Subgenre Sampler
Television > Suspense/Crime: 565 Films to Buy & Rent
- Sherlock - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs…
- Ingenious updating of the master detective finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Benedict…
- Spooks - Season 9 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Richard Armitage, Sophia Myles, Peter Firth
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Nine: eight…
- This is Not My Life (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Charles Mesure, Tania Nolan, Ariana Brunet…
- Set in a fictional New Zealand town in the 2020s, this high–end Kiwi production runs with a number of well–worn science–fiction…
- Thorne (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen…
- Another top–draw British policier loaded with all the usual suspects: atmosphere, plot twists, and a hard–bitten hero, with David…
- 39 Steps, The (2009)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Eddie Marsan, Lydia Leonard
- This BBC adaptation of Buchan’s spy novel struggles with a scriptwriter who can't seem to drag himself away from hip, self–aware 2009…
- Above Suspicion (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Kelly Reilly, Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
- British crime series based on the novels written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT). A rookie female detective, determined to prove herself amidst…
- 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…
- Cult, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Renato Bartolomei, Latham Gaines, Danielle Cormack…
- A group of brainwashed cult members are desperate to escape the mysterious compound and its deranged leader they're imprisoned by in this ambitious…
- Father and Son (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Dir. Brian Kirk
Feat. Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea…
- Gritty, tough–minded BBC serial examines the reverberations of crime across two parallel storylines: a father (Scott), whose wife was murdered…
- 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…