Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 722 Films to Buy & Rent
- About Elly (2009)
- Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Feat. Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti…
- Though something of a dress rehearsal for Farhadi's Oscar–winning A SEPARATION, this tense and absorbing account of a beach holiday tainted by…
- Balibo (2009)
- Dir. Robert Connolly
Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Nathan Phillips…
- Searing political thriller based on the death of five Australian–based journalists (one, a Kiwi) who, upon covering the occupation of East…
- Breaking Bad - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke…
- The dir. of TRAINING DAY spins this heavy–handed multi–narrative around three burnt out NYC cops at the end of their tether. Posturing…
- Fortapasc (Fort Apache) (2009)
- Dir. Marco Risi
Feat. Libero de Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino…
- Poignant account of the last days in the life of a young Italian journalist who's investigations into the Neapolitan Mafia resulted in his murder.
- Glorious 39 (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, David Tennant…
- Trademark Stephen Poliakoff visuals and upper crust intrigue characterise this pre–WWII mystery, starring Romola Garai as the adoptive daughter…
- Good Wife, The (TV Series) (2009-2016)
- Feat. Julianne Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles…
- First–rate, Golden Globe–winning series about a politician's wife who must return to the workforce after a sex and corruption scandal…
- Hurt (2009)
- Dir. Barbara Stepansky
Feat. Melora Walters, William Mapother, Johanna Braddy…
- Desert set indie–horror is a more thoughtful entry in the burgeoning 'demon child' canon with Melora Walters as a mother trying to hold the…
- Incendiary (2009)
- Dir. Sharon Maguire
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Thriller set in the aftermath of a terrorist strike in London, based on the novel by Chris Cleave. Though it boasts a typically fine Michelle…
- Leaves of Grass (2009)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss…
- Stoner comedy for the philosophically inclined with Edward Norton pulling double duty as an Ivy League professor lured back to his Oklahoma hometown,…