Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3064 Films to Rent
- Girl Who Played with Fire, The (2009)
- Dir. Daniel Alfredson
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
- Part two of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium Trilogy' sees the return of touch–as–nails Lisbeth Salander, who must clear her name of murder…
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
- One of the highest–grossing foreign language hits at the NZ box office, this riveting, full–bodied Swedish thriller follows an escalating…
- Glorious 39 (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, David Tennant…
- Trademark Stephen Poliakoff visuals and upper crust intrigue characterise this pre–WWII mystery, starring Romola Garai as the adoptive daughter…
- Godspeed (2009)
- Dir. Robert Saitzyk
Feat. Joseph McKelheer, Courtney Halverson, Cory Knauf…
- Heavy–handed themes dog this otherwise vivid Alaskan thriller, in which a small–time preacher experiences a crisis of faith in the…
- Good Wife, The (TV Series) (2009-2016)
- Feat. Julianne Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles…
- First–rate, Golden Globe–winning series about a politician's wife who must return to the workforce after a sex and corruption scandal…
- Harry Brown (2009)
- Dir. Daniel Barber
Feat. Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles…
- Michael Caine plays a disgruntled ex–serviceman who takes the law into his own hands when the drug and gang problem within his neighborhood…
- High Life (2009)
- Dir. Gary Yates
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Rossif Sutherland
- Well–executed crime caper has four laughable lowlifes hatch a plan to rob a series of ATM machines, only for their moronic, stoned–out…
- Horsemen, The (2009)
- Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci…
- Blood–soaked biblical thriller from dir. Akerlund (better known for his Lady Gaga music videos), with Dennis Quaid as a grizzled detective…
- Hurt (2009)
- Dir. Barbara Stepansky
Feat. Melora Walters, William Mapother, Johanna Braddy…
- Desert set indie–horror is a more thoughtful entry in the burgeoning 'demon child' canon with Melora Walters as a mother trying to hold the…
- I'm Not Harry Jenson (2009)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson
Feat. Gareth Reeves, Ian Mune, Marshall Napier…
- Tensely conceived, enterprising Kiwi thriller finds a true crime novelist so deeply invested in the violent subject of his latest book, that he…