Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Hostage (2005)
- Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
Feat. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker…
- Bruce Willis negotiates familiar territory as a SWAT agent drawn into a messy siege in a high–security mansion, where three white–trash…
Ice Harvest, The (2005)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen…
- A chilled–out study in sleaze and crime with partners John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton contriving a way to lift $2 million from a Mob client…
Interpreter, The (2005)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener…
- A topical thriller embroiled in the thorny issues of African politics (with obvious allusions to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), this is a slick,…
Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian
- Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
Jacket, The (2005)
- Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson…
- Adding to a growing canon of mind–bending thrillers of distinction (see our 'Close Relatives' below), this certainly feels part of a distinct…
Jesse Stone [Movie Series] (2005-2015)
- Feat. Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Saul Rubinek…
- Based on the detective novels by Robert B. Parker, Tom Selleck plays his eponymous law enforcement officer from Massachusetts in this series of…
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…