Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Hollywood Flies (2004)
- Dir. Fabio Segatori
Feat. Brad Renfro, Vinnie Jones
- Promisingly sleazy tele–thriller has two bank robbers (Renfro and Jones) in Los Angeles end up kidnapping an Italian woman for ransom. Sundry…
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- Dir. Terry George
Feat. Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo…
- A deeply affecting expose of the Rwandan conflict of the early 1990s that matches its political conscience with vivid staging and terrific…
Hustle (TV Series) (Hu$tle) (2004)
- Feat. Robert Vaughn, Rob Jarvis, Adrian Lester…
- Popular Brit TV drama about the so–called 'pros of con': five slick yet human ripoff artists who earn their bread by staging elaborate stings…
In My Father's Den (2004)
- Dir. Brad McGann
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto…
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…
Khakee (2004)
- Dir. Rajkumar Santoshi
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan
- A Bollywood offering in which the song count is low but the body count is high, this twist–filled, often violent drama centres on the police…
Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (2004)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah…
- The second half of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge saga is an uneven but redeeming affair that brings closure to his magnum opus with more character…
Koma (2004)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Angelica Lee
- The attractive Lee plays a feckless young woman with kidney problems who gets caught up in a scandal involving a gang of organ thieves.
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Ladykillers, The (2004)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall
- The ever–talented Coen Brothers (O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?) take on the challenging task of updating the classic Ealing black comedy, importing…
Layer Cake (2004)
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham…
- A harder–edged version of Britcrime from the LOCK STOCK stable, this has Daniel Craig playing a cocaine dealer on the verge of retirement,…
Machinist, The (2004)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Ironside
- A mind–twisting thriller in the industrial–gothic mould, this might at times feel like an off–cut from the David…