Fast Five / Fast & Furious 5 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.
Starring: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Justin Lin
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Boksuneun naui geot (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A deaf-mute man, Ryu, works in a smelting factory and inhabits his own silent world, oblivious to the din both at work and in his downscale apartment building. He idolizes his sister, who urgently needs a kidney transplant, and when he's laid off and then tricked out of his savings by organ traffickers, his wacko girlfriend, Yeong-mi, suggests kidnapping his former boss's daughter to pay for his sister's operation. Yeong-mi sees it as social revenge. Ryu, initially scared of the consequences, finally agrees after seeing another laid-off worker attempt hara- kiri outside the boss's home. After kidnapping the boss's daughter, their whole plan starts to quickly unravel with horrible consequences.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Doona Bae, Ji-Eun Lim, Bo-bae Han, Se-dong Kim, Dae-yeon Lee
Director: Chan-wook Park
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Thomas Crown (Pierce Bronson) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of challenges. When an alarm sounds at a a world class museum and someone walks out with a priceless Monet, Crown is the last person the New York police suspect. Who would steal something he could easily afford to buy and why would he? But one person suspects him: Catherine Banning (Renne Ruso), the brilliant female investigator hired to retrieve the painting no matter what it takes. Catherine loves the chase as much as he does and she's on to his game. Crown has found his challenge. The Thomas Crown Affair is based on the 1968 movie with the same title starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie R. Faison
Director: John McTiernan
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Sean Connery is back for his final performance as superagent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller from the director of The Empire Strikes Back. When two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil SPECTRE organization, Agent 007 is hurled into an explosive, pulse-pounding race to save the world from nuclear terrorists!
Starring: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Max von Sydow, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Bernie Casey
Director: Irvin Kershner
Casino Royale (2006)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. "M" (Judi Dench), head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly-promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. "M" places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury official Vesper Lynd. At first skeptical of what value Vesper can provide, Bond's interest in her deepens as they brave danger together. Le Chiffre's cunning and cruelty come to bear on them both in a way Bond could never imagine, and he learns his most important lesson: Trust no one.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Martin Campbell
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
In the 19th film of the franchise, James Bond is once again pitted against Valentin Zukovsky, the Russian mobster from Goldeneye.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench
Director: Michael Apted
Live and Let Die (1973)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
James Bond battles the forces of black magic in this high-octane adventure that hurtles him from the streets of New York City to Louisiana's bayou country. With charm, wit and deadly assurance, Roger Moore steps in as Agent 007 and takes on a powerful drug lord (Yaphet Kotto) with a diabolical scheme to conquer the world.
Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, David Hedison
Director: Guy Hamilton
Die Another Day (2002)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
When his top-secret mission is sabotaged, James Bond finds himself captured by the enemy, abandoned by M16 and stripped of his 00-license. Determined to get revenge, Bond goes head-to-head with a sultry spy, a frosty agent (and a shadowy billionaire (Toby Stephens) whose business is diamonds… but whose secret is a diabolical weapon that could bring the world to its knees.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Judi Dench, Madonna
Director: Lee Tamahori
Blood Ties / Huan hun (2009)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
On the 7th night of his death, Shun's spirit returns to possess his little sister Qing to exact revenge on those who brutally murdered him and his beloved wife. The whole story unfolds in the course of one night, as we see how a little girl possessed by a man, hunts down his killers one by one.
Starring: Pei-pei Cheng, David Leong, Joey Leong, Vincent Tee, Kenneth Tsang, Jeszlene Zhou
Director: Yee-Wei Chai
Blindness (2008)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yoshino Kimura, Yûsuke Iseya
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Missing / Sam hoi tsam yan (2008)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
A man who plans ask his girlfriend to marry him hides an engagement ring in Japan's ancient undersea ruins off Yonaguni Island.
Starring: Angelica Lee, Isabella Leong, Chen Chang, Isabella Leong, Alice Lee, Xiaodong Guo, Tony Leung, Chen-Yue Chang
Director: Hark Tsui
Venom (2005)
Horror | Teen | Thriller
Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they find is an evil force more deadly than anyone could have imagined. Now they are the ones running for their lives.
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good, Laura Ramsey, D.J. Cotrona, Rick Cramer
Director: Jim Gillespie
The Invasion (2007)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington, DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll, learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic: it attacks its victims while they sleep, leaving them physically unchanged but strangely unfeeling and inhuman. As the infection spreads, more and more people are altered and it becomes impossible to know who can be trusted. Now Carol's only hope is to stay awake long enough to find her young son, who may hold the key to stopping the devastating invasion.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Defiance (2008)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Alan Corduner
Director: Edward Zwick
Hush (1998)
Mystery | Thriller
Helen is the young girlfriend of good-looking Jackson Baring. When Helen gets pregnant and marries Jackson, they decide to move to his hometown, Kilronan, and have a baby there. But his mother Martha, who lives there, starts to do weird things, and obviously she's not too friendly to Helen.
Starring: Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch
Director: Jonathan Darby
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Comedy | Horror | Teen | Thriller
When small town high school student Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, she transitions from being "high school evil"—gorgeous (and doesn't she know it), stuck up and ultra-attitudinal—to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a meaty snack, and guys who never stood a chance with the heartless babe, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer's insatiable appetite. Meanwhile, Jennifer's lifelong best friend Needy (Amanda Seyfried), long relegated to living in Jennifer's shadow, must step-up to protect the town's young men, including her nerdy boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons).
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
Director: Karyn Kusama
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
James Bond (Agent 007) must find the missing "Solex Agitator," a device that will harness the sun's radiation and give awesome power to whomever possesses it. Also vying for the prize is Francisco Scaramanga, a world-class assassin who brandishes a distinctive golden gun. When 007 discovers he is to be Scaramanga's next target, he is hurled into a deadly game of cat- and-mouse, continuing the search as he evades the killer on his trail. Bond must also contend with Scaramanga's exotic lover Andrea Anders, and Nick Nack, whose small size belies his lethal abilities. Even as 007 enlists the aid of sensuous Mary Goodnight, he must overcome ferocious odds to survive an explosive showdown on Scaramanga's remote island. His adventures draw him into a gripping boat pursuit, a wild automobile chase through Bangkok, and an unthinkable confrontation against an entire martial arts school.
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize, Clifton James
Director: Guy Hamilton
Knowing (2009)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A single father and chairman of his town's historical society is summoned when a time capsule buried behind an elementary school in 1958 is prematurely unearthed because of a water-main break. The man, whose son attends the school, sifts through the contents and finds drawings of what 1958 tykes predicted the modern world would be like. It's all flying cars and fantasy stuff, with the exception of one chilling entry. One child predicted some of the most horrible events in recent history, and there's one that hasn't yet occurred, which the man attempts to prevent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Lara Robinson
Director: Alex Proyas
Walking Tall (2004)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
In Walking Tall, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays Chris Vaughn, a retired U.S. Special Forces soldier who returns to his hometown to make a new life for himself, only to discover his wealthy high school rival, Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), has closed the once-prosperous lumber mill and turned the town's resources towards his own criminal gains. The place Chris grew up is now overrun with crime, drugs, and violence. Enlisting the help of his old pal Ray Templeton (Johnny Knoxville), Chris gets elected sheriff and vows to shut down Hamilton's operations. His actions endanger his family and threaten his own life, but Chris refuses to back down until his hometown once again feels like home.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough, Kristen Wilson, Ashley Scott
Director: Kevin Bray
Doomsday (2008)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the action-packed new thriller Doomsday, authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades — until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara
Director: Neil Marshall
