Sudden Death (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A disgraced former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Gaston, Audra Lindley, Dorian Harewood
Director: Peter Hyams
Graceland (2012)
Crime | Thriller
A desperate father risks everything to save his kidnapped daughter.
Starring: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido De La Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara
Director: Ron Morales
G.I. Joe: Retaliation / G.I. Joe 2 (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Team G.I. Joe is not only fighting for their lives they are fighting for their very existence. Framed for crimes against the country, they are forced to disband by Presidential order. The surviving team members face off against Zartan, Cobra, and the world leaders he has under his influence!
Starring: Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Joseph Mazzello
Director: Jon M. Chu
Jug Face (2013)
Horror | Thriller
Jug Face tells the story of a pregnant teen trying to escape a backwoods community when she discovers that she may be sacrificed to a creature in a pit.
Starring: Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young, Kaitlin Cullum, Larry Fessenden, Daniel Manche
Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Wasteland / The Rise (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Luke Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Timothy Spall) has no doubt in Harvey's part in a foiled robbery, and his subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper. Denying everything, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his release from prison a month earlier, and the malevolent, unjust act that put him in there. We see his emotional reunion with his sibling-like best friends, and the immovable loyalty they have for one another. We see the rekindling of a lost love, a second chance for two people meant for each other. We see the ingenious planning of the ill-fated robbery, the amazing twist, the shocking outcome and the real driving force behind it – retribution. What unfolds is an exhilarating, moving and hilarious story of loyalty, jealousy, friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
Starring: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Timothy Spall, Luke Treadaway, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell, Gerard Kearns
Director: Rowan Athale
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Nor'easter (2012)
Drama | Thriller
After another poorly attended mass, Erik Angstrom, a young priest, is visited by Ellen Greene, the mother of Josh, a child who has been missing for five years. Josh's absence has pushed Ellen's marriage to the breaking point, and though her husband strenuously objects, she and the priest decide to hold a symbolic funeral to help the family move on. But when their decision becomes public, Josh inexplicably returns to the island, alive and well. Now sixteen years old, Josh appears unharmed but refuses to answer questions about where he has been. Erik proves to be the only one able to uncover Josh’s secrets, but in doing so, causes more problems than he could have ever imagined, threatening his relationship to the family, the church, and the law.
Starring: David Call, Richard Bekins, Liam Aiken, Haviland Morris, Rachel Brosnahan, Danny Burstein, Geary Smith, Emory Cohen
Director: Andrew Brotzman
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Trance (2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Danny Boyle helms this psychological thriller about an auctioneer falling foul of a gang of ruthless art thieves. When upmarket art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) double-crosses the gang responsible for the daring daylight robbery of a priceless painting by Goya, he incurs the wrath of the gang's violent leader, Franck (Vincent Cassel). In the aftermath of a beating where he is knocked unconscious, Simon claims to be suffering from amnesia and is therefore unable to remember where the painting is, provoking Franck into hiring female hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth delves ever deeper into Simon's subconscious, the lines between fantasy and reality converge, threatening to consume all as a series of shocking events spiral violently out of control.
Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Danny Sapani, Tuppence Middleton, Simon Kunz
Director: Danny Boyle
Abandoned (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to a staff psychiatrist, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Michael Feifer
The Devil You Know (2013)
Mystery | Thriller
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.
Starring: Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, Dean Winters, Molly Price, Jennifer Lawrence
Director: James Oakley
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Roger Moore as agent 007 teams with a beautiful Soviet agent Triple-X to battle Stromberg in order to save the world from total annihilation and a 315-pound villian, "Jaws".
Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel, Curd Jürgens, Caroline Munro, Walter Gotell, Geoffrey Keen
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Evidence (2013)
Horror | Thriller
A detective hunts down a killer using video footage shot by the victims of a massacre at an abandoned gas station.
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto, Nolan Gerard Funk, Harry Lennix, Dale Dickey, Caitlin Stasey
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
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Conspirators / Tóngmóu (2013)
Crime | Thriller
Two detectives from two different countries investigating the same case. As their investigation brings them closer to the truth, they found out something else. What can it be, and what is the truth that lies within?
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Nick Cheung, Yi Yan Jiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Ah-Niu, Terence Chui, Wai Lam
Director: Oxide Pang
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome / Mad Max 3 (1985)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalypse world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must first survive the town, survive the desert and then rescue the innocent children he has discovered.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Tina Turner, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior (1981)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
In the first sequel to Mad Max, Max lends his aid and protection to a small band of survivors who are losing their struggle to protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage, mohawked marauders.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Virginia Hey, Syd Heylen, Bruce Spence, Emil Minty, Michael Preston
Director: George Miller
Mad Max (1979)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for – revenge!
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
Director: George Miller
M (1931)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who Is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Director: Fritz Lang
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
Starring: Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Billy Green Bush, Royal Dano, Peter Cetera
Director: James William Guercio
The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna (1964)
Drama | Thriller
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone – he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit – meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
De zaak Alzheimer / The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal struggles to perform an act of street justice as he loses control of his faculties in this thriller from Belgium
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Laurien Van den Broeck, Dirk Roofthooft
Director: Erik Van Looy
