Category: Thriller
Posted on September 30, 2013 |
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Dirty Harry (1971)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough, streetwise San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money-alone. What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch
Director: Don Siegel
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Posted on September 30, 2013 |
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Posted on September 29, 2013 |
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Burn Notice (TV Series 2007-2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay! When Michael receives a "burn notice", blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in order to survive. Fully loaded with sly humor, Burn Notice is a fresh spin on the spy genre with plenty of precarious twists to keep you guessing and enough explosive action to keep you riveted!
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Coby Bell
Creator: Matt Nix
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Posted on September 29, 2013 |
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Horror | Romance | Thriller
A platoon of eagles and vultures attack the residents of a small town. Many people die. It's not known what causes the flying menace to attack. Two people have managed to fight back, but will they survive the Birdemic?
Starring: Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore, Colton Osborne, Patsy van Ettinger, Rick Camp
Director: James Nguyen
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Posted on September 28, 2013 |
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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, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins
Creator: Eric Kripke
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Posted on September 28, 2013 |
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The Vampire Diaries (TV Series 2009-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Teen | Thriller
As the school year begins, Elena Gilbert is immediately drawn to a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a vampire struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality.
Starring: Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice Accola, Zach Roerig, Michael Trevino, Nina Dobrev, Steven R. McQueen, Matthew Davis
Creator: Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
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Tags: Candice Accola, Ian Somerhalder, Julie Plec, Kat Graham, Kevin Williamson, Matthew Davis, Michael Trevino, Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Steven R. McQueen, Zach Roerig
Posted on September 28, 2013 |
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Run for the Money / Hard Cash (2002)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Fresh out of prison, Thomas Taylor (Christian Slater) assembles a team of outlaws to pull off his most brilliant heist yet. Alas, the stolen money is marked, enabling FBI agent Mark Cornell (Val Kilmer) to swiftly track down Taylor & Co. But the corrupt agent is not interested in making an arrest: Using his knowledge of Taylor's guilt as leverage, the wily agent coerces the crooks into engineering an even bigger robbery, this time targeting a high-profile riverboat casino.
Starring: Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Sara Downing, Vincent Laresca, Balthazar Getty
Director: Predrag Antonijevic
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Posted on September 27, 2013 |
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Zombie Hunter (2013)
Action | Thriller
Post-apocalyptic zombie horror starring Danny Trejo and Martin Copping. After a new drug has turned the majority of the world's population into zombies with an appetite for human flesh, Hunter (Copping) travels the country behind the wheel of his car getting drunk and tracking down the undead. When an accident results in his vehicle coming off the road, he awakens confronted by another band of survivors led by Father Jesús (Trejo) and decides to join them while they look for a secure site to set up camp. But with hordes of the undead and grotesque mutants on the prowl for living flesh, the group will have to put everything they have into succeeding…
Starring: Martin Copping, Clare Niederpruem, Danny Trejo, Jade Regier, Jason K. Wixom
Director: Kevin King
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Posted on September 26, 2013 |
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SPEC: Heaven / Gekijouban SPEC: Ten (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Saya Toma (Erika Toda) is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
Starring: Erika Toda, Ryo Kase
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Posted on September 26, 2013 |
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The Getaway (1994)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader Nix. 13 years ago Nix was calmed down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a populary illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. Short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over. And it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour…
Starring: Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Joseph Latimore, Sheila Tousey, Susan Traylor
Director: Clive Barker
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Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Shield of Straw / Wara no tate (2013)
Action | Thriller
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states "Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000 yen as a reward." Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins…
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Ohsawa, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu, Kento Nagayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Hirotarô Honda
Director: Takashi Miike
