Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3180 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Castle, The (2001)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo
- Solid followup to THE CONTENDER for dir. Lurie, set in a military stockade where war–hero General Robert Redford has been sent for disobeying…
Law and Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) (2001-2004)
- Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan…
- One of the various spin–offs to the long–running crime drama LAW AND ORDER, in which D'Onofrio and Erbe track down the bad guys for the…
Love the Hard Way (2001)
- Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier
- Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
Made (2001)
- Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Famke Janssen…
- The hotly–awaited follow–up to SWINGERS from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau looks to resurrect the easy–going swing and…
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini…
- The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
Mary Higgins Clark - Collection One (All Around Town, Haven't We Met Before?, Loves Music Loves to Dance) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan
- Two telemovie thrillers from the prolific pen of Mary Higgins Clark which generally revolve around a female protagonist who must resolve a difficult…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Messiah (TV Series) (2001-2005)
- Feat. Ken Stott, Frances Grey, Michelle Forbes
- Grisly BBC serial in the tradition of PRIME SUSPECT and CRACKER shadows the case solving of a partially–deaf detective with a disturbed nose…
Monkey's Mask, The (2001)
- Dir. Samantha Lang
Feat. Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis
- Steamy, stylish thriller has P.I. Susie Porter tracking down the killer of a nymphomaniac teenage girl, whose explicit poems are a major clue.…
Mortal Transfer (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Miki Manojlovic, Helene de Fougerolles…
- Freudian psycho–thriller with analyst Anglade finding himself a little too attracted to masochistic patient de Fougerolles. Delirious visuals…