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In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure. Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, 12 Monkeys would become Gilliam's most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic.
Michael Mann co-writes and directs this action thriller starring Chris Hemsworth as a former computer hacker. When an anonymous cyber criminal begins targeting the international banking network, American and Chinese security agencies combine to try and bring him down. With the help of Nicholas Hathaway (Hemsworth), who has been incarcerated for similar activity and is believed to be the only man capable of understanding the criminal's coding, the authorities are led on a worldwide manhunt to stop the global threat.
In Victorian England, a Parish Councillor and criminal take refuge from a storm at a remote countryside Inn. Forced to stay the night, they soon uncover a deadly pact between the strange Innkeepers and the flesh-hungry werewolves that inhabit the surrounding woodlands. Now, as the werewolves close in, the guests must band together and fight tooth and nail to survive the night!
Sean Connery and Ian McShane stars in this classic British thriller. Set in Scandinavia, it interweaves two terrorist situations; the kidnapping of the British ambassador and the hijacking of a plane while still on the tarmac. Connery plays the smooth talking Colonel who is sent in to make sense of and solve both situations.
Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.
David L.G. Hughes directs this British gangster thriller set in Southend-On-Sea. Southend is known for having the longest pleasure pier in the world, but it isn't the pursuit of leisure that brings crime boss Jimmy the Gent (Peter Wight) to town. Jimmy has come to visit Shrewd Eddie (Paul Freeman), the ruthless gangster who has come to dominate the dark side of Southend in recent years, to collect the quarter of a million he is owed. As word spreads rapidly around the local crime community about this clash of the titans, all manner of chancers and psychopaths spot an opportunity to find favour with either Jimmy or Eddie and attempt to get in on the action.
Supernatural thriller starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. Writer Will Atenton (Craig) and his wife, Libby (Weisz), move with their two young daughters from Manhattan to a small town in New England. Unfortunately, after a series of strange occurrences they discover that their idyllic new home was once the site of a horrific crime - and that their new neighbour, Ann Patterson (Watts), appears to know more than she is willing to tell them.
Harrison Ford is prison escapee Dr Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Tommy Lee Jones is Sam Gerard, an unrelenting bloodhound of a US Marsh They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis, their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out. So catch him if you can. And catch 11-on-a-scale-of-ten train wreck (yes, the train is real), a plunge down a waterfall, a cat-and-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St Patrick's Day Parade and much more. Kimble doesn't stay in one place very long!
Alejandro Amenabar writes and directs this psychological thriller starring Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. Set in 1990 Minnesota, the film follows Detective Bruce Kenner (Hawke) as he investigates the disturbing case of John Gray (David Dencik), who, although having no recollection of the incident, admits to sexually abusing his 17-year-old daughter Angela (Watson). As Kenner conducts his investigation, he finds there is more to the case than it seems and that it may be connected to similar crimes across the country.
When a New Orleans ferry carrying 500 passengers is destroyed by a bomb, Doug Carling; an FBI agent is drafted in to track down the perpetrator. When a body is found floating in the river, it is determined that the victim was murdered before the ferry blast occurred. Unfortunately, the victim was the impossibly beautiful Claire Kuchever, whose death has begun to torment Carlin. Adding a new level to the investigation is a top-secret FBI invention, which allows a select group to view the past on screen as if it had been videotaped days earlier. The more Carlin sees of Kuchever, the more connected to her he becomes, until he decides to risk his life by travelling back in time and altering the course of history.
6-episode miniseries based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they always wanted: She’s a successful therapist, he’s an acclaimed paediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight. A violent death. A missing husband. A series of unthinkable revelations. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star in this gripping HBO limited series from writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Susanne Bier (Bird Box). An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and turns, The Undoing exposes the lies we tell ourselves – even when the truth is right in front of us.
British gangster film based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer - respected among London's crime elite - whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' and lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect and endless 'layers' of deals and double-deals...
Neil Thompson directs this British thriller set in early 1980s Birmingham. Mel Raido stars as Danny, a lonely and introverted factory worker whose already bleak existence is reduced still further when he becomes the victim of a random act of violence. However, Danny's life is turned around when he meets the doormen of a local nightclub, who take him in and build up his confidence. But as Danny is drawn deeper into their world, he crosses paths with the local gangland boss and inadvertently triggers a chain of events with shockingly brutal consequences.
