Subgenre Sampler
Hostages & Terrorism: 229 Films to Buy & Rent
Good Morning, Night (2003)
- Dir. Marco Bellocchio
- A dramatisation of events surrounding the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 by The Red Brigades, as seen through the…
Holy War, Inc. (2003)
- National Geographic's TV 'special' on Osama Bin Laden and his 'al–Qaeda' organisation, that presents a straight–forward account till…
My House in Umbria (2003)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini…
- Maggie Smith centres this superior telemovie, playing an ex–pat romance novelist whose life in Italy is disturbed when she is caught up in a…
Tears of the Sun (2003)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser…
- Bruce Willis leads the charge in a 'Special Ops' mission in war–ravaged Nigeria.
Assigned to rescue a UN doctor (Belluci!) he and his squad…
24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
7 Days in September (2002)
- Dir. Steven Rosenbaum
- A collage of images and events shot during the events of September 11th 2001, this is actually one of the most impressive filmic memorials made thus…
Bus 174 (2002)
- Dir. José Padilha
- A riveting analysis of an incident in Rio de Janeiro in June 2000 in which a lone, desperate gunman held hostage the passengers of a bus, while the…
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…
John Q (2002)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ray Liotta, Robert Duvall…
- Denzel Washington plays a cash–strapped pillar–of–decency who can’t afford his son’s heart–transplant in the mercenary US…
Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Alden Anderson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall
- A nightmarish post–9/11 thriller from Tom Clancy, with Ben Affleck taking the place of Harrison Ford as CIA–man Jack Ryan, here hunting…