Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
- Dir. Fernando Mierelles
Feat. Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmano da Hora, Phellipe Haagensen
- An incendiary Brazilian drama depicting two decades of blood–drenched rivalry between two youth gangs who control a slum area of Rio De…
- Code, The (La Mentale) (2002)
- Dir. Manuel Boursinhac
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan
- Convincingly gritty crime drama set in the drab outer zone of Paris' apartment estates and trailer parks, with a recently paroled hood (Le Bihan)…
- Demonlover (2002)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny…
- An insinuating future–shock Euro–thriller, with Connie Neilsen as an attractive corporate executive caught in the…
- Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
Imbued with a…
- El Bonaerense (2002)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
- An authentically macho tale about the notoriously clannish and corrupt police force of Buenos Aires (members are known as 'el Bonaerense') which…
- He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A la Folie pas du Tout) (2002)
- Dir. Laetitia Colombani
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan
- A slyly–structured tale of adultery which uses the ambiguous qualities of actress Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) to deliver some thrilling…
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Anthony Wong…
- This dynamic cops ‘n’ robbers spectacle is populist Hong Kong film–making at its most slick and sophisticated.
Infused with more than a…
- Inner Senses (Yee do hung gaan) (2002)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Maggie Poon
- A loner psychologist (Cheung) falls for a suicidal woman he is treating for her constant, gloomy visions of the dead, in this stylish Asian riff on…
- Kaante (Thorns) (2002)
- Dir. Sanjay Gupta
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty
- From a new generation of Bollywood film–making comes a kinetic heist picture, shot and located in LA in which six Indian suspects plot a…
- L'Homme du Train (Man on the Train) (2002)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday
- An elegantly amusing role–switching tale that's equal parts social comedy, existential drama and subtle thriller, tinged with melancholy…