Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3180 Films to Buy & Rent
Envy (1999)
- Dir. Julie Money
Feat. Anna Lise Phillips, Linda Cropper, Wade Osborne
- A family is devastated in the aftermath of the ‘rape’ of her teenage son at the hands of a trio of young crims – mother Linda Cropper then…
Essex Boys (1999)
- Dir. Terry Winsor
Feat. Charlie Creed-Miles, Sean Bean
- One of the present wave of British crime–films, this tale of trainee cabbie Charlie Creed–Miles going to work for volatile hard–man…
Extremely Dangerous (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Sean Bean
- British thriller miniseries finds Sean Bean a man escaped, pursued by authorities as he fights to prove his innocence upon discovering wife and…
Felicia's Journey (1999)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinee Khanjian
- Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan takes a sideways step to adapt the Birmingham–set novel by William Trevor, a portrait of a serial killer of the…
Fight Club (1999)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
- Those grim forebodings of the pre–millennial zeitgeist form a backdrop to this flawed but thoroughly unique thriller–satire.
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Following (1999)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
- A dazzling debut for dir. Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO), this quicksilver suspenser concerns a writer who begins to 'follow' people around London,…
General's Daughter, The (1999)
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Woods
- Gathering suspense from the 'closed–world' ethics of the US military, this thriller from the writer of A FEW GOOD MEN concerns a gruesome,…
Ghost Dog (1999)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman…
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch refines his zen–like poise in this weird, laidback comedy. Solemn hitman Forest Whitaker follows an ancient samurai code,…
Gun Shy (1999)
- Dir. Eric Blakeney
Feat. Liam Neeson, Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt…
- Implausible and cartoonish, this crime comedy has the novelty of Liam Neeson trying out a comedy role – as stressed–out undercover cop…
Heaven (1999)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Martin Donovan, Joanna Going, Danny Edwards…
- Banished into virtual anonymity by Miramax studio indifference, we can only assume they found this 'arty' thriller too slippery to pigeonhole and…