Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Wire, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison…
- Fourth season of the celebrated crime drama set on the mean back streets of Baltimore.
This time around the focus is on a group of teenage…
Wrong Man, The (Lucky Number Slevin) (2006)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu…
- A crazily convoluted thriller with a powerhouse cast, this is heavy on slick violence and self–aware pop–gun dialogue, with levels of…
13 Tzameti (2005)
- Dir. Géla Babluani
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Georges Babluani
- Coolly disturbing noir thriller tracks the fate of a struggling immigrant labourer who intercepts a package with instructions that lead him into a…
24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
A History of Violence (2005)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris…
- An incisive take on the noir thriller from celebrated horror auteur David Cronenberg (EXISTENZ et al), in which a smalltown family man (Mortensen) is…
Archangel (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova
- Biting thriller based on the Robert Harris novel, with Daniel Craig taking on the role of an academic thrust into darkest post–war Russia to…
Asylum (2005)
- Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland…
- Tense psychological thriller from the dir. of YOUNG ADAM that owes plenty to the master Hitch, with Natasha Richardson in fine form as a bored…
Aura, The (2005)
- Dir. Fabian Bielinsky
Feat. Ricardo Darín
- A taxidermist indulges his criminal fantasies in this brooding, atmospheric wilderness thriller from the late dir. of NINE QUEENS.
Unfolding as a…
Ax, The (Le Couperet) (2005)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jose Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet
- Dastardly satire from the always–edgy Costa Gavras plumbs the depths of a corporate downsizing victim (Garcia) who resorts to murderous ways in…
Beat My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) (2005)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai…
- A star–turn by Romain Duris invigorates this deft remake of James Toback's 1978 thriller FINGERS, playing a reluctant young thug with a…