Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Rebellion (2011)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi…
- A proficient, airtight geopolitical thriller from dir. Kassovitz, who also stars as the captain of a counterterrorist division sent to New Caledonia…
Resident, The (2011)
- Dir. Antti Jokinen
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace…
- Entirely watchable chiller has Hilary Swank suspecting she may not be alone in her new apartment. Produced by the revived "Hammer" label, Christopher…
Retreat (2011)
- Dir. Carl Tibbets
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Jamie Bell
- Unnerving thriller with a couple recovering from tragedy on a secluded island who have their mourning interrupted by a bloodied soldier claiming a…
Revenge (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe
- A high society soap opera served cold, this juicy page turner outlays the elaborate revenge plot of a blonde femme fatale (VanCamp) determined to…
Scott & Bailey (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Rupert Graves…
- A tough–minded and level–headed female policier in the spirit of CAGNEY & LACEY (with shades of PRIME SUSPECT), framed around the private…
Shadow Line, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Hugo Blick
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall…
- This quality BBC production builds a compelling and morally complex story around the death of a convicted drugs smuggler, whose murder is…
Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows (2011)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace…
- Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively in this high–wire sequel to Guy Ritchie's blockbuster…
Silence, The (Das letzte Schweigen) (2011)
- Dir. Baran bo Odar
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Katrin Sass, Wotan Wilke Möhring
- German thriller set in 2009, 23 years after the unsolved rape and murder of an 11–year old girl, when a remarkably similar crime attracts the…
Skin I Live In, The (2011)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…
- Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
Sleepless Night (2011)
- Dir. Frederic Jardin
Feat. Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier…
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…