Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Gravesend (1997)
- Dir. Sal Stabile
Feat. Thomas Brandise, Tom Malloy, Michael Parducci…
- Following a desperate night among four buddies in the run–down New York neighbourhood of Gravesend on the fringe of Coney Island, this…
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd…
- Sporting a sideways sense of humour, this sardonic comedy has likeable, babbling hitman John Cusack shyly fronting up to his 10–year highschool…
Head Above Water (1997)
- Dir. Jim Wilson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Harvey Keitel, Craig Sheffer…
- An island respite turns afoul for Cameron Diaz, who adds to her multiple man troubles with a gush of fateful coincidences. Frantic suspense farce has…
Innocent Lies (Halcyon Days) (1997)
- Dir. Patrick DeWolfe
Feat. Joanna Lumley, Stephen Dorff, Gabrielle Anwar…
- An English detective arrives in pre–WWII France to unravel a murder–mystery in a household fraught with Freudian overtones: matriarch…
Insomnia (1997)
- Dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard
- An edgy, ingeniously plotted psychological thriller about an amoral Swedish detective whose murder investigation in Northern Norway (where the sun…
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
- Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
- Dir. Leslie Greif
Feat. Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger…
- A strong ensemble cast enliven this archetypal 90's crime film set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, making up the mostly unsavoury characters who complicate the…
Kiss or Kill (1997)
- Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Matt Day
- Many critics confounded our suspicions that this was going to be yet another vapid, pretentious, cheap–shot road–movie that exploits the…
Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd
- Raincoated detective Morgan Freeman and bottle–brunetted Ashley Judd seek the psychotic 'Casanova', who kidnaps beautiful woman for his…
L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey…
- Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…