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Subgenre Sampler

 
HostageHostage (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, TheIce Harvest, The (2005) Recommended
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, TheInterpreter, The (2005) Recommended
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) 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, TheJacket, The (2005) Aro Favourite
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]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, TheKing, 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 BangKiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Recommended
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 WarLord 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…
LoveLove (2005) Recommended
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…

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