Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Foreign Cinema: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Manipulation (2011)
- Dir. Pascal Verdosci
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch
- Sweaty Cold War thriller centred on the cat–and–mouse game between a special agent investigating possible spy moves by a top PR advisor.
- Miss Bala (2011)
- Dir. Gerardo Naranjo
Feat. Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Jose Yenque
- A beauty pageant contestant becomes entangled in a Tijuana drug cartel killing spree in this electric Mexican thriller.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
- Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Feat. Muhammet Uzuner, Firat Tanis, Yilmaz Erdogan
- Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan directs this masterful long–haul road movie about a convoy of policemen searching for a body on the…
- Polisse (2011)
- Dir. Maïwenn
Feat. Karin Viard, Marina Fois, Nicolas Duvauchelle …
- A tough, unglamorous insight into the police work of a Parisian Juvenile Protection Unit, whose officers grapple with the moral and personal dilemmas…
- Rebellion (2011)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi…
- A proficient, airtight geopolitical thriller from dir. Kassovitz, who also stars as the captain of a counterterrorist division sent to New Caledonia…
- Silence, The (Das letzte Schweigen) (2011)
- Dir. Baran bo Odar
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Katrin Sass, Wotan Wilke Möhring
- German thriller set in 2009, 23 years after the unsolved rape and murder of an 11–year old girl, when a remarkably similar crime attracts the…
- Skin I Live In, The (2011)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…
- Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
- Sleepless Night (2011)
- Dir. Frederic Jardin
Feat. Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier…
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…
- Woman in the Fifth, The (2011)
- Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Intriguing, if ultimately baffling Parisian thriller about a struggling American writer (Ethan Hawke) who embarks on a passionate affair with an…
- A Quiet Life (2010)
- Dir. Claudio Cupellini
Feat. Toni Servillo, Marco D'Amore, Francesco Di Leva…
- Moody thriller with Servillo –outstanding once again– as a restauranteur who's past resurfaces after a chance encounter with two…