Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 473 Films to Buy & Rent
Pusher II (With Blood on my Hands) (2004)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen
- Number two in the Danish thriller PUSHER series tracks a muddled Copenhagen thug fresh from prison who faces the scorn of his gangster father, past…
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…