Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Righteous Kill (2008)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, John Leguizamo…
- Heavyweight has–beens De Niro and Pacino team up again as a couple of NYPD detectives on the trail of a serial killer, whose signature murders…
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…
Roxy Hunter (2008)
- Dir. Eleanor Lindo
Feat. Aria Wallace
- Nancy Drew–ish family drama revealing another precocious kid sleuth and her best buddy as they use their investigative know–how to solve…
Shuttle (2008)
- Dir. Edward Anderson
Feat. Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman…
- An airport shuttle ride turn into a nightmare for its nubile passengers in this tightly contained indie adbuction thriller from first–time…
Sin Nombre (Without Name) (2008)
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores
- Honduran teenagers brave Mexican gangs and border patrols as they attempt to illegally emigrate to the US in this superbly mounted,…
Splinter (2008)
- Dir. Toby Wilkins
Feat. Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner
- Lean sci–fi thriller in which a couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station by a deadly parasite intent on making their bodies…
Spooks - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Gemma Jones, Richard Armitage
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Seven: 8…
Square, The (2008)
- Dir. Nash Edgerton
Feat. David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton
- Hard–and–fast noir with an Aussie twang, hatched from a plot to make off with a mobster’s stash of cash, and the luckless turn of…
Strangers, The (2008)
- Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman
- A home invasion horror orcestrated with rare tension and restraint, concerning a couple’s night of terror at the hands of three masked…
Street Kings (2008)
- Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Forest Whitaker…
- LA CONFIDENTIAL author James Ellroy and the writer of TRAINING DAY team up for this ultra–macho, ultra–violent LAPD–centric…