Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Numbers (TV Series) (Numb3rs) (2005)
- Feat. Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch
- An original and enjoyably intellectual take on the crime–solving TV genre, which entertains the concept of an FBI agent (Morrow) employing his…
Paradise Now (2005)
- Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
- This extraordinarily brave film shadows the martyrdom of two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bombing in…
Princess Aurora (Orora gongju) (2005)
- Dir. Eun-jin Bang
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom
- Korean revenge film concerns a scorned woman who commits a series of murders as part of an elaborate revenge scheme.
Far–fetched in that…
Prison Break - Season 1 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Stacy Keach…
- Making a masterfully gripping series out of its preposterous premise, this finds a wealthy architect (Miller) enfurl an elaborate plan to rescue his…