Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Aura, The (2005)
- Dir. Fabian Bielinsky
Feat. Ricardo DarĂn
- A taxidermist indulges his criminal fantasies in this brooding, atmospheric wilderness thriller from the late dir. of NINE QUEENS.
Unfolding as a…
- Ax, The (Le Couperet) (2005)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jose Garcia, Karin Viard, Olivier Gourmet
- Dastardly satire from the always–edgy Costa Gavras plumbs the depths of a corporate downsizing victim (Garcia) who resorts to murderous ways in…
- Beat My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) (2005)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai…
- A star–turn by Romain Duris invigorates this deft remake of James Toback's 1978 thriller FINGERS, playing a reluctant young thug with a…
- Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
- Crime Novel (Romanzo criminale) (2005)
- Feat. Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria…
- Novel–based Italian crime drama concerning a group of small–town crims who went on to become Rome's most merciless crime family and a…
- Election (2005)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Simon Yam, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- A terrific gangland power tussle from genre exponent Johnnie To, this combative suspenser embarks on the shady underworld of triad politics in…
- Have No Fear (Non aver paura) (2005)
- Dir. Angelo Longoni
Feat. Laura Morante, Alessio Boni
- Isolating Italian thriller focused on a recent divorcee trying to make ends meet while fighting a custody battle and dealing with a persistent…
- Hidden (Cache) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou…
- A disquieting modern thriller that pulls no punches, depositing a climate of terrorism and fear onto the lives of two French professionals and their…
- Murder Take One (The Big Scene) (2005)
- Dir. Jin Jang
Feat. Ha-kyun Shin, Seung-Won Cha
- Thwarted by a television agreement consigning an ongoing homicide investigation to the prying eyes of a Reality TV show, prosecutor Choi (Cha) must…
- Paradise Now (2005)
- Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
- This extraordinarily brave film shadows the martyrdom of two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bombing in…