Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 722 Films to Buy & Rent
- Match Point (2005)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansson…
- Widely touted as Woody Allen's finest film since the mid–80's, this is also his least characteristic – set in London and entirely…
- Munich (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz…
- Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…
- Proposition, The (2005)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston…
- Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
- Quiet, The (2005)
- Dir. Jamie Babbitt
Feat. Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Martin Donovan…
- A creepy teenage melodrama about an orphaned deaf–mute girl (Belle) who goes to live in suburbia with her godparents (Falco, Donovan) and…
- Separate Lies (2005)
- Dir. Julian Fellowes
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett
- Tense tragedy of manners stars Tom Wilkinson as a complacent lawyer whose young wife (Watson) confesses to being tangled–up in a fatal…
- Sorry, Haters (2005)
- Dir. Jeff Stanzler
Feat. Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez…
- The after–effects of September 11 act as a racially–charged backdrop to this low–budget thriller set on the mean streets of New…
- Syriana (2005)
- Dir. Stephen Gaghan
Feat. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright…
- Fierce and dense exploration of the machinations and consequences of the global oil industry in the form of a multiple–storyline drama (from…
- Tsotsi (2005)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Presley Chweneyagae
- Deserved winner of the 2006 Foreign Language Oscar, this gripping tale of a young homicidal street–thug ('tsotsi') in post–apartheid…
- Two for the Money (2005)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo…
- Set in the world of gridiron betting, this steamy male melodrama has an injured quarterback (McConaughey) tempted into the field of 'sports…
- Where the Truth Lies (2005)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman
- Challenging and kinky mystery drama from dir. Atom Egoyan (EXOTICA), in which a reporter in the 1970s (Lohman) investigates the death by overdose of…