Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
Princess and the Warrior, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente
- Follow–up and companion piece to dir. Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN, is a 'Snow White'–inspired tale of a psychiatric nurse who is hit by a…
Proof of Life (2000)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse
- South American ransom thriller with Meg Ryan seeking to extricate her rich husband (David Morse) from the jungle, and Russell Crowe as the…
Rancid Aluminium (2000)
- Dir. Edward Thomas
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald…
- A minor Britcrime thriller that, despite some amateurish production, has its own peculiar vein of comedy that may strike one as quite amusing in the…
Reindeer Games (2000)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron…
- Parolee Ben Affleck may wish he was back in his cell after impersonating his dead cellmate and landing in various spots of leftover bother, namely…
Risk (2000)
- Dir. Alan White
Feat. Tom Long, Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan
- With an assured sense of style and atmosphere, the dir. of ERSKINVILLE KINGS crafts a thriller with more than the usual depth. Tom Long is an…
Seance (2000)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho
- A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
Secret Agent Man (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Costas Mandylor, Dondre Whitfield, Dina Meyer…
- Short lived quasi–remake of DANGER MAN, this has three agents working for the mysterious 'Agency' in order to quell evildoers and their plans.…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)
- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke
- The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Sight, The (2000)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Honor Blackman, Kevin Tighe
- Reasonably crafted TV suspenser, has McCarthy playing an American architect on the trail of vicious serial–killer in London, with only his…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…