Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Ultraviolet (2006)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), Cameron Bright (X-Men 3), Nick Chinlund (The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subculture of disease modified humans in whom speed, strength and intelligence are magnified. In the film, she must fend off the human government to protect a young boy who has been marked for death.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu, William Fichtner
Director: Kurt Wimmer
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The Double (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a Soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. To hunt down the killer, a retired CIA operative, who spent his career going toe-to-toe with his Soviet nemesis, is teamed with a young FBI agent.
Starring: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen, Stephen Moyer, Odette Annable, Stana Katic
Director: Michael Brandt
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Robert Downey Jr. brings the legendary detective to life as he has never been portrayed before. Jude Law stars as Holmes' trusted colleague, Watson, a doctor and war veteran who is a formidable ally for Sherlock Holmes. Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuous relationship with the detective. Mark Strong stars as their mysterious new adversary, Blackwood. Kelly Reilly will play Watson's love interest, Mary.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
Director: Guy Ritchie
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Horror | Thriller
Three young students from the U.S. taking classes in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from one of their art classes. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along, assuring them they will be able to relax and rejuvenate. Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits?
Starring: Lauren German, Roger Bart, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Richard Burgi
Director: Eli Roth
Hostel (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Paxton and Josh, two college friends, are lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers – a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily… Initially distracted by the good time they're having, the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself – if they survive.
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson
Director: Eli Roth
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Dead Calm (1989)
Drama | Thriller
A thriller involving a couple who have gone on vacation to overcome a personal tragedy and become involved with a dangerous and mysterious stranger.
Starring: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Sharon Cook, Michael Long
Director: Phillip Noyce
Dream House (2011)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Successful publisher Will Atenton quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby, and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived. When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann…
Starring: Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz
Director: Jim Sheridan
Barton Fink (1991)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Barton Fink is a scriptwriter who has become a Hollywood hit. However, he has writer's block, in desperation he turns to his neighbours for help. Fink finds the real-life inspiration he needs from the most sinister of sources!
Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
True Justice: Urban Warfare (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Elijah Kane's (Steven Seagal) city is caught in the crossfire of a gang war between the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, when they attack the dangerous Mexican gang, MS-13, in Seattle and look to flip a profit doing so. While the gangs war on, a single man has taken the financial crisis personally when he holds his neighborhood bank hostage citing they took not only his house, but his life.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie, William Stewart, Sarah Lind, Adrian Hough
Director: Keoni Waxmans
The Big I Am (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Starring: Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan, Michael Madsen, Robert Fucilla, Steven Berkoff
Director: Nic Auerbach
Ghost Rider (2007)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
From Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man, Blade and X-Men, comes a new hero… Ghost Rider. Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) made a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne (Eva Mendes). Now, the devil has come for his due. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider… but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons. Forced to do the devil's bidding, Johnny is determined to confront his fate and use his curse and powers to defend the innocent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Taking Lives (2004)
Mystery | Thriller
Angelina Jolie plays FBI profiler Illeana Scott in this edgy cat-and-mouse thriller also starring Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and Olivier Martinez and directed by D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye,Two for the Money). For 20 years an elusive serial killer has assumed his victims identities. But now theres a breakthrough: Scott is assigned to the case and its her job to know what makes a killer tick. But somehow this killer knows even more about Scott.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez
Director: D.J. Caruso
Collateral Damage (2002)
Action | Thriller
Surging excitement and one-man heroics fuel this powerful action thriller from the director of The Fugitive and Under Siege. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a fireman whose wife and child are killed in a terrorist bombing and who obsessively tracks the mastermind (Cliff Curtis) behind it, from Los Angeles to Colombia to Washington, DC. The fanatic plans to strike again in Washington…but how? When? Where? In the scramble for answers, one thing is clear: Collateral Damage is a ticking time bomb of suspense.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo
Director: Andrew Davis
The Messengers (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
The Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. When those specters become violent, Jess' sanity is questioned – a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Killer Elite (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
An ex-special ops agent is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor. To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader.
Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro
Director: Gary McKendry
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The Tenth Victim / La decima vittima (1965)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized – members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato
Director: Elio Petri
Wild at Heart (1990)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
If Lula knows on thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor – no matter how many times her mama tries to kill him. But when she and Sailor finally hit the road in a desperate bid to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld filled with sexual secrets and dangerous desires that form a terrifying "tapestry of human extremity" (Variety).
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Director: David Lynch
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Have Mercy on Us All / Pars vite et reviens tard (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A strange symbol resembling an inverted 4 appears in the doors of people's houses in Paris, and residents of apartments with unmarked doors are turning up dead. An unemployed man, who reads people's letters and woes in a public park -a "city crier"- begins reading letters announcing the return of the plague. As panic and rumor begin to spread and Parisians start painting the symbol on their own doors to stem the "Black Death" outbreak, Detective Adamsberg and retired professor Decambrais join forces to try solve this mystery.
Starring: José Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet
Director: Régis Wargnier
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Good Morning, Killer (2011)
Thriller
follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
Starring: Catherine Bell, Cole Hauser, Titus Welliver, William Devane, Genevieve Buechner
Director: Maggie Greenwald
