Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
When Night Falls (2007)
- Dir. Alex Galvin
Feat. Tania Nolan, Rosella Hart
- Creeping Wairarapa–set thriller fixed on two nurses holed up in a remote country house caring for a patient while trying to steer clear of a…
Yella (2007)
- Dir. Christian Petzold
Feat. Nina Hoss
- Engrossing metaphysical thriller set in a predatory corporate world in which a divorcee accountant (Hoss) decides to leave behind her redundant life…
You Move You Die (2007)
- Dir. Ketzal Sterling
Feat. Ketzal Sterling, Bruce Hopkins
- Ad hoc gangster thriller out of Auckland concerns a stolen engagement ring, and its ensuing recovery by a desperate fiancée and his posse of…
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…
.45 (2006)
- Dir. Gary Lennon
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Angus Macfadyen, Stephen Dorff
- Sultry crime drama centred on two petty–crime thugs addicted to danger and each other, until a violent attack spurs the woman (Jovovich) to…
12 In A Box (2006)
- Dir. John McKenzie
Feat. Ed Bennett, David Burrows-Sutcliffe, Robert Cargill…
- Farcical comedy following a dozen old school 'friends' who are offered the chance to win a million pounds each if they can survive 96 hours with one…
24 - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- 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…
Adrift (Open Water 2) (2006)
- Dir. Hans Horn
Feat. Susan May Pratt
- Respectably–suspenseful dive back into the premise of OPEN WATER, this has a handful of squabbling twenty–something American friends on a…
Alibi, The (Lies & Alibis) (2006)
- Dir. Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, James Marsden…
- Nicely–off kilter farce stars Steve Coogan as a 'reformed' con–artist running an 'alibi providing service' for adulterous spouses to help…
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
- Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Whitney Able
- Above–average slasher flick following a group of Texan teens who invite the unobtainable 'hot girl' at their school to a remote weekend…