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Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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New Police Story / Xin jing cha gu shi (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Massive explosions and incredible stunts abound as Jackie Chan makes what many refer to as a comeback with this Chinese release. He plays the burned-out Inspector Wing, whose motivation died when the rest of his police team was wiped out at the hands of a wily and brutal new gang. When, against the odds, a rookie cop rouses the weathered Inspector to go after the gang, however, there is no stopping him until justice has been served.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Dave Wong, Andy On, Terence Yin, Rongguang Yu, Coco Chiang, Tony Leung
Director: Benny Chan
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Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Police Story II / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap (1988)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
His personal war against crime has earned Kevin Chan a demotion from detective to traffic cop just as Hong Kong is hit with a wave of bomb scares. Chan unofficially follows up his own leads and tracks down the bombers, but not before his girlfriend is abducted.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Police Story / Ging chat goo si (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A police raid on a drug gang goes awry, and for detective Kevin Chan, nothing seems to go right from there. Even when the gang boss is brought to trial, he is acquitted when Kevin's evidence disappears from under his nose. His attempt to rescue a beautiful but reluctant key witness results in Kevin being wanted for murder and on the run from both the gang and his own squad. To bring the gang to justice he has to find the evidence and the witness–and stay alive long enough to convince his colleagues of his innocence.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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Only God Forgives (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this violent, Thai-set revenge thriller directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian (Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local prostitute, and is then slain in retribution, Julian's mother Jenna (Scott Thomas) arrives in the city demanding that he track down the killer and mete out revenge. After learning that the man responsible is a retired police officer and lone dispenser of justice known as 'The Angel of Vengeance' (Vithaya Pansringarm), Julian, confident of success, sets out to find him, little realising what he has taken on.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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Curse of Chucky / Child's Play 6 (2013)
Horror | Thriller
Nica is grieving over the gruesome suicide of her mother when her domineering older sister Barb arrives with her young family in tow to help settle their mother's affairs. As the sisters butt heads over Nica's plans for the future, Barb's young daughter comforts herself with a grinning, red-haired talking doll named Chucky that recently arrived mysteriously in the mail. A string of brutal murders begins to terrorize the household and Nica suspects the doll may hold the key to the bloodshed. What she doesn't know is that Chucky has a personal score to settle. He's determined to finish a job he started more than 20 years earlier, and this time he's going to see it through to the bloody and shocking end.
Starring: Fiona Dourif, Brad Dourif, Danielle Bisutti, Chantal Quesnelle, Maitland McConnell
Director: Don Mancini
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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4Closed (2013)
Thriller
When a young family moves into a foreclosed home, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
Starring: James Denton, Christina DeRosa, Jamie Kennedy, Marlee Matlin, Paul Sorvino
Director: Nick Lyon
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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I Against I (2012)
Crime | Thriller
Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite in character, take a frantic journey into a desolate nocturnal world with the common aim of survival, though once completed, the plot reveals a trap from which escape may be impossible. Taking influence from films like 'Le Samurai', 'Point Break', and new Asian noir, the film is a modern homage to hard boiled cinema with its own original take.
Starring: Kenny Doughty, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Mark Womack, Sónia Balacó, John Castle
Director: Mark Cripps, David Ellison, James Marquand
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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New Order (2012)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 2033, three years prior an infection, a virus, or a bacteriological attack wiped out almost 90% of the global population. Cities are no longer a safe place to live, rotting corpses are spreading new diseases. A city called New Birth City was set up by what's left of global government and military, a place where humanity could survive and search for a cure. The research was headed by two Oxford professors, two years after the out break one of the professors died leaving Dr Cornelius Van Morgen (Franco Nero), a world renowned biologist to continue the research. Dr Cornelius Van Morgen choose five people from among the survivors and puts them up in an old country house where his deceased colleague had set up a research laboratory. Working with the notes his research partner has left behind and observing the five survivors Dr Cornelius Van Morgen continues his desperate search for a cure or vaccine. The five survivors Thomas James (David Wurawa),Alice Molina (Margherita Remotti),Robert Lloyd (James Kelly),Mark Scott (Federico Rossi),Betty Duval (Tatiana Luter)wear body scans that allow/help Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen to observe his test subjects, gather medical and neurological information and record their daily events with the hope of making a break through in finding some-sort of answers. Before long the five survivor's brain waves begin to display extraordinary neurological activity that allow them to have paranormal powers, with fatal consequences…
Starring: Franco Nero, David Wurawa, Margherita Remotti
Director: Marco Rosson
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