Subgenre Sampler
Gangsters: 360 Films to Buy & Rent
- Enter the Phoenix (2004)
- Dir. Stephen Fung
Feat. Daniel Wu, Karen Mok, Nicholas Tse…
- The disowned gay son of a dying triad leader must inherit control of an organised crime family in this typically scattershot Hong Kong comedy…
- Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo
- Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
- One Night in Mongkok (Wong gok hak yau) (2004)
- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung
- A bespectacled 'Mainland' Chinese man is recruited for the assassination of a triad boss in the lusciously seedy Hong Kong district of Mongkok, but…
- Redemption (2004)
- Dir. Vondie Curtis Hall
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, C.C.H. Pounder
- Above–average telemovie biopic about Stan 'Tookie' Williams (Foxx), founder of the notorious street gang, 'The Crips', who after years of…
- Sucker Free City (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Ken Leung, Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie
- Originally a pilot, Spike Lee’s little–known excursion into the realm of Cable TV is an ethnically diverse gang drama converging black,…
- American Cousins (2003)
- Dir. Don Coutts
Feat. Dan Hedaya, Shirley Henderson
- Appealingly down–to–earth Glaswegian gangster comedy about a sweet–natured café worker who ends up entangled with the Ukrainian…
- Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
- Dogville (2003)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall…
- This fierce parable of hypocrisy, exploitation and revenge set on a “soundstage” version of 1930s America is a brilliant conception of dir. Lars…
- Gettin' Square (2003)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Gary Sweet…
- A breezy crime black comedy, set around the good intentions and criminal bungling of several smalltimers in Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
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- Ginji The Slasher (2003)
- Dir. Takeshi Miyasaka
Feat. Riki Takeuchi
- Low profile suspenser, set around a recalcitrant swordsman who goes on the rampage in post–WW2 Japan and 50 years later is released to start…