Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Surveillance (2008)
- Dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Feat. Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James…
- Divisive thriller following two FBI agents who must piece together three very different eyewitness accounts of a murder in a small town, in order to…
Suspension (2008)
- Dir. Ethan Shaftel
Feat. Scott Cordes, Annie Tedesco, Caroline Vinciguerra
- Independent sci–fi thriller in the TWILIGHT ZONE mold, concerning a man who loses his wife and son in a car accident, and subsequently…
Tender Hook, The (2008)
- Dir. Jonathan Ogilvie
Feat. Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Matthew Le Nevez…
- Noted for its production design and cinematography, this film captures the visual mood of 1920s Sydney to enfold a melodrama of corruption,…
Tenderness (2008)
- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Jon Foster
- Indie thriller sees Russell Crowe play a semi–retired detective who becomes obsessed with a teenage murderer recently freed from prison, who he…
Three Monkeys (2008)
- Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Feat. Yavuz Bingol, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar…
- A brooding detective story from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, about a wealthy businessman who bribes one of his underlings to take the wrap for a…
Tony Manero (2008)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales
- Unsettling drama set against the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1978, where a psychopathic disco fan steals and kills in an effort to become the…
Traitor (2008)
- Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Feat. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui…
- Don Cheadle stars as a Semtex racketeer selling to the highest bidder – be he CIA or Jihadist – and finds himself a pawn on the twin…