Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 722 Films to Buy & Rent
- Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris…
- Broadly subversive drama set among the bored US Army Corp guarding West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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- Four Days (2001)
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers…
- This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
- Gosford Park (2001)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith…
- A handsome recital of Agatha Christie–style whodunnit and ‘upstairs–downstairs’ class–drama set in the confines of an English…
- In the Bedroom (2001)
- Dir. Todd Field
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl…
- Both deservingly nominated for Oscars, Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson hardly miss a beat as the middle–aged couple forced to deal with the…
- Invisible Circus, The (2001)
- Dir. Adam Brooks
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston…
- Even–toned, detached political thriller that follows the disappearance of free–spirit Cameron Diaz in the late 1960s and the search by…
- Love the Hard Way (2001)
- Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier
- Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…
- Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
- Murder In Mind (TV Series) (2001)
- Excellent star–studded series of self–contained stories on the theme of murder, generally centered around apparently 'normal people' who…
- Night at the Golden Eagle (2001)
- Dir. Adam Rifkin
Feat. Vinnie Jones, James Caan, Ann Magnuson…
- A grimly satisfying, verbally violent drama set in a fleabag hotel in L.A. where two aging hoods plan their migration to the not–so–mean…
- Prime Gig, The (2001)
- Dir. Gregory Mosher
Feat. Ed Harris, Vince Vaughn, Julia Ormond…
- A soberly played drama–thriller, in which Vince Vaughn is drawn into a shady telemarketing scam operated by philosophising villain Ed…