Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Best Laid Plans (1999)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Alessandro Nivoli, Josh Brolin
- A chain of outrageous twists carry out from a questionable set up – a one night stand that ends with accusations of date rape for a…
Bone Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
- Denzel Washington's acting skills are put to the test playing a quadriplegic forensics expert helping to track down a particularly grisly serial…
Brokedown Palace (1999)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman
- OE–gone–awry flick has an impetuous Claire Danes and demure Kate Beckinsale land in major difficulties during their Thai holiday after…
Channeling Baby (1999)
- Dir. Christine Parker
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Kevin Smith
- 'First sight' romance between a blind pacifist and a shell–shocked soldier in the 70s ended in heartbreak after the tragic 'disappearance' of…
Civil Action, A (1999)
- Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy…
- Fact–based account of a protracted courtroom duel between two corporations and small–town folk, whose children have been affected by…
Criminal, The (1999)
- Dir. Julian Simpson
Feat. Bernard Hill, Stephen Mackintosh, Eddie Izzard…
- Brit–crime without the big flashy style, instead opting for a classic prime–suspect–on–the–run plotline, underworld…
Cruel Intentions (1999)
- Dir. Roger Kumble
Feat. Sarah Michelle Geller, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon
- Spoiled and randy step–siblings Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipe raise the amorality stakes by betting that he can deflower the prim…
Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha) (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Ren Osugi
- A jaw–dropping, wickedly amoral revenge thriller from the dir. of AUDITION, who blows the dust (and the roof) off gangster movie cliches and…
Debt Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Anthony Neilson
Feat. Billy Connolly, Francesca Annis
- Billy Connelly plays it straight as former hard man who finds latter day respectability as a novelist and sculptor, but the resentful, dishonoured…
Desert Blue (1999)
- Dir. Morgan J. Freeman
Feat. Brendon Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci…
- Various moods of isolation pervade the Californian desert–town setting of this comical melange of cliché and eccentricity, contrived around an…