Category Archives: Thriller
Possessor
Release 2020
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Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Writer: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Sean Bean, Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuppence Middleton, Christopher Abbott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5918982/
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Arkansas
Release 2020
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Director: Clark Duke
Writers: Andrew Boonkrong, Clark Duke
Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, Michael Kenneth Williams, John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9139586/
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
The Quarry
Release 2020
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Scott Teems
Writers: Scott Teems, Andrew Brotzman, Damon Galgut
Stars: Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10151054/
A drifter (Shea Whigham) kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief (Michael Shannon) suspects foul play.
Butt Boy
Release 2019
Genre Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Tyler Cornack
Writers: Tyler Cornack, Ryan Koch
Stars: Angela Jones, Kristina Clifford, Tyler Cornack, Gail Bloyd, Tyler Rice
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7879442/
Chip Gutchel, a bored married IT Engineer, has a reawakening after a routine prostate exam. What starts as a harmless rectal kink, soon grows into a dangerous addiction as he becomes responsible for a missing child. Chip eventually buries his desires in Alcoholics Anonymous and tries to move on with his life. Years later, he becomes the sponsor of Russell Fox, a newly sober detective. After Chip relapses, Russell is brought in to investigate another missing child at Chip's office. Russell begins to suspect that Chip's addiction may not be to alcohol, but something much more sinister. It's up to Russell now to prove that Chip is responsible for the child's disappearance. But who's going to believe his wild theory?
Gretel & Hansel
Release 2020
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Oz Perkins
Writers: Rob Hayes, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9086228/
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
The Cave
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Tom Waller
Writers: Katrina Grose, Don Linder, Tom Waller
Stars: Ron Smoorenburg, Maythavee Burapasing, Lawrence de Stefano, Kelly B. Jones, Eoin O'Brien
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8726180/
A Thai boys soccer team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.
Haunt
Release 2019
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Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Writers: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Stars: Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, Lauryn Alisa McClain, Andrew Caldwell, Shazi Raja
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6535880/
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
The Platform
Release 2019
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Writers: David Desola, David Desola, Pedro Rivero
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Pit.
The Hunt
Release 2020
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Craig Zobel
Writers: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Seberg
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Benedict Andrews
Writers: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1780967/
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.