Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3180 Films to Buy & Rent
Dead or Alive 2 (Tobosha) (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
- Understated yet rewarding sequel to the mind–blowing gangster actioner follows on from the 'end of the world' with an unrelated story, with…
Dogwatch (2000)
- Dir. Laurie McInnes
Feat. Steven Vidler, John Brumpton
- A tale of lost souls set on a drifting merchant–ship in the Triad–infested South China Sea during the 1960s, this floats over some clunky…
Don Matteo (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Terence Hill
- A uniquely comedic riff on the detective genre, with the series' titular Father Matteo spreading God’s message by day, while moonlighting as a…
Exposure (2000)
- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Ron Silver, Alexandra Paul, Paul Gittins…
- Moody thriller about a former war photographer, now washed up doing nude shots in New Zealand, who becomes embroiled in a murder…
Eye of the Beholder (2000)
- Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, k.d. Lang…
- Intriguing in concept, this surveillance thriller sees British agent Ewan McGregor tracking the movements of vicious serial killer Ashley Judd from…
Fail Safe (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss
- A TV–movie with a difference, this remake of Sidney Lumet's 1964 feature, was acted and broadcast live on American TV, heightening the…
Frequency (2000)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. John Caviezel, Dennis Quaid
- Time–travel thriller tuned to an interesting premise – a NYPD cop speaks to his dead father via a ham radio.
Features some…
Gossip (2000)
- Dir. Davis Guggenheim
Feat. Lena Headey, Kate Hudson, Norman Reedus…
- Three media students decide to create a story out of pure, unfounded gossip, targeting a affluent and prudish classmate.
The story of her sexual…
Harry, He's Here to Help (With a Friend Like Harry,Who Needs Enemies?) (2000)
- Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas
- French festival–hit that invokes the delicious menace of Alfred Hitchcock with its insidious central character, Harry (Sergi Lopez) who invites…
Hole, The (2000)
- Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Thora Birch, Daniel Brocklebank, Desmond Harrington…
- Thora Birch (AMERICAN BEAUTY) delivers a convincing English accent for this Brit variation of Teenage Gothic, emerging as the only survivor of a…