Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 472 Films to Buy & Rent
Girl Who Played with Fire, The (2009)
- Dir. Daniel Alfredson
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
- Part two of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium Trilogy' sees the return of touch–as–nails Lisbeth Salander, who must clear her name of murder…
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
- One of the highest–grossing foreign language hits at the NZ box office, this riveting, full–bodied Swedish thriller follows an escalating…
Killing, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2009)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- Further episodes from the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a secondary plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy…
Lebanon (2009)
- Dir. Samuel Maoz
Feat. Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen…
- Intense, multi–faceted battle thriller set during the height of the Israeli–Lebanon conflict in 1982 in which four young soldiers sent by…
Lulu and the Bank Robber (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Feat. Lene Maria Christensen, Lars Brygmann, Nicole Johansen
- An independent mother and small business owner is drawn into the dodging dealings of her habitual criminal husband in this pulpy Danish crime…
Message, The (2009)
- Dir. Kuo-fu Chen, Qunshu Gao
Feat. Bingbing Li, Xun Zhou, Zhiwen Wang…
- Sino–Japanese tensions are foregrounded in this enthralling cat and mouse thriller, set in a clifftop mansion during the height of World War…
Mother (2009)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Hye-ja Kim, Won Bin, Ku Jin
- Cavalier Korean dir. Bong Joon–ho (THE HOST) contorts a regulation murder mystery, centred on a mother's campaign to clear her deadbeat son's…
Murderer (2009)
- Dir. Roy Chow
Feat. Aaron Kwok, Ning Chang, Tam Chun Yat
- Serial killer convention receives an enjoyable, shameless workout with this Hong Kong policier, centred on a police investigator framed for a series…
Overheard (Qie ting feng yun) (2009)
- Dir. Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
- The directors of INFERNAL AFFAIRS reel in their sleek, sprawling urbane sensibility, changing tack with this compact character study about three…
Prophet, A (Un Prophet) (2009)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif…
- Dir. Jacques Audiard betters the accomplished storytelling of THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, situating an immersive world of cloistered gangsters and…