Category Archives: Thriller
Cry Macho
Release 2021
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Nick Schenk, N. Richard Nash
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola, Brytnee Ratledge, Natalia Traven
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924245/
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. On their journey, the horseman finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Old
Release 2021
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan, Pierre-Oscar Lévy, Frederik Peeters
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954652/
A vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they're relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Candyman
Release 2021
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Director: Nia DaCosta
Writers: Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta
Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9347730/
A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
The Card Counter
Release 2021
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Director: Paul Schrader
Writer: Paul Schrader
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Babara
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11196036/
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Bad Candy
Release 2020
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Director: Scott B. Hansen, Desiree Connell
Writers: Desiree Connell, Scott B. Hansen, Thacker Hoffman
Stars: Zach Galligan, Corey Taylor, Derek Russo, Brittney Rae, Haley Leary
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6561576/
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor) and Paul (Zach Galligan) tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths that lead to a grim end for small-town residents.
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Release 2021
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Sion Sono
Writers: Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Narisa Suzuki
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6372694/
A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
The Guilty
Release 2021
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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Nic Pizzolatto, Gustav Möller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9421570/
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
The Voyeurs
Release 2021
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Michael Mohan
Writer: Michael Mohan
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Justice Smith, Ben Hardy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Katharine King So
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11235772/
Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite, this will set in motion a chain of events that will lead to disaster.
Karen
Release 2021
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Director: Coke Daniels
Writer: Coke Daniels
Stars: Taryn Manning, Cory Hardrict, Gregory Alan Williams, Jasmine Burke, Brandon Sklenar
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12636872/
A racist woman takes it as a personal mission to displace the new Black family that just moved into the neighborhood, but they won't back down without a fight.
Yakuza Princess
Release 2021
Genre Thriller
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Director: Vicente Amorim
Writers: Vicente Amorim, Danilo Beyruth, Kimi Lee
Stars: MASUMI, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Kenny Leu
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10715446/
The heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate forges an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates. She must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.