Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
Village, The (2004)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody…
- A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
Walk on Water (2004)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
- An arresting drama based on the obsessive efforts of an Israeli Mossad hitman –in grieving over his wife's suicide – to search for and…
Wicker Park (2004)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne…
- A flashily–filmed, functional Hollywood remake of L'APPARTEMENT, with Hartnett playing a Chicago artist who falls for a beautiful dancer…
Wire, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Dominic West, Frankie Faison, Idris Elba…
- Third season of this cracking HBO crime drama set in the seedy underbelly of the Baltimore crime scene.
This season the Baltimore mayor is…
World Without Thieves, A (Tian xia wu zei) (2004)
- Dir. Feng Xiaoning
Feat. Andy Lau, Rene Liu
- Two thieves resolve to go straight, only to become entangled in high–stakes plot aboard a long haul train.
Starring the ever–watchable…
11:14 (2003)
- Dir. Greg Marcks
Feat. Rachael Leigh Cook, Barbara Hershey, Patrick Swayze…
- A set of seemingly random incidents all coincide in a sleepy suburban town one evening at 11:14pm, throwing together five different characters with…
21 Grams (2003)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro…
- For his English–language debut, the celebrated Mexican director of AMORES PERROS weighs in with an unconventional, soul–baring drama that…
24 - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- 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…
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
- Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff…
- Teen heart–throb Frankie Munz plays a junior CIA agent in this lightweight but savvy James Bond–parody.
Skateboarding his way into a…
Alexandra's Project (2003)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Helen Buday, Gary Sweet
- Business executive Gary Sweet arrives home one evening and walks into a psychological trap set by his aggreived wife (Buday).
Finding that she has…