Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Code, The (La Mentale) (2002)
- Dir. Manuel Boursinhac
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan
- Convincingly gritty crime drama set in the drab outer zone of Paris' apartment estates and trailer parks, with a recently paroled hood (Le Bihan)…
Confidence (2002)
- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia…
- In order to extricate himself from his last botched con, grifter Ed Burns enacts a monster scam against a crooked banker for mobster Dustin…
Crime and Punishment (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. John Simm, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont…
- Lyrical TV adaptation of the great Dostoevsky novel focused on a young murderer struggling to escape his feelings of guilt and paranoia before they…
CSI Miami (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. David Caruso, Rory Cochrane
- Episodes from the first series of the Florida–based spinoff from the successful forensic procedural series. David Caruso follows William…
Cupid's Prey (2002)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Joanna Pacula
- Low end US production filmed in New Zealand, in which a young woman holidays with her boyfriend's troublesome family. Strictly run of the mill.
Cypher (2002)
- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu
- A striking, coolly managed thriller, where future corporations mount elaborate espionage missions against each other using specially trained…
Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)
- Dir. John Malkovich
Feat. Javier Bardem
- John Malkovich debuts as a director with this slow–burn police thriller played out in the humid atmosphere of an unamed South American…
Dark Blue (2002)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson…
- Unexpectedly sharp police drama lifted from a James Ellroy story and placed into Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots.
Expressing the…
Demonlover (2002)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny…
- An insinuating future–shock Euro–thriller, with Connie Neilsen as an attractive corporate executive caught in the…
Dirty Deeds (2002)
- Dir. David Caesar
Feat. Bryan Brown, John Goodman, Sam Neill…
- A brassy Aussie cousin to SNATCH, this fun Aussie thriller sees the thriving criminal empire of Bryan Brown in late 60s Sydney scouted by Mafia…