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
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
