Get The Gringo (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A career criminal named Driver is nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Changing Lanes (2002)
Drama | Thriller
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self absorption and a spark of anger will cause the two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changes forever. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck star in a provocative and gripping drama that exposes the best and worst in all of us.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
Director: Roger Michell
Just Cause (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's no question he caught the right man–and no last-minute intervention is going to keep that cold-blooded killer out of the electric chair. Someone is the mastermind of a deadly game… and all roads lead back to the site of that long-ago murder–where, this time, there are two intended victims.
Starring: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris
Director: Arne Glimcher
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Shallow Grave (1994)
Crime | Thriller
When faced with a unique challenge, the relations among three young friends are changed forever. In the process, their veneers of privilege and breeding give way to what lies behind: greed, deceit and evil.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Colin McCredie
Director: Danny Boyle
The Pacifier (2005)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Family | Thriller
The film is the story of an undercover agent who, after failing to protect an important government scientist, learns the man's family is in danger. In an effort to redeem himself, he agrees to take care of the man's children only to discover that child care is his toughest mission yet.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot, Lauren Graham, Faith Ford, Chris Potter
Director: Adam Shankman
I Am Legend (2007)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable… and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City… and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by "the Infected" – victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days scavenging for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the Infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville's every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But his blood is also what The Infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time.
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cellular (2004)
Crime | Thriller
A random wrong number on his cell phone sends a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save a woman's life. With no knowledge of Jessica Martin other than her hushed, panicked voice on the other end of the tenuous cell phone connection, Ryan is quickly thrown into a world of deception and murder on his frantic search to find and save her.
Starring: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, Jessica Biel, Richard Burgi, William H. Macy
Director: David R. Ellis
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Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
When Max Peterson receives a series of mysterious cell phone messages that promise him untold wealth, he soon finds himself the victim of a deadly international plot. Chased by a lethal team of government operatives, Max races across the planet in a desperate attempt to unravel a conspiracy that threatens the stability of the entire world.
Starring: Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Shane West
Director: Greg Marcks
Impostor (2001)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An engineer creates the ultimate weapon in a battle against aliens, only to be suspected as an alien himself.
Starring: Shane Brolly, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Gary Fleder
Armageddon (1998)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A low earth orbit space station is in the middle of a repair mission with the space shuttle when an unforeseen meteor shower obliterates them both. This sudden event sends fireballs hurtling to Earth and scientists scurrying to telescopes. An amateur astronomer is the first to spy a gigantic fireball headed towards the planet and notifies NASA. Turner informs the president of the asteroid and describes it as being "the size of Texas," a planet-killer. With eighteen days to impact, NASA frantically tries to find a solution but ends up turning to an outside contractor. Harry Stamper and his team of oilmen are called upon to save the planet as only they can.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton
Director: Michael Bay
Charade (1963)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American woman through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Director: Stanley Donen
Brainstorm (1983)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two scientists, Michael and Karen Brace are developing a virtual reality system that sends sensory inputs into the brain and can record sights, sounds, feelings, and even dreams. The military attempts to take over the project when a senior worker begins to die of a heart attack and uses the system to tape the experience. They will do anything to get it.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jason Lively
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Outland (1981)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Law and order on the wild frontier: 600 million miles from home. Io. The innermost moon of Jupiter. Into this terrible tomorrowland walks Federal District Marshall William T. O'Niel, alone in the pursuit if truth.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, Clarke Peters, Steven Berkoff
Director: Peter Hyams
16 Blocks (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
From Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner comes "a hard-to-beat thriller" (Gene Shalit, Today/NBC-TV). Bruce Willis hits the mark as Jack Mosley, a broken-down New York City police detective assigned to escort a petty criminal (Mos Def) from the precinct to the courthouse. The seemingly simple 16-block journey becomes a test of character fro them when Jack's ex-partners attempt to stop them.. Its' the gripping story of how two men change each other during a tense 118-minute struggle between life and death.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander
Director: Richard Donner
Nightfall / Da zhui bu (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When a Hong Kong celebrity is found brutally murdered, his body floating in the middle of the ocean, hardheaded detective Lam is called in to take charge of the investigation. As Lam zeroes in on a killer from the past, the murder appears to be a straight forward case of revenge. But the more that Lam pursues his suspect, the deeper he falls into a web of lies. To find the truth, Lam must dig into a 20 year-old case for answers, the one link tying the suspect to the celebrity. But in doing so, Lam will uncover a dark secret so shocking, it will turn the investigation upside down. Who is the victim and who is the killer? Just as Lam believes he has everything figured out, he will discover that there's a fine line between love and hate.
Starring: Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Shawn Dou, Mike Leeder, Chia Hui Liu, Janice Man, Kay Tse, Michael Wong
Director: Chow Hin Yeung
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The Aggression Scale (2012)
Action | Horror | Thriller
When out-on-bail mob boss Bellavance discovers that $500,000 of his money is missing, he sends four hardcore hit men to send a "loud and messy" message to the suspected thieves' families. But when the killers invade the Rutledge home, they'll meet the household's emotionally disturbed young son Owen. Owen has a history of violent behavior, knows how to make lethal booby-traps and is about to teach these thugs some deadly lessons in extreme vengeance.
Starring: Ray Wise, Dana Ashbrook, Derek Mears, Fabianne Therese, Jacob Reynolds
Director: Steven C. Miller
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Lockout (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Joseph Gilgun, Vincent Regan, Lennie James
Director: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
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Coma (1978)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
sAfter one of her patients goes into a coma after a routine operation, Dr. Susan Wheeler investigates. She learns that several otherwise healthy patients have met the same fate and then been sent away to a mysterious institute. But when she tells her doctor boyfriend about what she has found, he finds the story hard to believe.
Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark
Director: Michael Crichton
Spawn (1997)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Five years after he was murdered by his own colleagues in a covert government operation, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected so that he may see his wife Wanda once more. In return for the favor, the devil requires, in typically Faustian fashion, that Simmons lead Hell's Army for the destruction of humankind. Blessed in life with extraordinary killing skills, Simmons is even more deadly with the backing of his new master and the changling powers he has at his disposal. As he begins to discover and exercise his new strengths, he encounters two figures who direct him to use his powers in order to serve two different agendas. Cogliostro encourages Spawn to fight the devil and become a new champion for humankind, while Clown goads Spawn into continuing to serve his new master and lead the Armageddon.
Starring: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Hitman (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Based on the top-selling, award-winning videogame franchise, the Hitman is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. His hallmarks are a lethal grace, unwavering precision, and resolute pride in his work. But even 47 couldn't anticipate a "random equation" in his life of exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman. The Hitman is a mysterious and complex man of profound contradictions: He was bred from the world's deadliest criminals, but raised by an exiled brotherhood of the Church. His very existence seems to be a sin, but he wages a quiet war to rid the world of evil. He's brilliant, charismatic and charming – yet reveals little about himself, has no name, and is known only by the last two digits of a barcode tattooed on the back of his head.
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen
Director: Xavier Gens
