Category Archives: Thriller
Cloverfield
Release 2008
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Goddard
Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
I Am Legend
Release 2007
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Director: Francis Lawrence
Writers: Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman, Richard Matheson, John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
War of the Worlds
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
Armageddon
Release 1998
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy Pool
Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
Twister
Release 1996
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Jan de Bont
Writers: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin
Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
The Day After Tomorrow
Release 2004
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Wanted
Release 2008
Genre Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writers: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan, Mark Millar, J.G. Jones
Stars: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/
A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
The Tourist
Release 2010
Genre Action, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writers: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellowes, Jérôme Salle
Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1243957/
Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Shooter
Release 2007
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Jonathan Lemkin, Stephen Hunter
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up.
6 Souls
Release 2010
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Writers: Michael Cooney
Stars: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy, Nate Corddry
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179069/
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.