The largest storm to hit Oklahoma in more than half a century is brewing, and it promises to drop multiple twisters into Tornado Alley. It's the storm that two rival groups of scientists — Jo Harding and her band of brash university students, and corporate-sponsored Dr. Jonas Miller and his sleek, crack cadre with their state-of-the-art research vans — have been waiting for to earn their place in meteorological history. Each team wants to be the first to launch their own equipment pack inside a twister to transmit valuable scientific data about tornado behavior. But to do so, they must put themselves directly in the path of the marauding monster — and stay always just ahead of the swirling twister, anticipating its every move. Adding to the charged atmosphere, Jo's soon-to-be-ex-husband, meteorologist Bill Harding, reluctantly joins Jo and his old crew for this last, epic chase.
Robert Altman directs this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) smells a rat when his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton), whom he has just driven to Tijuana, is accused of murder. Convinced of Lennox's innocence, Marlowe follows a convoluted trail which leads him to his friend's mistress, Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), her alcoholic husband (Sterling Hayden) and hood Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), to whom Lennox owed a substantial sum of money. Watch out for an early, unbilled appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of Augustine's heavies.
Classic downbeat British crime thriller, directed by Neil Jordan. George (Bob Hoskins) is a low-grade mob enforcer, recently released from prison after a stretch covering up for his boss, Mortwell (Michael Caine). Taking on a job as chauffeur to prickly call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson), George gradually begins to fall in love with her as he helps her look for her best friend Cathy (Kate Hardie). But when he eventually finds her, the naive George is dismayed to find that Cathy and Simone are lovers. Even worse, George has unwittingly become involved in a dangerous game that Simone and Cathy are playing against his old underworld boss, Mortwell.
Homicide Detective Caleb Barnes (Stephen Baldwin) had always been able to maintain a professional distance between his personal life and the numbing horror of his work. However, since the accidental death of his young son, he has immersed himself in the grisly details of the cases he investigates. A series of murders in Salt Lake City draws his attention and he uncovers a web of murder and deceit.
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered and a lone law student turns her suspicion about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter want to tell the world what they have uncovered - if they live to tell it. The race is on and these two are more than runners. They're moving targets.
A double bill of the classic 70's thrillers featuring an Oscar-winning Gene Hackman as 'Popeye' Doyle. In the first film Doyle and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) are tough New York cops attempting to crack a drug smuggling ring. They have a small candy store under surveillance, but Doyle is not happy when he receives the order to work with a pair of French federal agents on the case, one of whom he has a long-standing feud with. Hackman and director William Friedkin both earned Oscars for the film, which also took the award for Best Picture. Whilst in the sequel Doyle (Hackman) travels to Marseilles to track down Charnier (Fernando Rey), the leader of a drug smuggling ring whom he failed to capture in the first film. Kidnapped by dealers and pumped with heroin, Doyle has to kick his new-found habit before he can set about his revenge.
In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile, reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the former detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Successful San Francisco tycoon and control freak Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) approaches his forty-eighth birthday with some trepidation. For it was at this age that his father fell from his mansion roof and died. Nicholas receives an introduction to Consumer Recreation Services from his younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn), and is informed that he is now playing 'The Game'. Nicholas soon finds himself losing control and threatened with the loss of not just his company and fortune but also his life.
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioural manipulation, the surveillance state, and the interests that control these extraordianry powers.
When robotics engineer Gemma designs a life-like doll to bond with her orphaned niece, she hopes that the doll will become the child's best friend. However, when the doll starts to exhibit worrying characteristics, Gemma wonders whether she has created a friend or a monster.
Seventies blockbuster movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. A large man-eating shark wreaks havoc off the coast of Long Island whilst local sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) finds himself caught between a panicking community and a town council eager to play down the reported deaths. However, the mounting bodycount cannot be ignored, so Brody heads off on a shark hunt, accompanied by marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and salty old sea-dog Quint (Robert Shaw). John Williams won an Oscar for his menacing score. This DVD is certificated 12 due to the 'Making of...' documentary included, the VHS version is rated PG.
1950s film-noir thriller starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. When Myra Hudson (Crawford) refuses to let Lester Blaine (Palance) act in her new play because she thinks he does not resemble a romantic lead, Lester attempts to romance her in a bid to prove her wrong. However, as events unfold it becomes unclear whether or not he has a dark hidden motive. |
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