Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Infernal Affairs 3 (Mou gaan dou III) (2003)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Leon Lai…
- Actual sequel to the hit Hong Kong gangland–cop thriller attempts valiantly to tie up loose ends, both picking up where corrupt cop Ming (Lau)…
- Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
- A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…
- Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko…
- A surprise arthouse hit about a couple of teenage brothers who are taken on a mysterious trip by their estranged and rather surly father, with his…
- Swimming Pool (2003)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance
- A beguiling psychological thriller, in which a British mystery–novelist (Rampling) travels to her publisher's holiday house in rural France for…
- Tais Toi! (Ruby and Quentin) (2003)
- Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Jean Reno, Andre Dussollier…
- Another reliable entertainment from the writer–director of THE CLOSET and THE DINNER GAME, this screwball crime comedy boasts a central comic…
- Who Killed Bambi? (Qui a tué Bambi?) (2003)
- Dir. Gilles Marchand
Feat. Laurent Lucas, Catherine Jacob, Sophie Quinton
- French thriller set in an eerie hospital where people are mysteriously disappearing, following a nursing student and a doctor as they try to catch…
- A Snake of June (2002)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Asuka Kurosawa, Yuji Kohtari, Shinya Tsukamoto…
- Intriguing neo–noir psychodrama from uncompromising Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto (yes, he of the notorious TETSUO films), about a suicide…
- And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte…
- A smooth exercise in self–satire from dir. Lelouch, with Jeremy Irons playing a shifty jewel–thief who hooks up with lounge–singer…
- Angela (2002)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Donatella Finocchiaro
- A solid, if oblique drama depicting the doings of the 1980s Sicilian Mafia as seen through the eyes of mob–wife Finocchiaro.
Although…
- Chaos (2002)
- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot
- A witty French thriller where, through a chance meeting, a middle–class woman comes to the rescue of an Algerian–born prostitute who is…