Category Archives: Thriller
Contagion
Release 2011
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
The CDC races against time to develop a vaccine against an extremely lethal virus.
Escape from Pretoria
Release 2020
Genre Thriller
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Director: Francis Annan
Writers: Francis Annan, L.H. Adams, Karol Griffiths
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, Nathan Page, Stephen Hunter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5797184/
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Impossible Monsters
Release 2019
Genre Thriller
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Director: Nathan Catucci
Writer: Nathan Catucci
Stars: Santino Fontana, Dennis Boutsikaris, Laila Robins, Natalie Knepp, Geoffrey Owens
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4328094/
An ambitious professor becomes caught up in the murder of a participant in his sleep study, as the lines between dreams and reality blur.
The Dawn
Release 2019
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Director: Brandon Slagle
Writers: Elliot Diviney (screenplay), Brandon Slagle
Stars: Devanny Pinn, Stacey Dash, Ryan Kiser
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7461372/
Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman goes to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
Black Christmas
Release 2019
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Sophia Takal
Writers: Sophia Takal, April Wolfe
Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10481868/
A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy.
Mr. Jones
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Andrea Chalupa
Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
John Henry
Release 2020
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Director: Will Forbes
Writers: Will Forbes, Doug Skinner
Stars: Terry Crews, Ludacris, Maestro Harrell
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8170298/
When two immigrant kids on the run from his former South Los Angeles gang leader stumble into his life, John is forced to reconcile with his past in order to try and give them a future.
Dark Waters
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, Nathaniel Rich
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Inherit the Viper
Release 2019
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Director: Anthony Jerjen
Writers: Andrew Crabtree
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Dern, Margarita Levieva
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7349896/
Crime thriller about three siblings in Appalachia getting by as local opioid dealers, trying not to get caught in the spiral of violence that comes with the territory.
Countdown
Release 2019
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Director: Justin Dec
Writer: Justin Dec
Stars: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10039344/
When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.