Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Confessional, The (1995)
- Dir. Robert Lepage
Feat. Lothaire Bluteau, Kristin Scott Thomas
- A man searches for lost relatives and missing pieces of family history, somehow linked to the making of Hitchcock's 'I Confess' in Quebec, 1953; past…
- Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
- Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka
- An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
- L'Amour Molesto (Wounded Love) (1995)
- Dir. Mario Martone
Feat. Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Gianni Cajafa…
- Filial difficulties between mother and daughter act as the centre of gravity for this Italian mystery that matches its edgy storyline with a…
- L'Appartement (The Apartment) (1995)
- Dir. Gilles Mimouni
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Romane Bohringer, Monica Bellucci
- Chic Parisian thriller lifts a few motifs from VERTIGO, but adds more than a few original flourishes.
Vincent Cassel is about to settle down with…
- La Ceremonie (Judgement in Stone, A) (1995)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
- Veteran new–wave director Chabrol takes this HEAVENLY CREATURES–ish tale of the unholy synergy between two women, adds some class theory,…
- La Haine (Hate) (1995)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui…
- A distinctive French urban crime drama in which the idle hands of male youth form fisticuffs on mean urban streets. A whole lot punchier, intelligent…
- Patriotes, Les (1995)
- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Yvan Attal, Richard Masur, Allen Garfield…
- Disillusionment erodes the ideals of a young Frenchman who emigrates to Israel to train for a career in their intelligence division. Its astute focus…
- Inspector Rex (TV Series) (1994-2004)
- Feat. Tobias Moretti
- Austrian TV series, with a sizable cult following around the world (especially in Australia), in which a lone policeman and his German Shepherd…
- Machine, La (1994)
- Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
- Gerard Depardieu goes into mad–doctor mode for this high–tech mind–transplant thriller, as a shrink/inventor whose fleeting…
- Nightwatch (1994)
- Dir. Ole Bornedal
Feat. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- A student (Nikolaj Waldau) takes a job as nightwatchman in a morgue so he can swat for his exams, but is dragged into trouble by an unruly companion…