Subgenre Sampler
Hostages & Terrorism: 229 Films to Buy & Rent
- Vantage Point (2008)
- Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid…
- Tipsy, time–swapping political thriller cribs liberally from RASHOMON and TV–terrorist heart–stopper 24 in congealing multiple…
- Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
- Dir. Morgan Spurlock
Feat. Morgan Spurlock
- With his first baby on the way, SUPER SIZE ME’s Morgan Spurlock decides to go off in search of the world’s most wanted criminal, learning more…
- 24 - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, Maria Bello
- Tantalising thriller centred on a couple whose idyllic existence is shattered when their daughter is kidnapped by a man (Brosnan) with increasingly…
- Dark Matter (2007)
- Dir. Shi-Zheng Chen
Feat. Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Liu Ye
- Inspired by real events, this dramatisation of a brilliant Chinese science student's psychological downfall at an Iowan university is a mostly…
- Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard) (2007)
- Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long…
- Bruce Willis returns as hardass action copper John McClane, taking on a plugged–in, post–9/11 terrorist cell in this fourth addition to…
- Extraordinary Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Jim Threapleton
Feat. Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni, Ania Sowinski
- Topical, slightly underdone small–budget political thriller tracks a forward thinking UK teacher who is abducted and brutally tortured in an…
- Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007)
- Dir. Xavier Gens
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan
- Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
- He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
- Dir. Frank A. Cappello
Feat. Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy
- With his best role in donkey's years, Christian Slater stars in this bleakly satirical drama as a frustrated loner who decides to take out his anger…
- Hunting Party, The (2007)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, James Brolin…
- Action–packed serio–comic political thriller in the spirit of THREE KINGS centres on the shaggy dog story of an intrepid trio of…