Gangster Squad (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A chronicle of the Los Angeles Police Department's fight to keep East Coast Mafia out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Inseparable / Xing ying bu li (2011)
Drama | Thriller
A troubled young man, Li faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. Chuck, rescues Li from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor. But who is Chuck really?
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu, Beibi Gong, Ni Yan, Peter Stormare, Kenneth Tsang, Mo Zhang
Director: Dayyan Eng
The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
Action | Thriller
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "the world's greatest treasure".
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Lance Henriksen, Nicole Sherwin, Alexis Zibolis, Jason S. Gray, Elvis Naumovski, Antonio Jaramillo
Director: Peter Mervis
Pawn (2013)
Crime | Thriller
An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next – and what happened just before – will change everything you think you know. The building is now surrounded. There are restless fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Common, Marton Csokas, Sean Faris, Stephen Lang, Ray Liotta, Nikki Reed, Forest Whitaker
Director: David A. Armstrong
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Horror | Thriller
Jill Johnson, a babysitter terrorized through phone calls by a psychopath 7 years ago, gains the help of a dedicated detective to find the killer once and for all when he returns.
Starring: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst
Director: Fred Walton
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Popular high school senior Virginia Wainwright survives a freak accident, but suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. As she attempts to resume a normal life, something terrible is happening – her friends are ruthlessly murdered one-by-one.
Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Lisa Langlois
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Terror Tract (2000)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him only to be killed by his spouse and her boyfriend in which she begins having dreams of her husband not staying dead. The second story "Bobo" involves increasing fear and paranoia from a kindly family man whose young daughter finds and adopts a stray monkey who turns out to be more than meets the eye. The third story "Come To Granny" involves a trouble teenager with psychic abilities who visits a therapist to warn her that she happends to be the next victim of a vicious serial killer called The Granny.
Starring: John Ritter, David DeLuise, Allison Smith, Kim Correll, Kelli Mix
Director: Lance W. Dreesen, Clint Hutchison
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Conned (2010)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
The Boston Underworld is too small for all of them. And there's only one big prize left. It's about to go under. All the smart operators have gone to jail, and all that's left behind are the eccentric whacks and nut jobs deemed unworthy of being put behind bars. From Napolitano who runs the North End with the belief that every room is bugged, to Mr. Million, who is so insecure he needs constant reassurance, to a rampant gang that can't take directions from anyone, simply because they can't hear a single thing- their preferred method of communication is sign language which leaves everyone asking, just what is going on? Out of this melting pot of eccentric and dysfunctional criminals, ambitions arise and inevitably clash. With less and less up for stake, there is a sense of urgency for everyone to grab what they can and make a run for it before the underworld is shut down for good. As time runs out, attention turns to the biggest horse race which everyone knows is fixed, but just what…
Starring: Wallace F. Carlson III, John Cleary, John P. McGinty, Rosa Vazquez
Director: Arthur Luhn
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Transsiberian (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
U.S. couple, Roy and Jessie, decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On their way, they meet another couple from the West, Carlos and Abby, with whom they quickly form a familiar bond that often unites fellow travellers away from home. When Roy accidentally gets separated from the group at a stopover, Jessie begins to realize that their compatriots aren't exactly who or what they seem to be. The real danger begins to surface as a deceitful Russian detective and locals terrorize Jessie in this unforgettable journey.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Brad Anderson
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Action | Thriller
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Talisa Soto, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Miguel Sandoval
Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Contract Killers (2008)
Action | Thriller
Retirement doesn't come easy for a beautiful female assassin in 'Contract Killers'. And when the government makes the mistake of framing her for murder, she shows just how she is as a human weapon.
Starring: Frida Farrell, Nick Mancuso, Rhett Giles, Christian Willis, G. Anthony Joseph, Steve Boergadine, Wolf Muser, Lee Sherman, Paul Cram, Justin Smith
Director: Justin Rhodes
Harodim (2012)
Thriller
Lazarus Fell, a former naval intelligence officer trained in black ops and tasked with tracking down the most wanted Terrorist in the world, has gone rogue, realizing his mission has been inexplicably compromised by his own chain of command. As a result, Lazarus has faked his own death, forsaken his life, his family and all that matters to him in the world, to continue his solitary pursuit. But he has personal motivations as well, believing his father, Solomon Fell, Chief of Operations for the Office of Naval Intelligence, was killed in the attacks of 9/11 the event masterminded by the selfsame Terrorist…
Starring: Peter Fonda, Michael Desante, Travis Fimmel
Director: Paul Finelli
YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Horror | Thriller
In this indie horror offering from writer-directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, a small team of explorers heads into the New Hampshire wilderness to investigate an unexplained disappearance that happened some 70 years earlier. No one knows why the residents of Friar made a collective decision to leave their homes — without their money, their clothes or a word about where they'd gone. But the truth could be stranger than fiction.
Starring: Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Laura Heisler, Lee Wilkof, Clark Freeman
Director: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton
The Third Man (1949)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime–and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hoerbiger
Director: Carol Reed
Secret Defense / Secret défense (2008)
Thriller
Shows the recruitment and training of a young female Secret Service operative alongside a parallel story about how an unlikely but deadly young male terrorist is created.
Starring: Vahina Giocante, Gérard Lanvin, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Aurelien Wiik, Simon Abkarian, Rachida Brakni, Mehdi Nebbou
Director: Philippe Haïm
Psycho (1998)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marion Crane steals a lot of cash from a man whom her boss is in business with. On the way to see her boyfriend, she stops off by an old motel, run by the odd Norman Bates. She is murdered in the shower. Her sister, boyfriend, and a private investigator try to find out where she is, while we learn more about Norman Bates.
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Gus Van Sant
Psycho III / Psycho 3 (1986)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosy journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin, Lee Garlington
Director: Anthony Perkins
Psycho II / Psycho 2 (1983)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
Director: Richard Franklin
Tower Block (2012)
Thriller
The last remaining residents of a run-down London tower block find themselves targeted by a deadly sniper, in this tense British thriller written by James Moran. When they witness the brutal murder of a youth in their block, Becky (Sheridan Smith) and the other remaining residents on the 12th floor keep quiet, fearing retribution. One year later, and with the police investigation stalled, they awake one morning to find all communications to the outside world cut. Panic quickly spreads through the group when they begin to be picked off by an unknown sniper with a high-tech rifle, who prevents anyone from escaping the building, and shoots anything that moves. As the situation becomes ever more desperate, the group join together to try and find a way out. But with booby traps at every exit, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone will make it out alive.
Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Brown, Russell Tovey
Director: James Nunn, Ronnie Thompson
Grotesque / Gurotesuku (2009)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
A story of fear and torture so disturbing it's been banned in multiple countries. An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival. Horrifying, shocking, and sickening, Grotesque is an examination of the most twisted aspect of human nature, as well as a test of intestinal fortitude.
Starring: Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
