Money Talks (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Starring: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Paul Sorvino
Director: Brett Ratner
Speed 2: Cruise Control / Speed II (1997)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
Starring: Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Colleen Camp, Mike Hagerty
Director: Jan de Bont
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert, investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard's relationship with his girlfriend, Kay, deteriorates, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine, a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Kirshner, Fiona Shaw
Director: Brian De Palma
Tokarev (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Peter Stormare, Danny Glover, Elena Sanchez, Judd Lormand
Director: Paco Cabezas
Deranged / Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother whom he keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse.
Starring: Roberts Blossom
Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
Smoked (2012)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Three stoner buddies throw a house party that ends in flames after two thugs burn the house down. Now in debt and desperate, the three concoct a half-baked plan to rob a medical marijuana club while posing as police officers. Unfortunately, this club is secretly owned by a drug kingpin who dispatches the feared Four Horseman thugs to kill them. This pursuit sends a wave of violence across Oakland as the assassins off hippies, ninjas, naked clowns, and just about anyone who stands in their way.
Starring: Jamie DeWolf, Jack Frost, Abdul Kenyatta, Rupert Estanislao. Jaylee Alde, Asher Kennedy
Director: Joshua Staley, Jamie Dewolf
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All About Lily Chou-Chou / Riri Shushu no subete (2001)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Osawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Izumi Inamori, Yû Aoi, Kazusa Matsuda, Ryô Katsuji
Director: Shunji Iwai
Buttwhistle / Samaritan (2014)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Ogden Confer is a community college student living with his parents and dealing with the recent loss of his best pal, Rose, when he foils the suicide effort of a mysterious young lady, Beth, who proceeds to make him pay for not minding his own business.
Starring: Trevor Morgan, Elizabeth Rice, Analeigh Tipton, Adhir Kalyan, Stella Maeve, Thomas Jane
Director: Tenney Fairchild
Child of God (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
Starring: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Scott Haze
Director: James Franco
Zulu / Cape Town Cops (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in sprawling areas of un -and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs, both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult when the corpses of two young women are found.
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Tanya van Graan, Natasha Loring, Roxanne Prentice
Director: Jérôme Salle
Playing God / Playing Hero (1997)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dr. Eugene Sands, an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip -but lethal- mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem…and growing far too close to the mobster's seductive mistress.
Starring: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare, Gary Dourdan
Director: Andy Wilson
Oxygen (1999)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband. Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Starring: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton, Laila Robins, Terry Kinney, Paul Calderon, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Shepard
Frauen ohne Unschuld / Wicked Women / Women Without Innocence (1978)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Spending her holidays on the Swiss/Italian border, Margareta (Lina Romay) meets charming Sandra Mauro (Monica Swinn) and her husband.
Starring: Lina Romay, Muriel Montossé, Michael Maien, Esther Studer, Monica Swinn, Peggy Markoff
Director: Jesús Franco
Batman: Gotham Knight / Batman Anime (2008)
Action | Animation | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Batman: Gotham Knight is a fresh and exciting new entry into the Batman mythos, spinning out of a 40-year history in animation including the Emmy-winning Batman: The Animated Series, widely considered a pivotal moment in American animation. A cross section of distinguished creators, award winning producers, and acclaimed writers weave six interlocking stories that reveal Bruce Wayne's journey to Dark Knight, each with stylish art from some of the world's most revered animation visionaries.
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Gary Dourdan, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra, Ana Ortiz, Brian George
Director: Yasuhiro Aoki, Futoshi Higashide, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroshi Morioka, Shoujirou Nishimi
The Following (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll escaped from death row, the FBI called former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, uncovered that Carroll was covertly communicating with a network of followers while in prison. Challenged with the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll, the FBI quickly learned that they were up against not one, but a cult of killers.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Valorie Curry, Natalie Zea, Jessica Stroup, Sam Underwood , Connie Nielsen
Creator: Kevin Williamson
The Following (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll escaped from death row, the FBI called former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, uncovered that Carroll was covertly communicating with a network of followers while in prison. Challenged with the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll, the FBI quickly learned that they were up against not one, but a cult of killers.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Valorie Curry, Natalie Zea, Nico Tortorella, Kyle Catlett, Annie Parisse
Creator: Kevin Williamson
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When investigative reporter Rowena Price learns that her friend's murder might be connected to powerful ad executive Harrison Hill, she goes undercover with the help of her associate, Miles Hailey. Posing as Katherine, a 'temp' at Hill's ad agency, and Veronica, a girl Hill flirts with online, Rowena surrounds her prey from all sides, only to discover that she isn't the only one changing identities. The closer Rowena gets to finding the truth, the more we see how far people will go to protect it.
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow, Gary Dourdan, Florencia Lozano
Director: James Foley
Discopathe (2013)
Crime | Fantasy | Horror
The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.
Starring: Christian Paul, Jérémie Earp-Lavergne, Sandrine Bisso, Ivan Freud, Mathieu Lepage, Katherine Cleland, François Aubin
Director: Renaud Gauthier
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) was an average teenage girl who was the target of terrifying demonic forces that would ultimately shock a town and torment her soul. But was she, as many believed, possessed? In an attempt to clear the clergymen who exorcised Emily, a skeptical attorney (Laura Linney) awakens to the discovery that powerful spiritual forces may actually exist. This harrowing film unfolds like a recurring nightmare form which there is no waking.
Starring: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore
Director: Scott Derrickson
S.I.S. Unidad Especial de Investigación / S.I.S. Special Investigation Section / SIS (2008)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When LAPD elite cop Billy Beckett is traumatized by his partner's death, Joseph Armstrong recruits him for his secret Special Investigation Squad, an elite quartet which gets a very free hand to hunt down and eliminate some of the worst criminals which would escape justice. Despite colleague Gabriel's suspicion and a reporter who hired a private detective to expose their 'police abuse', he proves his value in the fight against ruthless gangster Vic, who sacrifices even his weakling brother for a major diamond robbery.
Starring: Christina Cox, Peter Stebbings, Keith David, John Billingsley, GQ, Domenick Lombardozzi, Martha Millan, Matt Nable, Michael B. Silver
Director: John Herzfeld
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