Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3179 Films to Buy & Rent
Snowtown (2011)
- Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris…
- Australian serial killer John Bunting is the controversial subject of this disturbing yet persuasively told recreation of the 'scum' murders that…
Son of No One, The (2011)
- Dir. Dito Montiel
Feat. Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Ray Liotta…
- Channing Tatum plays a rookie policeman assigned to the neighborhood of his troubled youth in this excitable crooked cop tale.
Great cast, though…
Spooks - Season 10 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris…
- Concluding episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Ten: six…
Straw Dogs (2011)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard…
- Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 film is bleached, but certainly not bettered in this nasty remake that goes for broke in the violence stakes,…
Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The (TV Mini-Series) (The Murder at Road Hill House) (2011)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi
- Paddy Considine plays famed Scotland Yard inspector Jack Whicher in this fine Victoria era murder mystery; the series' first installment based on the…
Swerve (2011)
- Dir. Craig Lahiff
Feat. David Lyons, Jason Clarke, Emma Booth…
- Tense outback–noir with a hapless witness to a fatal road accident finding himself in possession of a suitcase full of money and bad company.
Take Shelter (2011)
- Dir. Jeff Nichols
Feat. Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham…
- Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young family man questions whether to shelter his wife and daughter from the spectre of a coming storm,…
Texas Killing Fields (2011)
- Dir. Ami Canaan Mann
Feat. Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz…
- Muddled, though distinctly helmed serial killer saga set amid the sticky marshlands of Texas City, where two stone–faced homicide detectives…
Thin Ice (The Convincer) (2011)
- Dir. Jill Sprecher
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup…
- Another predictable, if satisfying tale of frigid small town crooks, with Greg Kinnear as a huckstering insurance salesman who hatches a plan to…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt…
- An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carreās quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…