Red Corner (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
An American businessman finds himself charged with murder and thrown headlong into China's nightmarish legal system in this tense thriller that was filmed covertly in Beijing for a week without government approval.
Starring: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Byron Mann, Ken Leung
Director: Jon Avnet
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Drama | Thriller
"Moody" is an Iranian doctor living in America with his American wife Betty and their child Mahtob. Wanting to see his homeland again, he convinces his wife to take a short holiday there with him and Mahtob. Betty is reluctant, as Iran is not a pleasant place, especially if you are American and female.
Starring: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Georges Corraface, Sarah Badel
Director: Brian Gilbert
Run All Night (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An aging hitman is forced to take on his brutal former boss to protect his estranged son and his family.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nick Nolte, Bruce McGill, Genesis Rodriguez
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
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Reaper (2014)
Crime | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A death row inmate survives his execution and returns as a supernatural force known as the "Reaper", an unholy creature that descends upon an unsuspecting town. This mysterious community is full of drifters and criminals (Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones) who must now band together to defeat the "Reaper" or perish into the depths of hell.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones, Jake Busey, Shayla Beesley
Director: Wen-Han Shih
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The Badger Game (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A chronic philanderer falls victim to an extortion scheme when he is abducted by four masked strangers demanding retribution for his sins.
Starring: Augie Duke, Patrick Cronen, Jillian Leigh, Sam Boxleitner, Sasha Higgins, Marc Siciliani, Josh Eichenbaum, Aria London
Director: Joshua Wagner, Thomas Zambeck
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Shade (2003)
Crime | Thriller
The hand is quicker than the eye in LA's underground gambling scene, hustlers get hustled and fortunes ride on every deal. Three small-time grifters devise a plan to beat the ultimate card mechanic – The Dean. But a seat at The Dean's table doesn't come cheap. Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II), Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday), Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama) and Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land) star in this stylish film where quick maneuvers and shady alliances keep you guessing until the last hand is revealed.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jamie Foxx, Sylvester Stallone, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Melanie Griffith
Director: Damian Nieman
Bless the Child (2000)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
A nurse raising the daughter of her troubled sister learns the girl has supernatural power and must protect her from evil forces hoping to harness it. She is aided by an FBI agent.
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Christina Ricci, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Ian Holm
Director: Chuck Russell
Desperate Measures (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch: the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Shamus Wiles, Erik King
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Chappie (2015)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Chappie tells the story of a robot imbued with artificial intelligence who is stolen by two local gangsters who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Watkin Tudor Jones, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Hugh Jackman
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Bats (1999)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Swarms of genetically altered bats blaze a path of terror through a sleepy Texas town. The only hope to stop the growing tide of devastation is a zoologist who studies bats, her assistant, and the local sheriff.
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon
Director: Louis Morneau
Heaven's Burning (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
While honeymooning in the land Down Under, reluctant Japanese bride Midori decides to free herself from an arranged marriage by faking her abduction. Ironically, she soon ends up as a hostage thanks to a botched bank holdup. That is, until the getaway driver intervenes and rescues her. The chase is on as the duo attempts to elude the cops, the crooks and Midori's humiliated spouse.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Yûki Kudô, Kenji Isomura, Ray Barrett, Robert Mammone
Director: Craig Lahiff
Survivor (2015)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Emma Thompson
Director: James McTeigue
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Unfreedom (2015)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
In New York arrives a violent and angry man imprisoned by his brutal past, Mohammed Husain. His mission – to kidnap and kill a peaceful Muslim scholar, Fareed Rahmani. On the other side of the world, , Preeti Gupta, Bhavani Lee, Ankur Vikal, Seema Rahmani Singh, a homosexual girl in New Delhi, kidnaps her bisexual lover, Sakhi Taylor. Her mission – to marry her lover and live happily ever after. In a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom, four characters, in two of the world's largest cities, come face to face with most gruesome acts of torture and violence. The choices they make when they are most cornered in life, expose the blemished reality of contemporary world.
Starring: Victor Banerjee, Adil Hussain, Bhanu Uday
Director: Raj Amit Kumar
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The Unwanted / Carmilla (2014)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
In this Southern Gothic retelling of Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story 'Carmilla,' a young drifter (Christen Orr) arrives in a rural town seeking the whereabouts of the mother she never knew. When she becomes sexually involved with an emotionally fragile waitress (Hannah Fierman), she exposes the secret of her mother's disappearance and incites the wrath of the girl's overprotective father (William Katt).
Starring: Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Director: Bret Wood
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Powder (1995)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as Powder struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do extraordinary things.
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith, Bradford Tatum
Director: Victor Salva
Targeting (2014)
Drama | Thriller
A female soldier returns from Afghanistan and begins running surveillance on an Afghan person-of-interest that she learns is living in her hometown.
Starring: Tajana Prka, Bobby Naderi, James O'Shea, Fereshta Kazemi, Brooke J. Ferrell
Director: Tarique Qayumi
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From Beijing with Love / Gwok chaan Ling Ling Chat (1994)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
Hong Kong comedy icon Stephen Chiau stars in this wild and wooly parody of 007 spy thrillers. Ling Ling-chat (Chiau) leads a double life, living both as a modest street vendor in Beijing and a suave international spy. When a priceless dinosaur skull is swiped from China, a rogue criminal known only as "The Man With the Golden Gun" is the prime suspect. Ling is called away from dispensing pork products and sent to Hong Kong to investigate. There, a paid assassin named Siu-kam (Anita Yuen) has Ling in her sites. Yet Ling's utter stupidity and dumb luck makes him seeming invincible and she switches sides. When the duo return to China, Ling realizes that his real enemy is none other than his boss.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen, Kar-Ying Law
Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee
Scarlet Innocence / Madam Ppang-Deok (2014)
Romance | Thriller
Shaken by a scandal, literature professor Ha Kyu leaves Seoul for the peace of teaching in a small town. He meets the young and trusting Deok Yi and they develop an intimate affair, a relationship that the devoted Deok Yi takes far more to heart than he does. When Ha Kyu is reinstated to his university position, he leaves Deok Yi behind and returns to Seoul and his family. Eight years later, Hak Kyu is gradually going blind and Deok Yi reappears in his life looking for revenge.
Starring: Woo-sung Jung, Esom, So-young Park
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
Who Is Undercover / The King of Brand / Wang pai (2014)
Drama | Thriller
Five women have been arrested and kept in a prison because one of them is suspected to be "Ace," a core figure in the resistance movement. As the five women are tortured and played against each other for the identity of "Ace," a resistance fighter risks his life to rescue the women from captivity.
Starring: Chiling Lin, Tony Leung, Gillian Chung, Vivian Wu, Meng Tingyi, Christopher Lee, Kent Cheng
Director: Jianhui Fan
Matthew 18 (2014)
Thriller
The upcoming film release is both thought provoking and engaging in its story line as its theme centers around the subject of African American culture, what goes on in the grassroots of the church community and even within the households and fabric of the culture. Matthew 18, the film, explores the spiritual world as it impacts the natural world in the format of a dramatic thriller.
Starring: Jennifer Jayleen Martinez, Luenell, Faizon Love, Maureen Kurtz, Cherie Frazier, Markaja Cooper, Isis De Oliveira, Darrick Mosley
Director: Roy Belfrey
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