Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
Dark City (1998)
- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly…
- Advancing on earlier efforts like THE CROW, director Alex Proyas, fabricates a shadowy urban jungle, replete with echoes of earlier sci–fi…
Divorcing Jack (1998)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. David Thewlis
- David Thewlis (NAKED) does what he does best as a hard–drinking, hard–bitten hack who, after a rotten series of luck, musters up the…
Enemy of the State (1998)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Will Smith, Jon Voight, Gene Hackman
- Lawyer Will Smith unwittingly receives proof of a high–ranking assassination, and becomes not so much the enemy of the state as of…
Final Cut (1998)
- Dir. Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Feat. Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone
- A sordidly comic tale of sex, lies and 8mm film – eleven 'friends' gather for the funeral of a film–maker (Jude Law) and discover that…
Gingerbread Man, The (1998)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Duvall…
- Script by the courtroom–obsessed John Grisham is here assigned to auteurist Robert Altman (THE PLAYER, SHORT CUTS), who manages to…
Goodbye Lover (1998)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Ellen DeGeneres…
- Dark neo–noir comedy with a group of 90's yuppie types embroiled in a tangled web of seduction, adultery and a murder plot, until cynical…
Heat of the Sun (TV Mini-Series) (1998)
- Feat. Trevor Eve
- The seedier side of Kenya's expatriate community is laid bare in this classic British police procedural set in 1930s Nairobi.
Hush (1998)
- Dir. Jonathan Darby
Feat. Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech
- Familiar variation on the mother–in–law–from–hell model, with an above–average cast unable to pull it out of the…
In Dreams (1998)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Annette Bening
- Clairvoyant mother Annette Bening starts having visions through the eyes of a serial killer.
Rising far above its no – I'm not crazy!''…
In God's Hands (1998)
- Dir. Zalman King
- A moody visual style distinguishes this ride on the hummungest waves of the world surf–scene – Bali, Mexico and of course, Hawaii.…