Category Archives: Thriller
Solace
Release 2015
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Director: Afonso Poyart
Writers: Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Farrell, Abbie Cornish, Anthony Hopkins, Xander Berkeley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291570/
A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer.
Diablo
Release 2015
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: Lawrence Roeck
Writers: Carlos De Los Rios, Lawrence Roeck
Stars: Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle, Samuel Marty, Danny Glover
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4076760/
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
The Throwaways
Release 2015
Genre Action, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Tony Bui
Writers: Michael Ross, Don Handfield
Stars: Peter Brooke, James Caan, Noel Clarke, Kevin Dillon, Darrell D'Silva
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4076980/
Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison...
Captive
Release 2015
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Jerry Jameson
Writers: Brian Bird, Reinhard Denke, Ashley Smith
Stars: Kate Mara, Mimi Rogers, Michael Kenneth Williams, David Oyelowo, Leonor Varela
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268668/
A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the judge assigned to his case.
Standoff
Release 2016
Genre Thriller
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Director: Adam Alleca
Writers: Adam Alleca
Stars: Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, Ella Ballentine
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3703908/
Carter (Thomas Jane), a troubled veteran who gets a chance at redemption by protecting a 12 year-old girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
Spectre
Release 2015
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: Sam Mendes
Writers: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth, Ian Fleming
Stars: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Spotlight
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Tom McCarthy
Writers: Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Bridge of Spies
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Mark Rylance, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, Mark Fichera, Brian Hutchison
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3682448/
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
In the Heart of the Sea
Release 2015
Genre Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Charles Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Nathaniel Philbrick
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1390411/
A recounting of a whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820 that would inspire the great novel, Moby Dick.
Legend
Release 2015
Genre Adventure, Biography, Crime, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Brian Helgeland
Writers: Brian Helgeland, John Pearson
Stars: Colin Morgan, Tom Hardy, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Emily Browning
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.