Subgenre Sampler
Policier: 430 Films to Buy & Rent
Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
- Dir. Ed Gass-Donnelly
Feat. Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Martha Plimpton…
- Simmering provincial redemption story stars Peter Stormare as a clammy police officer trying to escape his violent past in a small Mennonite…
Thorne (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen…
- Another top–draw British policier loaded with all the usual suspects: atmosphere, plot twists, and a hard–bitten hero, with David…
Underbelly - Season 3 (TV Mini-series) (The Golden Mile) (2010)
- Feat. Mitch Bartlett, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Emma Booth
- Sydney’s infamous Kings Cross, circa 1989, is the setting for this latest airing of Australia’s dirty laundry.
Although centred on the…
Above Suspicion (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Kelly Reilly, Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
- British crime series based on the novels written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT). A rookie female detective, determined to prove herself amidst…
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer…
- Werner Herzog's spin on the 1992 bad–boy classic delights in seeing a pasty, middle–aged Nicolas Cage cracking up (in all three meanings…
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke…
- The dir. of TRAINING DAY spins this heavy–handed multi–narrative around three burnt out NYC cops at the end of their tether. Posturing…
Diamond 13 (2009)
- Dir. Gilles Behat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Asia Argento, Olivier Marchal
- Downbeat and convoluted thriller with a dying cop roping in his loyal partner in a scheme to steal a shipment of cocaine from a drug…
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
- One of the highest–grossing foreign language hits at the NZ box office, this riveting, full–bodied Swedish thriller follows an escalating…
Hunter (TV Mini-series) (2009)
- Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Janet McTeer
- Standard BBC police drama following Detective Superintendent Iain Barclay (Bonneville) and his deputy Detective Sergeant Amy Foster (McTeer) as they…
In the Electric Mist (2009)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Improving on previous James Lee Burke adaptation HEAVEN’S PRISONERS, this sturdy New Orleans thriller has Tommy Lee Jones assuming the plum role of…