Firestorm / Fung bou (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
'Firestorm' centers on a senior police inspector determined to bring down a violent gang of robbers responsible for a string of violent heists across the city.
Starring: Chen Yao, Ka Tung Lam, Andy Lau, Jun Hu, Shing-Ban Lam, Vincent Sze, Michael Wong
Director: Alan Yuen
Something Good / Something Good: The Mercury Factor / Qualcosa di buono (2013)
Thriller
In a small village in China's Yunnan region, Xiwen (Jingchu Zhang) mourns the sudden loss of her beloved, only child, a young boy poisoned by tainted food. Numbed by the pain, she seeks a reason to live. Although a woman of the highest integrity, she has become hard and uncompromising. Far away in Italy, Matteo (Luca Barbareschi) is a ruthless, high-powered player for Hong Kong-based Feng Multinational, an international conglomerate with many interests around the world … not all of which are above board. Lured by the highly lucrative, international trafficking of adulterated foods, the suave and cynical Matteo has abandoned all scruples and conscience and is well on his way up the underworld corporate ladder. Following a series of cold-blooded successes, he is poised to become CEO of the Feng group when fate abruptly intervenes. Crossing paths with Xiwen, the two instantly share a powerfully undeniable attraction. Tentatively, they begin to see one another, each experiencing feelings they no longer thought possible. Simultaneously, a jealous co-worker tired of living in Matteo's shadow has set into motion a plan to frame him for a triple murder. Still unaware of Matteo's involvement in the very black market trade that killed her son, Xiwen – convinced that he is innocent – compromises her own high standards, lying to police to provide him with an alibi. As Matteo attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders and prove his innocence, his relationship with Xiwen continues to deepen and the emotionally damaged lovers fall deeply in love, providing each other with long-abandoned hope for happiness and a new start. But when the truth is revealed – and amidst the chaos swirling around them – Xiwen must now decide to forsake their love … or to choose a new path together. Inspired by world affairs and headlines on the real-life trafficking of adulterated foods.
Starring: Luca Barbareschi, Jingchu Zhang, Carl Ng, Frank Crudele, Branko Djuric
Director: Luca Barbareschi
Assassination Games (2011)
Action | Thriller
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer's brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye, Valentin Teodosiu, Alin Panc, Kevin Chapman
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Dangerous Minds / My Posse Don't Do Homework (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Based on an incredible true-life story – Pfeiffer is former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, a first-time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough-but-smart inner city students. When conventional methods fail to reach them, the feisty Ms. Johnson tries the unconventional – defying the rules and creating her own curriculum.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde, John Neville
Director: John N. Smith
Crook (2013)
Thriller
In the course of one fateful day, the lives of a drug kingpin, an obsessed cop, a small time dealer and a cunning call girl converge with deadly consequences.
Starring: Adam Beach, Leah Gibson, Jon McLaren
Director: Adrian Langley
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The 13th Unit / The Darkness, Rage and the Fury (2014)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Starring: John Allen Phillips, Lance Aaron, Jenna McCombie, Mandy May, Aidan Bristow, Barry Onody
Director: Theophilus Lacey
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Starring: Michael C. Hall, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: John Krokidas
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury.
Starring: Armin Rohde, Heike Makatsch, Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, William Armstrong
Director: Peter Hyams
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-con attempts to blend into his new surroundings in an Indiana town, but is haunted by a figure from his past.
Starring: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Sam Shepard
Director: Scott Cooper
Rabid Love (2013)
Horror | Thriller
When Heather Ross and her lifelong friends take one final trip out to a cabin in the woods before they go their separate ways after graduating from college, the weekend takes an unexpected turn when people start disappearing. Is one of their own responsible? How about the killer bear that's rumored to be in the woods? Maybe one of the seemingly unstable hunters that have been drawn to the area and are out to get the bear? Join Heather and the gang as they find out where their loyalties truly lie and discover the secrets of the forest that might become a grave for all of them!
Starring: Hayley Derryberry, Jessica Sonneborn, Brandon Stacy, Josh Hammond, Hannah Landberg
Director: Paul J. Porter
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In Fear (2013)
Thriller
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Starring: Alice Englert, Iain De Caestecker, Allen Leech
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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Gilda (1946)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
Casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) orders his right-hand man, Johnny Farrell (Ford), to keep an eye on his beautiful new wife, Gilda (Hayworth). Ballin is unaware, however, that Johnny and Gilda are former lovers who are now full of contempt for one another. When Ballin seemingly dies in a plane crash, Johnny marries Gilda to keep her under his guard, but his scheme doesn't quite go according to plan…
Starring: Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer
Director: Charles Vidor
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Texarkana. Based on a true story.
Starring: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Charles B. Pierce
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Species III (2004)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
While being transported in a military ambulance and supposed dead, Eve delivers an offspring and is killed by a half-breed. The baby girl is abducted by Dr. Abbot, and a couple of days later she grows up, reaching adulthood and becoming a gorgeous young woman called Sara. Dr. Abbot expects to develop a perfect DNA using Sara's eggs and win the Nobel Prize, and invites the student Dean to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. But while Sara unsuccessfully chases a perfect mate for her to generate a perfect being, the flawed half-breeds led by Amelia try to reproduce with her to survive their species.
Starring: Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Sunny Mabrey, Amelia Cooke, John Paul Pitoc, Michael Warren
Director: Brad Turner
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Screamers: The Hunting / Screamers 2 (2009)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
It's been thirteen years since the robotic killing machines known as Screamers destroyed the human population of Sirius 6B. But now a distress signal brings a team of rescuers to the supposedly abandoned planet. Can it be a long lost colony of human survivors? Or have the Screamers evolved into something more sinister…half-man/half-machine hybrids that need to escape Sirius 6B to finish their mission: the complete annihilation of the human race?
Starring: Sheldon Wilson, Greg Bryk, Christopher Redman, Tim Rozon
Director: Sheldon Wilson
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Screamers (1995)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only — to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.
Starring: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer, Charles Edwin Powell
Director: Christian Duguay
Evil Under the Sun / Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Hercule Poirot travels to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi…
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall
Director: Guy Hamilton
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (1978)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?
Starring: Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow
Director: John Guillermin
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Director: Sidney Lumet
Sleeper's Wake (2012)
Thriller
John Wraith, mid-40s, regains consciousness in hospital. His wife and daughter dead in a car accident because he fell asleep at the wheel. To find solace he retreats to a tiny remote coastal hamlet where he comes across a troubled teenage girl, Jackie, struggling to come to terms with the murder of her mother during a vicious robbery at their home. A dangerous physical attraction develops between them. Despite the threat of discovery, they consummate their relationship, with devastating consequences.
Starring: Lionel Newton, Deon Lotz, Jay Anstey, Luke Tyler
Director: Barry Berk
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