Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 473 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Eagle, The (TV Series) (A Crime Odyssey) (2004)
- Feat. Jens Albinus
- An expert Danish thriller dealing in international terrorism and cross–border crime, this involves the usual task force machinations of special…
Fida (2004)
- Dir. Ken Ghosh
Feat. Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Fardeen Khan
- Typically likeable Bollywood item that intercrosses two love stories with the tale of an online bank heist. Treading lightly through the genre…
Khakee (2004)
- Dir. Rajkumar Santoshi
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan
- A Bollywood offering in which the song count is low but the body count is high, this twist–filled, often violent drama centres on the police…
Koma (2004)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Angelica Lee
- The attractive Lee plays a feckless young woman with kidney problems who gets caught up in a scandal involving a gang of organ thieves.
This…
Matando Cabos (2004)
- Dir. Alejandro Lozano
Feat. Tony Dalton, Ana Claudia Talancon, Pedro Jr. Armendariz
- Energetic Mexican 'farce of errors' in which two teenagers kidnap a coldly ruthless businessman, not realising he is also a coveted prize for a…
Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo
- Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
One Night in Mongkok (Wong gok hak yau) (2004)
- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung
- A bespectacled 'Mainland' Chinese man is recruited for the assassination of a triad boss in the lusciously seedy Hong Kong district of Mongkok, but…
Operation Valkyrie (Stauffenberg) (2004)
- Dir. Jo Baier
Feat. Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Hardy Kruger…
- Highly credible Germanic take on the failed 'Valkyrie' plot to assassinate Hitler favors sobering realism over Hollywood heroism. Made for German…
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
- Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…