Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
King, The (2005)
- Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Elena Harring
- A brooding, accomplished slice of southern discomfort with Gael Garcia Bernal (in his first US film) playing recently dischargee from the Navy named…
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- Dir. Shane Black
Feat. Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jnr., Corbin Bernsen…
- Reflexively vulgar and enjoyably vicious, this comic–thriller has fumbling thief Downey Jnr. by chance winning an audition for a film part,…
Lord Of War (2005)
- Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan…
- A thoughtful though heavy–handed thriller about an intelligently amoral Ukrainian–American (Cage), who dedicates himself to the world…
Love (2005)
- Dir. Vladen Nikolic
- Little–known but extremely worthwhile drama lays out several major storylines, but centres on the struggles of a former Serbian soldier trying…
Luella Miller (2005)
- Dir. Dane Giraud
Feat. Sara Wiseman, Philip Brown, Sia Trokenheim
- Competent local drama set in a small country town, where quiet lifestyle and gentle intrigues are disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic young…
Malice Aforethought (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Blair
Feat. Ben Miller, Barbara Flynn, Megan Dods
- Ironically fashioned PBS tele–mystery has a frustrated doctor (Miller) driven to dose his overbearing wife (Flynn) with poisons, but having to…
Matador, The (2005)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis…
- Deftly–toned comedy tracks the chance meeting in Mexico City of a sleazy, aging hitman (Brosnan) and a struggling dotcom consultant (Kinnear),…
Match Point (2005)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansson…
- Widely touted as Woody Allen's finest film since the mid–80's, this is also his least characteristic – set in London and entirely…
Munich (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz…
- Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…
Murder Take One (The Big Scene) (2005)
- Dir. Jin Jang
Feat. Ha-kyun Shin, Seung-Won Cha
- Thwarted by a television agreement consigning an ongoing homicide investigation to the prying eyes of a Reality TV show, prosecutor Choi (Cha) must…