Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke…
- The dir. of TRAINING DAY spins this heavy–handed multi–narrative around three burnt out NYC cops at the end of their tether. Posturing…
Case 39 (2009)
- Dir. Christian Alvart
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper
- Rene Zellweger plays a determined social worker assigned to protect a 10–year–old girl from abusive parents, who turn out to be far…
Code, The (2009)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hardy…
- Routine heist film with Freeman playing a veteran thief who recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to…
Cry of the Owl, The (2009)
- Dir. Jamie Thraves
Feat. Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, James Gilbert…
- Middling adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel with Considine playing a troubled voyeur who strikes up an unlikely relationship with the object of…
Cult, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Renato Bartolomei, Latham Gaines, Danielle Cormack…
- A group of brainwashed cult members are desperate to escape the mysterious compound and its deranged leader they're imprisoned by in this ambitious…
Daybreakers (2009)
- Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill…
- Inventive take on the vampire genre has a world populated with the fanged undead facing a food shortage with the human population rapidly dwindling.…
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The (2009)
- Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston
- Nominally another addition to the flavorless torture genre, this ransom drama centred on the abduction of a millionaire's daughter by two…
Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
- Dir. Jeff Beesley
Feat. Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley
- Revenge yarn based on a Stephen King short story sees Christian Slater play the titular Dolan, a crooked slimeball begging for punishment after he…
Double Hour, The (La Doppia Ora) (2009)
- Dir. Giuseppe Capotondi
Feat. Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo…
- A high–concept, twisty Euro–thriller plays out after a chambermaid and an ex–cop meet at a speed dating event.
As is par for the…
Duplicity (2009)
- Dir. Tony Gilroy
Feat. Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson…
- Power–dressed by Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, this is a smart, playful conundrum of a spy thriller that proves great fun to unravel, as…