Crows Zero / Kurôzu zero (2007)
Action | Thriller
Follows Genji, who's wish is to outdo his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, in everything the old man achieved. His first goal is to become top dog at the scariest school in town, Suzuran High School.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Takayuki Yamada, Sansei Shiomi, Ken'ichi Endô, Gorô Kishitani
Director: Takashi Miike
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it – a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Jonathan Demme
The Human Stain (2003)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
Escapee (2011)
Horror | Thriller
A psychology student is targeted by a violent, mentally ill patient during a class field trip, and when the patient escapes the hospital, he tracks her andher friends down during a terrifying electrical storm that has them trapped in an old house.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Faith Ford, Christine Evangelista, Melissa Ordway, Danny Nucci, Kadeem Hardison
Director: Campion Murphy
Fright Night (1985)
Comedy | Horror | Thriller
For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charlie's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money…
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale, Stephen Geoffreys
Director: Tom Holland
Chemistry (TV Series 2011- )
Drama | Thriller
As the saying goes — opposites attract — but that is just the tip of the connection between Liz and Michael. Liz is the cop; Michael, the corporate lawyer. They come from different worlds: the ivy-league world of a law firm where Michael is engaged to the boss's daughter, and the gritty world of the LAPD, where Liz is a hardboiled cop on the beat.
Starring: Jonathan Chase, Ana Alexander, Ragan Brooks, Jeremy Kent Jackson, Sally Kellerman, Chad Everett, Asante Jones
Creator: Richard Christian Matheson, Norman Steinberg
Warehouse 13 (TV Series 2009-2014)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After saving the life of the President in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S Secret Service agents are whisked away to a covert location in South Dakota that houses supernatural objects that the U.S. Government has collected over the centuries. Their new assignment: retrieve some of the missing objects and investigate reports of new ones.
Starring: Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Eddie McClintock, Genelle Williams, Allison Scagliotti, CCH Pounder, Aaron Ashmore
Creator: Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote
The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Quiet (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.
Starring: Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan
Director: Jamie Babbit
Se7en / Seven (1995)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Lt. William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement, Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and grotesquely creative. He is known as John Doe and he is the most vicious serial killer alive, fashioning murders based on the seven deadly sins. As each new victim is discovered, the detectives must combine their collective experiences to track the trail of a killer bent on seeking attrition for society's sins.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Director: David Fincher
Red (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Shark Night (2011)
Horror | Thriller
Seven friends who are spending a weekend at a lake house discover the waters are infested with sharks.
Starring: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
Director: David R. Ellis
20 Funerals (2004)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After a fellow Officer's funeral, 4 Cops decide that the only way to get rid of the criminal element is to stop arresting the criminals, and start burying them.
Starring: Brett Claywell, Brandon Hardin, Tyhm Kennedy, Anthony Lawson, Mark Mench, D.J. Naylor, J.R. Rodriguez
Director: Anghus Houvouras
Intruder (1989)
Horror | Thriller
It's 10 p.m. the night before Walnut Lakes neighborhood supermarket closes its doors forever. The owners and night crew have a long shift ahead of them – longer than they think. Weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew start dying, one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
Starring: Elizabeth Cox, Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks
Director: Scott Spiegel
Futureworld / Future World (1976)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two reporters, Tracy and Chuck, get a message from a third one who discovered something about "Futureworld" and becomes killed before he could tell anyone about it. They visit Futureworld to find out what he knew.
Starring: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner, John P. Ryan, Stuart Margolin, Allen Ludden
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Sugarhouse (2007)
Crime | Thriller
Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. D is a young crackhead. He is smart and witty yet desperate. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a "deal" with the energetic, volatile drug addict. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when psychotic local crime lord Hoodwink (Andy Serkis) wakes to find his snub nose gun missing.
Starring: Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis, Adam Deacon, Ted Nygh, Tolga Safer, Ade
Director: Gary Love
Arena / Deathgames (2011)
Action | Thriller
David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Katia Winter, Daniel Dae Kim, Johnny Messner, James Remar
Director: Jonah Loop
Off Limits / Gardiens de l'ordre (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
During a night patrol that goes wrong, Simon and Julie, two ordinary police officers, injure a young executive who has shot dead one of their team members for no reason. Wrongly accused of a blunder and dismissed by their superiors, they decide to prove their innocence by carrying out an investigation into the drug responsible for their attacker's mad outburst.
Starring: Cécile De France, Fred Testot, Julien Boisselier
Director: Nicolas Boukhrief
Contagion (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Illustrates the worst case scenario of a global viral pandemic from multiple points of view, as ordinary people become severely ill and must be cared for by their loved ones, and harried doctors struggle to contain the disease.
Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard
Director: Steven Soderbergh
