Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Alpha Dog (2006)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, Sharon Stone…
- The versatile Emile Hirsch plays a rich, white, and very teenage drug dealer whose charmed existence is threatened when a kidnapping–murder…
Anna Pihl (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Feat. Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
- Praised for its realism, this Danish police drama centres around a Copenhagen policewoman also having to deal with solo parenthood.
Backwoods, The (Bosque de sombras) (2006)
- Dir. Koldo Serra
Feat. Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen
- Latin slice of backwoods gothic is a classy revenge film, as things go from bad to worse for hunting buddy Brits Gary Oldman and Paddy Consadine when…
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling…
- A belated and troublesome sequel to the 1992 sex'n'suspense hit which made Sharon Stone famous, has the psychopathic blonde novelist return, now in…
Big Nothing (2006)
- Dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Feat. Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Natascha McElhone…
- Violent farce with dead–beat Schwimmer falling in with scam–artist Pegg in a bizarre blackmail scheme that goes predictably –and…
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
- A Jewish singer goes deep undercover for the Dutch resistance in this splashy, larger–than–life WWII yarn set in Nazi–occupied…
Black Dahlia, The (2006)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank…
- Seething with atmosphere, this noir crime–drama (based on James Ellroy's novel) presents a complicated case of the unsolved Hollywood murder of…
Blood Trails (2006)
- Dir. Robert Krause
Feat. Rebecca R. Palmer, Ben Price, Tom Frederic
- Low budget horror sees a cyclist woman and her boyfriend pursued by a psycotic fellow rider through the wilderness. This is an effective little…
Brotherhood (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Jason Isaacs, Jason Clarke
- Tough, multistoried drama from HBO competitor Showtime builds a crime legacy on par with THE SOPRANOS in focusing on the Irish neighborhood of…
Bug (2006)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jnr.…
- Claustrophobic, knife's–edge drama in which a victim of spousal abuse (Judd) develops an obsessive, paranoid relationship with an enigmatic…