Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A happy couple with a seemingly perfect life has their daughter abducted. Over the course of a day, the kidnapper dismantles the family's lives with brutal efficiency.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler
Director: Mike Barker
Body Heat (1981)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that echoes 1940s film noirs but is charged with an energy and passion that could only flare in the '80s. Aided by a sultry John Barry score, Kasdan's assured directorial debut foreshadowed the emotional textures he would bring to later films The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist and Grand Canyon. Sit back and bask in this contemporary classic's wicked warmth.
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Traitor (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative — or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Aly Khan
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
The notorious Gecko Brothers, two of the U.S. most dangerous criminals, are on the run from the Texas police and the FBI after a crime spree through the Southwest. Across the border in Mexico, the mysterious Carlos offers sanctuary to criminals on the lam, but first they must slip past the border patrol. Enter the Fuller family: Jacob, a minister who has lost his faith and his children, the vulnerable teenage Kate and her younger brother Scott, on a road trip in their new R.V. The Gecko Brothers kidnap the Fullers and high-tail it to freedom with the promise to let the family go once they hook up with their criminal connection in Mexico. The rendezvous point is the Titty Twister, the wildest bar this side of the Rio Grande. The night is full of seductive promise as the group settles back to wait for Carlos and his boys to arrive at sunrise. But unbeknownst to the brothers or their hostages, the management and staff of this particular establishment have a taste for blood–in the literal sense.
Starring: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Superhero Movie (2008)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller | Sci-Fi
After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker develop superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as "The Dragonfly." However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers. After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person's life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, "The Hourglass." With unimaginable strength, unbelievable speed and deeply uncomfortable tights, will the Dragonfly be able to stop the sands of The Hourglass and save the world? More importantly, will we stop laughing long enough to notice?
Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner
Director: Craig Mazin
The Ward / John Carpenter's The Ward (2010)
Horror | Thriller
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Starring: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Jared Harris, Danielle Panabaker, Lyndsy Fonseca
Director: John Carpenter
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Horror | Thriller | Crime | Mystery
When Leon Kaufman's latest body of work–a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants–earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff, she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space. Believing he's finally on track for success, Leon's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany, the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters–ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. With his concerned girlfriend Maya fearing for his life, Leon's relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil–inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
The Stepfather (2009)
Horror | Thriller | Mystery
When a teenager returns home from military school, he begins to suspect his mother's new boyfriend is not the charming man he appears to be in this riveting, psychological thriller.
Starring: Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard, Sherry Stringfield
Director: Nelson McCormick
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
Director: David Lynch
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed. Hard- hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post- apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only to uncover a shocking secret that will bring the entire world to its knees. Eye-popping action and mind-blowing science fiction clash head-on in this hard-edged thriller, where the only rule is survival.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Red Eagle / Insee dang (2010)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Year 2016, Bangkok is a rotten capital infested with chaos and criminals. Widespread corruption by politicians has dipped the moral compass to a new low, and the government's hasty plan to construct a nuclear power plant has spread fears among villagers and enivironmental activists. Amidst the mood of despair, a hero emerges. He goes after filthy politicians and vile criminals, handing out his own brand of justice when the law fails to fuction. No one knows his true identity. Every time he kills, he leaves a name card which says: The Red Eagle. But Red Eagle is a hunter who's also being hunted. An assassin, called Black Devil, has been sent by a crime lord to kill him. As his past returns to haunt him, the tortured hero is facing a conflict that will decide not just his own destiny, but the destiny of his entire nation.
Starring: Ananda Everingham, Pornwut Sarasin
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Red Planet (2000)
Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller | Adventure
In the mid-21st century, the nations of a dying Earth look starward for a solution and set out to colonize Mars. But something no one could have expected awaits. Houston, we have big trouble. Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore star in this taut adventure about humankind's first mission to the mysterious Red Planet. Also on the mission is the multifunctional robo-assistant AMEE. In one mode, she's a as loyal as a puppy. But a malfunction has locked her into a far different mode: a killing machine bent on destroying the crew. Yet that's not the end of the expedition's perils. Because Mars may be barren, but it's not uninhabited.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker
Director: Anthony Hoffman
Blitz (2011)
Thriller
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Starring: Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen
Director: Elliott Lester
Total Recall (1990)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can "remember" visiting the red planet that is now being settled by human inhabitants. However, Quaid is actually an amnesiac secret agent from Mars – or is he?
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside
Director: Paul Verhoeven
The Italian Job (2003)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
The plan was flawless. The job was executed perfectly. The escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker never saw coming was from a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang–inside man Steve, computer genius Lyle, wheelman Handsome Rob, explosives expert Left-Ear and veteran safecraker John Bridger–can't believe it when one of them turns out to be a double crosser. Now the job isn't about the payoff, it's about payback! Enter Stella, a beautiful nerves of steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in L.A. history!
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham
Director: F. Gary Gray
Flightplan (2005)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, Kyle Pratt (Foster) finds herself at odds with an unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in a desperate search find the truth about her daughter.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby
Director: Robert Schwentke
Aeon Flux / Æon Flux (2005)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
400 years in the future, after a virus decimates the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity – except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, a secret agent/assassin/warrior whose mission is to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that jeopardize the mission – and her life.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand
Director: Karyn Kusama
Matrimony / The Matrimony / Xin zhong you gui (2007)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Rene Liu, Songzi Xu
Director: Hua-Tao Teng
Rambo / Rambo IV (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been twenty years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. But it's time now for Rambo to take up arms once more and mete out his own, unique, brand of justice.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Rambo III / Rambo: First Blood Part III (1988)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
When Col. Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy. this intense, heart-pounding adventure boasts unrelenting action and suspense from start to finish.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focas
Director: Peter MacDonald
