Category Archives: Thriller
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Release 2014
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Scott Frank
Writers: Scott Frank, Lawrence Block
Stars: Liam Neeson, Maurice Compte, Patrick McDade, Luciano Acuna Jr., Hans Marrero
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365907/
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
The Dead
Release 2010
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford
Stars: Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe, Glenn Salvage
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386925/
An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
Defiance
Release 2008
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
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Director: Edward Zwick
Writers: Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick, Nechama Tec
Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.
The Glass House
Release 2001
Genre Thriller
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Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writers: Wesley Strick
Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221218/
An orphaned teenager is taken in by a Malibu couple but discovers they aren't the caring friends they seemed to be.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Release 2014
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Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Writers: Frank Miller
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Wolf Creek 2
Release 2013
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Director: Greg Mclean
Writers: Greg Mclean, Aaron Sterns
Stars: John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn, Philippe Klaus, Shane Connor
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2004432/
The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor.
Wolf Creek
Release 2005
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Director: Greg Mclean
Stars: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.
Dawn of the Dead
Release 2004
Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Zack Snyder
Writers: George A. Romero, James Gunn
Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Petals on the Wind
Release 2014
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Karen Moncrieff
Writers: Kayla Alpert, Virginia C. Andrews
Stars: Heather Graham, Rose McIver, Wyatt Nash, Bailey De Young, Nick Searcy
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3496892/
A decade after Cathy, Christopher, and Carrie escaped from their grandparents' attic at Foxworth Hall...
The November Man
Release 2014
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Director: Roger Donaldson
Writers: Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek, Bill Granger
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich, Amila Terzimehic
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402157/
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.