Subgenre Sampler
Hostages & Terrorism: 229 Films to Buy & Rent
Secuestro Express (2005)
- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Mia Maestro, Ruben Blades
- Venezuela comes off second best in this exploitative thriller peddling the country's professional kidnapping trade, where a couple of wealthy young…
Sorry, Haters (2005)
- Dir. Jeff Stanzler
Feat. Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez…
- The after–effects of September 11 act as a racially–charged backdrop to this low–budget thriller set on the mean streets of New…
War Within, The (2005)
- Dir. Joseph Castelo
Feat. Ayad Akhtar
- A powerful anatomy of a suicide–bomber in the making, this unsettling thriller is notable for looking through the eyes of an immigrant to the…
24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Cellular (2004)
- Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham…
- Interesting abduction thriller leads with a premise that has flaky beachbum Evans rung on his cellphone with a chilling message from a kidnap victim…
Clearing, The (2004)
- Dir. Pieter Jan Brugge
Feat. Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren…
- An unusually flavoured and structured kidnapping thriller, in which wealthy entrepeneur Redford is abducted by a polite, former–employee…
Death in Gaza (2004)
- Dir. James Miller
- A powerful, if not devastating, study of two children and a teenager growing up in the fractious and perilous Gaza Strip, where attacks by Israel and…
Dirty War (2004)
- Dir. Daniel Percival
- A BBC dramatisation which proposes how, in the post–9/11 world, a large–scale terrorist attack might be unleashed on London using 'dirty…
Edukators, The (The Educators) (2004)
- Dir. Hans Weingartner
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg
- A compulsive slice of German youth angst about rebels struggling with their cause, this arthouse smash–hit concerns a trio of youthful…
Grid, The (Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Julianne Margulies, Bernard Hill…
- Solid and swiftly moving mini–series in which members of multiple security and intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, M16, M15, NSC...) attempt to…