Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
People I Know (2002)
- Dir. Daniel Algrant
Feat. Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal…
- A NYC publicist personally and professionally crashing helps out a high–profile client and ends up trapped in a warren of drug fuelled scandal…
Phone Booth (2002)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes…
- A lean, claustrophobic and entertaining thriller with the cute gimmick of a single location and played out in real time – Colin Farrell plays a…
Quickie, The (2002)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Vladimir Mashkov, Henry Thomas…
- A middling US debut for the dir. of PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS, this weaves a drama of moral corruption around a troubled Russian mob family festering…
Quiet American, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Rade Serbedzija
- True to the spirit of Graham Greene’s novel, this cautionary tale of American interference in 50s French Vietnam is an involving,…
Red Dragon (2002)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes…
- Betraying the odds after the lackluster “Hannibal”, this accomplished ‘prequel’ based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name more than…
Reign of Fire (2002)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey
- Fire–breathing dragons are woken from their millennial slumbers by repairmen in the London Underground, and begin laying waste to the earth in…
Relative Evil (Ball in the House) (2002)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn…
- Deceptively marketed as a kind of "wicked stepmother" thriller, this is instead a well–constructed, paranoid black comedy about a teenage…
Road To Perdition (2002)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law…
- Handsomely–mounted Chicago gangland flick that casts Tom Hanks against type as a mob hitman who becomes an ‘angel of vengeance’ after he is…
Salton Sea, The (2002)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg…
- Striking thriller from the lowlife perspective of the methamphetamine trade, invigorated by performances of Val Kilmer and Vincent…
Savage Messiah (2002)
- Dir. Mario Azzapardi
Feat. Luc Picard
- Fact–based account of a cult leader who presides over a quasi–religious commune, which includes his eight wives and 26 children.
Luc…