Category Archives: Thriller
Foxcatcher
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
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Director: Bennett Miller
Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
Stars: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100089/
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher lead by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
No Good Deed
Release 2014
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Sam Miller
Writers: Aimee Lagos
Stars: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011159/
An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.