Category Archives: Thriller
The Usual Suspects
Release 1995
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Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie
Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/
A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
Shutter Island
Release 2010
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.
Final Destination
Release 2000
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Director: James Wong
Writers: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick
Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Final Destination 2
Release 2003
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Director: David R. Ellis
Writers: J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress, Jeffrey Reddick
Stars: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, David Paetkau, James Kirk
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309593/
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
The Final Destination 4
Release 2009
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Director: David R. Ellis
Writers: Eric Bress, Jeffrey Reddick
Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144884/
After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Final Destination 5
Release 2011
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Director: Steven Quale
Writers: Eric Heisserer, Jeffrey Reddick
Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1622979/
Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.
Hummingbird
Release 2013
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Steven Knight
Stars: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Ger Ryan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1893256/
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity -- transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Parker
Release 2013
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Director: Taylor Hackford
Writers: John J. McLaughlin, Donald E. Westlake
Stars: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Clifton Collins Jr.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1904996/
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Crank: High Voltage
Release 2009
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Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Stars: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Julanne Chidi Hill
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121931/
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Crank
Release 2006
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Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Stars: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479884/
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.