Category Archives: Thriller
The Great Wall
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Yimou Zhang
Writers: Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy
Stars: Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Tian Jing, Andy Lau
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/
A mystery centered around the construction of the Great Wall of China.
Altitude
Release 2017
Genre Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Alex Merkin
Writers: Tyler W. Konney, Jesse Mittelstadt, Richard Switzer
Stars: Denise Richards, Dolph Lundgren, Jonathan Lipnicki, Greer Grammer, Stephen Graybill
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4556370/
A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.
Mean Dreams
Release 2016
Genre Thriller
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Director: Nathan Morlando
Writers: Kevin Coughlin, Ryan Grassby
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton, Colm Feore, Ryan Blakely
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5160928/
Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.
Brimstone
Release 2016
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Director: Martin Koolhoven
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Kit Harington, Carice van Houten, Paul Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895315/
From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
Larceny
Release 2017
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Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Writers: Benjamin Budd, Scott Windhauser
Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Corbin Bernsen, Louis Mandylor, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jocelyn Osorio
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4797160/
The CIA enlists a professional thief to break into the safe at Mexico's top secret Guantanamo Bay-style prison facility and retrieve sensitive information being stored there. All hell breaks loose when the local Cartel Boss, who's millions in confiscated cash is also being stored in the safe, sends waves of thugs and professionals to siege the facility and steal back the money before the Mexican Army arrives with backup.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Release 2017
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: Rich Wilkes, F. Scott Frazier
Stars: Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1293847/
Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.
Cut to the Chase
Release 2016
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Director: Blayne Weaver
Stars: Blayne Weaver, Lyndie Greenwood, Erin Cahill, Lance Henriksen, Patrick Day
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4034390/
An ex-con sets out in search of his kidnapped sister through the criminal underbelly of Shreveport, Louisiana.
48 Hours to Live
Release 2016
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Director: Benny Boom
Writers: Gregory Ramon Anderson, Rashad El Amin, Hannah Macpherson
Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Jade Tailor, Danielle Savre, Bianca A. Santos, Emilio Rivera
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948530/
A 3D hybrid merging the genres of film noir, dance, and mystery. A loner fresh out of rehab and hunted by both sides of the law returns home to solve the murder of his sister, and finds himself entangled in a game of revenge on the LA club circuit.
Fallen
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Scott Hicks
Writers: Michael Arlen Ross, Kathryn Price, Nichole Millard, Lauren Kate
Stars: Hermione Corfield, Joely Richardson, Daisy Head, Lola Kirke, Addison Timlin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564777/
A young girl finds herself in a reform school after therapy since she was blamed for the death of a young boy. At the school she finds herself drawn to a fellow student, unaware that he is an angel, and has loved her for thousands of years.
Headshot
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Writers: Timo Tjahjanto
Stars: Julie Estelle, David Hendrawan, Chelsea Islan, Epy Kusnandar, Zack Lee
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5147214/
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.