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Subgenre Sampler

 
Secuestro ExpressSecuestro 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, HatersSorry, 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, TheWar 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)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…
CellularCellular (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, TheClearing, 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 GazaDeath in Gaza (2004) Recommended
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 WarDirty 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, TheEdukators, The (The Educators) (2004) Recommended
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)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…

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