Category Archives: Thriller
xXx2: State of the Union
Release 2005
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Lee Tamahori
Writers: Rich Wilkes, Simon Kinberg
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, Scott Speedman, Xzibit
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329774/
Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, is sent to Washington, DC to defuse a power struggle amongst national leaders.
xXx
Release 2002
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Director: Rob Cohen
Writers: Rich Wilkes
Stars: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Roof
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295701/
An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Release 2004
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Garry Marshall
Writers: Meg Cabot, Gina Wendkos, Shonda Rhimes
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, John Rhys-Davies, Heather Matarazzo
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368933/
Now settled in Genovia, Princess Mia faces a new revelation: she's being primed for an arranged marriage to a English suitor.
Deep Impact
Release 1998
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Mimi Leder
Writers: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin
Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/
Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive?
Cloverfield
Release 2008
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Goddard
Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
I Am Legend
Release 2007
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Director: Francis Lawrence
Writers: Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman, Richard Matheson, John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
War of the Worlds
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
Armageddon
Release 1998
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy Pool
Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
Twister
Release 1996
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Jan de Bont
Writers: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin
Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
The Day After Tomorrow
Release 2004
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.