Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 722 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
- Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
- A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…
- The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
- People I Know (2002)
- Dir. Daniel Algrant
Feat. Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal…
- A NYC publicist personally and professionally crashing helps out a high–profile client and ends up trapped in a warren of drug fuelled scandal…
- Quiet American, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Rade Serbedzija
- True to the spirit of Graham Greeneās novel, this cautionary tale of American interference in 50s French Vietnam is an involving,…
- Relative Evil (Ball in the House) (2002)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn…
- Deceptively marketed as a kind of "wicked stepmother" thriller, this is instead a well–constructed, paranoid black comedy about a teenage…
- Spun (2002)
- Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo…
- A cinematically exhilarating depiction of existence among a group of methamphetamine (P) addicts in Los Angeles, that is sure to divide audiences as…
- Ted Bundy (2002)
- Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Michel Reilly Brooke
- For those not wearied of the serial–killer genre, this is a memorable portrait of America’s first acknowledged specimen, Ted Bundy…
- Wire in the Blood (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Robson Green, Hermione Norris, Simone Lahbib
- Terrific tough–as–nails UK detective show focused on a compassionate clinical psychologist (Green) and an ambitious Detective Inspector…
- Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…
- Tough, patient HBO TV policier (from David Simon, creator of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) follows the Baltimore drug scene from both the police and…
- Without a Trace (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Television crime drama from the Jerry Bruckheimer stable (see also CSI) that traces the investigations of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad, led by the…