Batman Returns (1992)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Set at Christmastime, Gotham City and its holiday celebrations are under siege by the Penguin and a group of circus freaks. Things can't get worse when the Catwoman appears.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
Batman (1989)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Adventures of the caped crusader, stressing the relationship between the Batman and his adversary The Joker.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle
Director: Tim Burton
The Flock (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The paranoid registrant administrator of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage is forced to an early retirement due to his abusive behavior against the sex offenders that he should monitor, and shall spend his last eighteen days training his replacement Allison Lowry. When the seventeen years old Harriet Wells is considered missing in his area of work, Errol is convinced that her disappearance is related to one of his parole sex offenders. However, his superiors do not believe on his investigations and he convinces Allison to follow him in the sick underworld of pornography and perversions trying to find the missing girl.
Starring: Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland, Ray Wise, Russell Sams, Avril Lavigne
Director: Wai-keung Lau
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Day The Earth Stood Still depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves–or else. After being shot at by military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C. hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world's leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience and her inquisitive son. Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message and the government's witch hunt for the alien.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Nea, Hugh Marlowe
Director: Robert Wise
Valkyrie / Walküre (2008)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Tom Cruise stars in the true story of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten
Director: Bryan Singer
The Unjust/ Boo-dang-geo-rae (2010)
Crime | Thriller
A series of unsolved murders puts a nation into a panic. Soon, the murders become a political matter and the president intervenes. When the prime suspect dies after a wild chase, the investigations hit a dead end. Investigator Choi senses that this case might be his chance to make something of his career. He strikes a deal with his old mentor Jang to arrest the next best suspect at whatever cost.
Starring: Jeong-min Hwang, Seung-beom Ryu, Hae-jin Yu, Sae-Beauk Song, Ho-jin Jeon
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Street Fighter (1994)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When General M. Bison (Raul Julia) takes high-ranking hostages and demands $20 billion in ransom, he pushes an already incendiary crisis to the brink of global conflict. Meanwhile, Colonel William F. Guile's (Jean-Claude Van Damme) rescue mission remains stalled until the hostages' location can be determined. Guile and his British intelligence officer, Lieutenant Cammy (Kylie Minogue), must recruit two unlikely heroes, small-time hustlers Ken Masters (Damian Chapa) and Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann), in an audacious plan to locate the sadistic general's futuristic secret fortress. But their entire plan is nearly derailed at the last moment when GNT news correspondent Chun-Li Zang (Ming-Na), who wants much more than a story, intervenes.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue
Director: Steven E. de Souza
Pineapple Express (2008)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller | Action
A new comedy from the creative genius of Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights) follows a pair of druggie losers as they reach the top of the hit-list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently. The film stars new sensation Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin) and James Franco (Spider-Man 1-3) and it co-stars Rosie Perez (Do The Right Thing) and Gary Cole (The Brady Bunch Movie). Movie is directed by David Gordon Green.
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny R. McBride
Director: David Gordon Green
Blue Streak (1999)
Comedy | Action | Thriller | Crime
Master jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence, 'Life', 'Bad Boys') has a big problem. A $20 million dollar problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond, he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier. Unfortunately, his hiding place is now at the center of a recently completed high-security police precinct. Posing as a detective, and partnered with straight laced rookie Carlson (Luke Wilson, 'Home Fries', 'Bottle Rocket'), Miles utilizes his criminal expertise and inadvertently rises up the ranks, winning the respect of his fellow "boys in blue." Powered by a hot soundtrack with music by Jay-Z, Foxy Brown and Tyrese featuring Heavy D, 'Blue Streak' is a hilarious action-comedy from director Les Mayfield ('Flubber', 'Encino Man').
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, William Forsythe
Director: Les Mayfield
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: McG
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives "off the grid" – no home, no credit cards, no cell phone, no job and no record of his existence. No way Skynet – the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity, can trace him until, out of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator, his mysterious former assassin. Together, they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgment Day or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken
Director: Jonathan Mostow
The Terminator (1984)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the year 2029, the ruling super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back in time to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she can fulfill her destiny and save mankind.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
Director: James Cameron
Tactical Force (2011)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
Starring: Michael Jai White, Steve Austin, Michael Shanks, Lexa Doig, Darren Shahlavi
Director: Adamo P. Cultraro
Dark Country (2009)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A couple en route from Las Vegas are forced to deal with a body out in the desert making their honeymoon one hellish ride.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Lauren German, Ron Perlman
Director: Thomas Jane
Parallel Life (2010)
Thriller
KIM Suk-hyun is Korea's youngest appointed criminal court head judge, very famous for his rational rulings. It is before his court that the case of distinguished mathematics professor SOHN Ki-chul's murder of his wife is presented. While examining SOHN's file, Suk-hyun finds SOHN's life unbelievably parallels Kurt Gödel's. But KIM believes fate is what one makes of it, and just regards SOHN as a crazy old professor who killed his wife. One day, Suk-hyun gets a strange phone call threatening the lives of his wife, Yoon-kyung, and his young daughter. Before long, Yoon-kyung turns up dead, and SOHN dies of starvation-just like Gödel.
Starring: Jun-wu Bae, Eun-chan Choi, Min-geum Choi
Director: Ho-Young Kwon
Maximum Risk (1996)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a French soldier, never knew he had a brother, much less a twin, until he found him lying dead on the streets of his European home town. To find out who his brother was, Alain must step into his shoes. he must become Mikhail, and follow his footsteps back to New York's tough Little Odessa and into the same shadowy underworld that swallowed his brother. There's only one problem: all traces of Mikhail's life are rapidly disappearing, and the one person who knew Mikhail best may not be telling all she knows…
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stéphane Audran
Director: Ringo Lam
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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
