Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Running Scared (2006)- Dir. Wayne Kramer
Feat. Paul Walker, Chazz Palminteri, John Noble - Flashy, hopped–up mob thriller has New Jersey foot–soldier Paul Walker assigned to conceal a snub–nosed revolver, a gun used in a…
Beat My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) (2005)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai… - A star–turn by Romain Duris invigorates this deft remake of James Toback's 1978 thriller FINGERS, playing a reluctant young thug with a…
Crime Novel (Romanzo criminale) (2005)- Feat. Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria…
- Novel–based Italian crime drama concerning a group of small–town crims who went on to become Rome's most merciless crime family and a…
Election (2005)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Simon Yam, Tony Leung (Kar-fai) - A terrific gangland power tussle from genre exponent Johnnie To, this combative suspenser embarks on the shady underworld of triad politics in…
Secuestro Express (2005)- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Mia Maestro, Ruben Blades - Venezuela comes off second best in this exploitative thriller peddling the country's professional kidnapping trade, where a couple of wealthy young…
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…
Dead Fish (2004)- Dir. Charley Stadler
Feat. Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle, Jimi Mistry… - The stock British gangster flick gets yet another working over: Gary Oldman plays a hitman who crosses paths with various motley individuals,…
Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo - Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
One Night in Mongkok (Wong gok hak yau) (2004)- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung - A bespectacled 'Mainland' Chinese man is recruited for the assassination of a triad boss in the lusciously seedy Hong Kong district of Mongkok, but…
Bookies (2003)- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook… - Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
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