Category Archives: Thriller
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Release 2011
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Pierre Boulle
Stars: Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Richard Ridings, Christopher Gordon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318514/
A substance, designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape uprising.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Gavin Hood
Writers: David Benioff, Skip Woods
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will.i.am, Lynn Collins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
A look at Wolverine's early life, in particular his time with the government squad Team X and the impact it will have on his later years.
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Release 2006
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Brett Ratner
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Hanna
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: Joe Wright
Writers: Seth Lochhead, David Farr
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett, Paris Arrowsmith
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993842/
A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
Source Code
Release 2011
Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Duncan Jones
Writers: Ben Ripley
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Arden
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/
An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
In Time
Release 2011
Genre Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki, Colin McGurk
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Release 2011
Genre Action, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writers: Scott M. Gimple, Seth Hoffman, David S. Goyer
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Violante Placido, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba, Johnny Whitworth
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071875/
As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form.
Green Lantern
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Martin Campbell
Writers: Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/
A test pilot is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers that inducts him into an intergalactic police force.
Limitless
Release 2011
Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon, Alan Glynn
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Anna Friel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/
With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Release 2011
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: David Fincher
Writers: Steven Zaillian, Stieg Larsson
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.