Category: Thriller
Posted on October 5, 2014 |
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Topkapi (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Jules Dassin
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Posted on October 3, 2014 |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past / X-Men: First Class 2 (2014)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The X-Men, including Wolverine, must set aside old rivalries and travel in time to change the past to avert a future crisis which threatens the mutant population and the world.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page
Director: Bryan Singer
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Posted on October 3, 2014 |
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A Good Marriage / Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014)
Thriller
As a sadistic serial killer is spreading fear across the Northeast, taunting the police as his victims pile up, Darcy Anderson (Joan Allen) and her husband Bob (Anthony LaPaglia) are celebrating another year of a good marriage. But when Darcy unveils a sinister secret about her husband, it threatens their perfect marriage – and lives.
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, Anthony LaPaglia, Will Rogers
Director: Peter Askin
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Mystery Road (2013)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback home town, to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter, who he discovers is connected with the murdered girl, Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back for his town and his people.
Starring: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tasma Walton
Director: Ivan Sen
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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From Paris with Love (2010)
Action | Thriller
A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior- level assignment, he can't believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax – a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back…and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.
Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Amber Rose Revah, Bing Yin
Director: Pierre Morel
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Open Windows (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Nick is excited to discover that he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, her manager Chord makes an offer he can't refuse – the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put both himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse where nothing, and no one are as they seem.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
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Posted on October 2, 2014 |
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Absolute Fear (2012)
Thriller
Jessie Valiquette follows her scribe boyfriend of 3 years Dale Morrow on a search for his long lost Father last heard from on a deserted island in the Philippines. Along with a group of unwitting friends, the young couple encounters more than they bargained for when they discover not only was Dale's father part of a top-secret government project testing the depth of people's fears, but also that he had very good reason for not wanting to be found.
Starring: Stephanie Lemelin, Matthew Alan, Patrick Bergin, A.J. Draven, Caleb Thorne, Miguel Vasquez
Director: John Milton Branton
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Posted on October 1, 2014 |
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Murder, My Sweet / Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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Secret Window / Secret Window, Secret Garden (2004)
Mystery | Thriller
Following a bitter separation from his wife (Bello), famed mystery writer Mort Rainey (Depp) is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter (Turturro). Claiming Rainey has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats – and then murder – Rainey turns to a private detective (Dutton) for help. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Rainey soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything. A shocking psychological thriller from the writer of Panic Room, David Koepp.
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton, Len Cariou
Director: David Koepp
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Little / Watch That Man (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
While visiting his brother in England, Wallace Ritchie attends the "Theatre Of Life," which promises to treat the participant as a character in a crime drama. When Wallace is mistaken for a real spy, he becomes entangled in a plot to kill Russian dignitaries and reignite the Cold War. But for Wallace, it's all an act.
Starring: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James
Director: Jon Amiel
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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Odd Man Out (2014)
Drama | Thriller
After a horrific event, two estranged brothers are forced to face a dark, festering secret when Mike returns after being away for two decades. Now a lifetime of betrayal boils over as Matt and Mike settle their family issues once and for all.
Starring: Chuck Huber, Matthew Tompkins, Shauna McLean, Jonathan Brooks, Angela Chase
Director: Michael Crabtree
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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Persecuted (2014)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with, or profiting from, the girl's murder. It's a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire American Christian community.
Starring: James Remar, Bruce Davison, Dean Stockwell, Fred Dalton Thompson, Gretchen Carlson, Natalie Grant
Director: Daniel Lusko
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Posted on September 30, 2014 |
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Delivery: The Beast Within / Delivery (2013)
Horror | Thriller
In this unnerving chiller, Kyle and Rachel Massy are a young couple who have agreed to document their first pregnancy for a reality show. During the production and after moving to a new home, a series of unexplained phenomena start plaguing the couple, eventually derailing the production of the show. Rachel, growing increasingly paranoid, starts to believe that there might be something seriously wrong with their unborn bundle of joy. Told through the show's un-aired footage and interviews from friends, family and production members, Brian Netto's savvy debut feature injects the found footage genre with a fresh perspective and enough eeriness to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Starring: Laurel Vail, Danny Barclay, Rob Cobuzio
Director: Brian Netto
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Posted on September 29, 2014 |
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Sniper: Legacy / Sniper 5: Ghost Shooter (2014)
Action | Thriller
A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett is informed his father, legendary shooter Thomas Beckett has been killed, Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator. But when his father rescues him from an ambush, Brandon realizes he's a pawn being played by his superiors to draw out the killer. It's up to the two men, bound by blood, to bring an end to the carnage.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Chad Michael Collins, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Don Michael Paul
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Posted on September 29, 2014 |
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Phone Booth (2002)
Mystery | Thriller
A single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance as Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. Directed by Joel Schumacher, this groundbreaking "tightly-made thriller" (Sidekick Magazine) co-stars Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Kiefer Sutherland as the crazed gunman calling the shots, literally.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Tory Kittles
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Posted on September 26, 2014 |
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Vivement dimanche! / Confidentially Yours (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations…
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: François Truffaut
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Posted on September 26, 2014 |
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Good People (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Discovering a cache of cash in their dead tenant's apt, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it.
Starring: James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Friel, Sam Spruell
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
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Posted on September 25, 2014 |
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Supernatural (TV Series 2005- )
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) are two brothers with a special talent. Well-versed in the supernatural after their father became convinced that their mother was captured by unholy spirits, Dean and Sam dedicated their young lives to hunting down these otherworldly terrors. But adulthood saw Sam drift away from these preternatural activities, instead choosing to settle down in a life of domestic bliss with his girlfriend. But when the Winchesters' dad goes missing, both Dean and Sam know what they have to do – leading to some epic cross-country trips as the brothers try to find their father.
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
Creator: Eric Kripke
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Posted on September 24, 2014 |
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The Hunted (2013)
Thriller
Chasing their dream of landing their own hunting show, two hunters head into the dense, secluded mountains of West Virginia only to realize they are not alone.
Starring: Josh Stewart, Skipp Sudduth, Katherine Von Till, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Nikki Deloach
Director: Josh Stewart
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Posted on September 24, 2014 |
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Deep Powder (2013)
Drama | Thriller
When a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from Ecuador for the benefit of her upper crust friends. But when the plan unravels and he becomes the fall guy for their crimes, he is forced to decide how far he will go for the girl he loves.
Starring: Haley Bennett, Shiloh Fernandez, Logan Miller, John Magaro, Dana Eskelson, Josh Salatin, Colby Minifie
Director: Mo Ogrodnik
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