Category Archives: Thriller
Kursk
Release 2018
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Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writers: Robert Rodat, Robert Moore
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Michael Nyqvist
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4951982/
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
The Possession of Hannah Grace
Release 2018
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Diederik Van Rooijen
Writers: Brian Sieve
Stars: Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon, Kirby Johnson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5734576/
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
London Fields
Release 2018
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Mathew Cullen
Writers: Roberta Hanley, Martin Amis
Stars: Amber Heard, Gemma Chan, Cara Delevingne
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273221/
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
Velvet Buzzsaw
Release 2019
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Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7043012/
After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
The Front Runner
Release 2018
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Director: Jason Reitman
Writers: Matt Bai, Jay Carson, Jason Reitman
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7074886/
American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
Robin Hood
Release 2018
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: Otto Bathurst
Writers: Ben Chandler, David James Kelly
Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532826/
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance.
Widows
Release 2018
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Director: Steve McQueen
Writers: Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen, Lynda La Plante
Stars: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Jon Bernthal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4218572/
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Close
Release 2019
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Director: Vicky Jewson
Writers: Vicky Jewson, Rupert Whitaker
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Indira Varma, Sophie Nélisse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5316540/
A bodyguard and counter-terrorism expert Sam takes a job protecting Zoe a rich young heiress. Neither party is keen on the arrangement until a violent kidnap forces them to go on the run.
The Vanishing
Release 2018
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Kristoffer Nyholm
Writers: Joe Bone, Celyn Jones
Stars: Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4131496/
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
The Oath
Release 2018
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Director: Ike Barinholtz
Writer: Ike Barinholtz
Stars: Billy Magnussen, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7461200/
In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.