Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 472 Films to Buy & Rent
Tunnel, The (2001)
- Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz
- An extended though by no means deep excavation of German Cold War history, in which an East German swimmer (Ferch) defects to West Berlin in 1961 and…
Crimson Rivers, The (2000)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel
- A bizarre murder in the French Alps draws detectives Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel into the killing–cycle of a particularly grisly…
Dead or Alive 2 (Tobosha) (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
- Understated yet rewarding sequel to the mind–blowing gangster actioner follows on from the 'end of the world' with an unrelated story, with…
Harry, He's Here to Help (With a Friend Like Harry,Who Needs Enemies?) (2000)
- Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas
- French festival–hit that invokes the delicious menace of Alfred Hitchcock with its insidious central character, Harry (Sergi Lopez) who invites…
Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) (2000)
- Dir. Fabian Bielinsky
Feat. Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darín
- An Argentian congame thriller which uses a fresh, edgy setting to bolster its David Mamet–by–way–of–Quentin Tarantino…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
- A middle aged author returns to his native Colombian village to find that it has been overrun by violence and corruption. After his young male lover…
Princess and the Warrior, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente
- Follow–up and companion piece to dir. Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN, is a 'Snow White'–inspired tale of a psychiatric nurse who is hit by a…
Seance (2000)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho
- A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
Tell Me Something (2000)
- Dir. Chang Yoon-Hyung
Feat. Han Suk-gyu, Shim Eun-ha
- A fine slice of Korean “giallo”, this is detective pulp of the lacquered–black, rain–drenched variety, with perverse/macabre…