Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Identity (2003)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet…
- File this teasing, shamelessly manipulative thriller under “guilty pleasure” for its gimmick premise can either be enjoyed as a cheeky…
Imagining Argentina (2003)
- Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades…
- A controversial adaptation of Lawrence Thornton's award–winning novel, set in the Argentine dictatorship of the mid–1970s.
Thompson is…
In the Cut (2003)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- An uncomfortable, darkly ‘feminist’ thriller for which Meg Ryan deflowers her star persona, playing a troubled forty–something who…
Infernal Affairs 3 (Mou gaan dou III) (2003)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Leon Lai…
- Actual sequel to the hit Hong Kong gangland–cop thriller attempts valiantly to tie up loose ends, both picking up where corrupt cop Ming (Lau)…
Intermission (2003)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy…
- Irish crime drama teeming with 'interconnected' plotlines and profane lowlife, dreaming various criminal and romantic endeavours into…
Jericho Mansions (2003)
- Dir. Alberto Sciamma
Feat. James Caan, Jennifer Tilly, Genevieve Bujold…
- An apartment block murder–mystery styled in the tradition of European arthouse fare. As the loner caretaker, James Caan finds himself the chief…
Killing Words (Palabras encadenadas) (2003)
- Dir. Laura Mana
Feat. Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén…
- This quality, award–winning thriller has a woman waking to find herself restrained in a dark basement, while a seeming serial–killer,…
Last Samurai, The (2003)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton…
- Swathed in the scenery of New Zealand, this enactment of the Japanese civil wars of the late 19th century is an ambitious, though…
Manson Family, The (2003)
- Dir. Jim Van Bebber
Feat. Marcelo Games
- Psychedelic biopic of the notorious hippie anti–icon Charles Manson, who gathered a cult following around him in the late 1960s and programmed…
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (2003)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy
- Vivid sea–chase yarn, set during the Napoleonic Wars, with Crowe commanding the screen as the sympathetic captain of a British frigate…