Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Matchstick Men (2003)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman
- A moderately engaging caper comedy from dir. Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage as an obsessive–compulsive type whose profession as a conman…
Mean Creek (2003)
- Dir. Jacob Aaron Estes
Feat. Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelly
- Skillful 'delinquent thriller' about a group of highschool kids who plot to humiliate the overweight school bully on a boating daytrip.
Though the…
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
- A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…