Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Princess Aurora (Orora gongju) (2005)
- Dir. Eun-jin Bang
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom
- Korean revenge film concerns a scorned woman who commits a series of murders as part of an elaborate revenge scheme.
Far–fetched in that…
- Pusher III (I'm The Angel Of Death: Pusher III) (2005)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Marinela Dekic, Zlatko Buric
- Third instalment of the thoroughly gripping Pusher trilogy closes in on the Sisyphean struggle of drug kingpin Milo (Buric) as he desperately battles…
- Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Angela Baraldi
- Oscar–winning–director Gabriele Salvatore's haughty thriller depicting a desperate private investigator who decides to re–examine…
- Secuestro Express (2005)
- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Mia Maestro, Ruben Blades
- Venezuela comes off second best in this exploitative thriller peddling the country's professional kidnapping trade, where a couple of wealthy young…
- Spiral (TV Series) (Engrenages) (2005)
- Feat. Audrey Fleurot, Philippe Duclos, Caroline Proust
- Euro–crime TV series set in Paris and following the police officers, lawyers and judges surrounding various criminal investigations.
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi) (2005)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Young-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi
- A visually dynamic endpoint to Park Chan–wook's feted vengeance trilogy, this final chapter in the saga emerges from a female perspective, and…
- Tsotsi (2005)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Presley Chweneyagae
- Deserved winner of the 2006 Foreign Language Oscar, this gripping tale of a young homicidal street–thug ('tsotsi') in post–apartheid…
- Van Veeteren (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Feat. Sven Wollter
- CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
- Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Krister Henriksson, Johanna Sällström
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- 36 Quai Des Orfevres (2004)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
- Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil partner again for this straight–faced policier as two veteran cops who compete for the top job while trying…