Category Archives: Thriller

The Equalizer

Release 2014

Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim
Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455944/

A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her.

Gone Girl

Release 2014

Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: David Fincher
Writers: Gillian Flynn
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Dying of the Light

Release 2014

Genre Drama, Thriller

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Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274586/

Evan Lake refuses to retire from his career in the CIA and goes rogue to hunt down his terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.

Nightcrawler

Release 2014

Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodríguez, Bill Paxton, James Huang
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/

When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

The Departed

Release 2006

Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: William Monahan, Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.

The Maze Runner

Release 2014

Genre Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Wes Ball
Writers: Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, T.S. Nowlin, James Dashner
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Aml Ameen, Ki Hong Lee, Blake Cooper, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790864/

Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.

The Losers

Release 2010

Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Sylvain White
Writers: Peter Berg, James Vanderbilt, Andy Diggle
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480255/

A CIA special forces team are betrayed and left for dead by their superiors, galvanizing them to mount an offensive on the CIA.

Predestination

Release 2014

Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writers: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Robert A. Heinlein
Stars: Sarah Snook, Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Elise Jansen, Freya Stafford
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/

The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.

As Above, So Below

Release 2014

Genre Horror, Thriller

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Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writers: Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2870612/

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

The Borderland

Release 2014

Genre Action, Thriller

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Director: Mathieu Weschler
Stars: Sedina Balde, Michael Chan, Sabine Crossen, Serge Crozon-Cazin, James Gerard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379715/

A captured bounty hunter is promised his freedom if he can break several prisoners out of a North Korean military stronghold.