Murder 2 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Starring: Jaqueline Fernandes, Yana Gupta, Emraan Hashmi, Amardeep Jha, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Director: Mohit Suri
Original Sin (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, whore, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin
Director: Michael Cristofer
The Getaway (1972)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside – and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence – from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Director: Sam Peckinpah
The Prey / La Proie (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence for robbery. When he learns that his wife is in financial difficulty he confides in his cellmate, Jean-Louis Maurel, the location of the booty of his last heist. Maurel is due to be released soon and Franck is certain that he can trust him to come to his wife's rescue…
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López, Natacha Régnier, Serge Hazanavicius, Zinedine Soualem, Caterina Murino
Director: Eric Valette
Children of the Corn: Genesis / Children of the Corn VIII (2011)
Horror | Thriller
A young couple tries to free an imprisoned child with catastrophic results.
Starring: J.J. Banicki, Dusty Burwell, Kai Caster, Kelen Coleman, Billy Drago
Director: Joel Soisson
Night Hunt – Die Zeit des Jägers / Försvunnen / Gone (2011)
Thriller
A young woman – Malin (Ledarp) – has recently gone through a family trauma. She decides to leave his hometown and start a new life in a city north. During his long drive, she meets a mysterious man (Bergqvist) that begins persecuting her. Before she knows it, she has been kidnapped – and taken to a basement somewhere in the forests. Does anyone know that she is gone? Will anyone save her? She can only rely on himself if he wants to survive.
Starring: Sofia Ledarp, Kjell Bergqvist, Björn Kjellman, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer
Director: Mattias Olsson, Henrik JP Åkesson
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Pour la peau d'un flic / For a Cop's Hide (1981)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Once a regular cop, Choucas now works as a private investigator, using methods his former colleagues would revile him for. One day, he receives a visit from an old lady, Madame Pigot, who asks him to look into the disappearance of her blind daughter. Choucas accepts the apparently anodyne case but soon finds he may be in for more than he bargained. First he is assaulted by a mysterious stranger and then Madame Pigot is shot dead just before she can give him vital information relating to her daughter. Then, when he is set up for killing a police commissioner, Choucas realises that he has been caught up in a very deadly game of cat and mouse. But who are his opponents and why are they so keen to have him killed…?
Starring: Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Delon
Collision Earth (2011)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When the sun converts to a magnetar for a short time, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit (along with a spaceship exploring it) and set on a collision course for Earth. Can a disgraced scientist manage to use his failed weapon system, Project 7, to save our planet?
Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Diane Farr, Chad Krowchuk, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Adam Greydon Reid, Andrew Airlie, David Lewis
Director: Paul Ziller
1408 (2007)
Horror | Thriller
Horror novelist Mike Enslin believes only in what he can see with his own two eyes. But after a string of best-sellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he has no real proof of life-afterlife. But Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel. Defying the warnings of the hotel manager, the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another best-seller may be imminent, but first he must go from skeptic to true believer-and ultimately, survivor…
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Tony Shalhoub
Director: Mikael Håfström
Extreme Rage / A Man Apart (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sean Vetter and his partner Demetrius Hicks came up on the mean streets of Los Angeles but now work together as DEA agents, fighting a seven-year war to stem the virulent drug pipeline along the US/Mexico border. Dubbed "the gunslingers'" for their tough street tactics, their perseverance pays off when they take down notorious Baja Cartel kingpin Memo Lucero Geno.With Lucero locked away in a maximum security prison, Vetter is finally able to go home to his wife, Stacy, a sanctuary from the harsh realities of his job. But in the wake of Lucero's arrest, a mysterious figure, known only as Diablo, emerges to violently claim the Baja Cartel. And when Vetter and Hicks set their sights on identifying and stopping this dangerous and elusive new player, Diablo makes the fight personal– robbing Vetter of the one person who gives his life meaning–Stacy. With nothing to lose, Vetter pulls out every hidden resource at his disposal to bring Diablo down–including an unlikely alliance with the jailed Cartel boss Lucero. He will stop at nothing to avenge his wife's murder, edging dangerously close to the line between justice and lawlessness, even if it sets him at odds with the police unit to which he has dedicated his life.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors
Director: F. Gary Gray
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Despite being under heavy sedation, Elena tries to make her way out of Arboria, a secluded, quasi-futuristic commune.
Starring: Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry, Rondel Reynoldson
Director: Panos Cosmatos
Lord of War (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chance leads Yuri Orlov to discover his one talent – illegal arms dealing. With his brother's help, he reaches the top of the trade, supplying anyone whose check clears. His skills and quick wits bring him everything he's ever wanted – and help him elude a persistent Interpol agent. But at the peak of his prowess, he discovers his customers might demand more than he can give…and those he's trying to protect could become deadly liabilities.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm, Ethan Hawke
Director: Andrew Niccol
The Hills Have Eyes II / The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Horror | Thriller
What started with the Carter family, clearly didn't end with the Carter family. Some time later, as part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated research camp mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to commence a search and rescue mission into the hills. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill- fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait. And this time, there is an even larger force of evil at work that is intent on the soldiers'' very destruction.
Starring: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander
Director: Martin Weisz
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Horror | Thriller
Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they're stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren't pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.
Starring: Aaron Stanford, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy
Director: Alexandre Aja
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Under Siege 2 / Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Action | Thriller
Maniacal techno-expert Travis Dane hijacks a train and converts it into a command center. He seizes control of a satellite super-weapon and threatens to destroy Washington, D.C., unless his one-billion dollar demand is met. Unfortunately for him, however, Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) happens to be on board, travelling with his niece, Sarah, and is the only man between Dane and the obliteration of three million people.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Katherine Heigl, Everett McGill, Morris Chestnut, Nick Mancuso
Director: Geoff Murphy
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Under Siege (1992)
Action | Thriller
It's not a job. It's an adventure! Steven Seagal comes aboard and comes on strong, combining humor and heroics in a fireball of a movie. The excitement starts when the USS Missouri welcomes aboard musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage. The visitors throw a party, all right. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (JFK's Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Lethal Weapon's Gary Busey), they're really killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except for one man. "I'm just a cook," that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Seagal). Relying on his slam-bang martial-arts skills and equipped with enough hardware to single-handedly wage World War III, Ryback turns the Missouri's deck and below deck areas into guerilla combat zones. All hands ready, action fans!
Starring: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Patrick O'Neal, Colm Meaney
Director: Andrew Davis
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Reykjavik Rotterdam / Reykjavík to Rotterdam (2008)
Thriller
Financial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
Starring: Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
Director: Óskar Jónasson
I Am Number Four (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
John is an extraordinary teen, masking his true identity and passing as a typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to destroy him. Three like him have already been killed … he is Number Four.
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Callan McAuliffe, Kevin Durand
Director: D.J. Caruso
Jumper (2008)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
From the director of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' comes the evolution of extreme – a high-powered shot of adrenaline that stretches the very limits of imagination. David Rice is a young man who knows no boundaries – a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to any place on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into the midst of an ancient war while being hunted by a bloodthirsty band of zealots sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David's extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival. Based on the best selling science-fiction novel by Steven Gould.
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker
Director: Doug Liman
I, Robot (2004)
Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the year 2035, robots are an everyday household item, and everyone trusts them, except one, slightly paranoid detective (Will Smith) investigating what he alone believes is a crime perpetrated by a robot. The case leads him to discover a far more frightening threat to the human race. Inspired by the classic short story collection by Isaac Asimov.
Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride
Director: Alex Proyas
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