–budget Aussie thriller concerning a group of teens who blackmail a serial killer to help them extract revenge…
American Trap, The (2008)
- Dir. Charles Biname
Feat. Remy Girard, Colm Feore, Janet Lane
- Paranoid sixties set thriller has a Canadian criminal becoming an unwitting secret weapon for a covert organisation and bearing witness to a chain of…