Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 472 Films to Buy & Rent
Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (2004)
- Dir. Cedric Kahn
Feat. Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet
- A married couple bicker in a holiday traffic–jam, fueled by the husband's drunken irritability and his wife's haughty disregard, leading them…
Walk on Water (2004)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
- An arresting drama based on the obsessive efforts of an Israeli Mossad hitman –in grieving over his wife's suicide – to search for and…
World Without Thieves, A (Tian xia wu zei) (2004)
- Dir. Feng Xiaoning
Feat. Andy Lau, Rene Liu
- Two thieves resolve to go straight, only to become entangled in high–stakes plot aboard a long haul train.
Starring the ever–watchable…
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
- Dir. Hardy Martins
- Based on the novel by Josef Martin Bauer, this film recounts the harrowing true story of Clemens Forell, the German POW who escaped a Siberian labour…
Blind Shaft (2003)
- Dir. Yang Li
Feat. Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Baoqiang Wang
- Chinese crime drama set in the brutal world of illegal coal mining.
Follows two struggling coal miners who are running a side hustle in which they…
Carandiru (2003)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
- An expressionist series of tales set within the notorious titular prison in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as seen through the eyes of a benevolent doctor and…
Dot The I (El Punto sobre la I) (2003)
- Dir. Matthew Parkhill
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy, Natalia Verbeke
- A skillfully moody London romance, in which the relationship of an engaged couple is disturbed by a pre–wedding ritual in which Verbeke must…
Ginji The Slasher (2003)
- Dir. Takeshi Miyasaka
Feat. Riki Takeuchi
- Low profile suspenser, set around a recalcitrant swordsman who goes on the rampage in post–WW2 Japan and 50 years later is released to start…
Good Morning, Night (2003)
- Dir. Marco Bellocchio
- A dramatisation of events surrounding the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 by The Red Brigades, as seen through the…
I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) (2003)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia…
- Atmospheric thriller from dir. Gabriele Salvatores that deftly conveys a foreboding childhood experience during a long, hot summer in the country,…