Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
Rounders (1998)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich…
- Once–bitten card sharp Matt Damon is lured into another hand by reckless pal Edward Norton, setting them back on a road paved with suckers,…
Run Lola Run (1998)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
- Runaway foreign–language hit clocks up mileage from a simple conceit – flame–haired punkette Lola has twenty minutes to go like the…
Secret Defense (1998)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire
- A Hitchcockian thriller in which dir. Rivette, better known for his surreal excursions, knowingly toys with the conventions of the suspense genre,…
Shattered Image (1998)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. William Baldwin, Anne Parillaud, Graham Greene
- Dir. Raul Ruiz gives the lurid straight–to–video thriller (a staple of the 90s) an eccentric, if compromised twist, in this sleazy noir…
Snake Eyes (1998)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise
- Morally dubious cops Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise investigate an assassination during a pro–boxing match. Esteemed hack Brian De Palma…
Snow Falling On Cedars (1998)
- Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, Max von Sydow
- The seemingly perfect conjunction of David Guterson's best–selling novel and dir. Hicks (SHINE), results in a technically magnificent, but…
So Close To Paradise (Biandan, guniang) (1998)
- Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Feat. Wang Tong, Shi Yu, Guo Tao
- Chinese film set in the city of Wuhan before it was a household name, where two young migrant workers become embroiled in the city's criminal…
Spanish Prisoner, The (1998)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Campbell Scott, Ben Gazzara, Steve Martin
- Brain–teasing thriller of the highest order from renowned playwright/auteur David Mamet (HOUSE OF GAMES, OLEANNA), vaunts a Chinese Box…
Stalker's Apprentice, The (1998)
- Dir. Marcus D.F. White
Feat. Peter Davison, James Bolam, Kathleen Turner
- A book editor uses a writer's manuscript about a serial killer as a template for his own homicidal fantasies in this punchy, at times lurid British…
Such a Long Journey (1998)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah
- Set in the turbulent India of 1971, just prior to the war with Pakistan, this artfully fashioned drama centres on the political and personal crises…