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Thriller in which a group of college friends' vacation on a lake island cabin turns into a nightmare when they discover they are surrounded by flesh-hungry sharks. Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends arrive at her family's Louisiana holiday cabin in good spirits. With the weather as sunny as they'd hoped, they soon venture outside to sunbathe and swim. Things begin to go wrong when football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) emerges from the water with an arm missing. Little do they know what waits in store for them when they set sail across the lake to try and get Malik to a hospital: the group are hunted by what seem like hundreds of sharks and face a desperate battle for survival.
Low-budget British thriller starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Simon Phillips. Set in an eerie post-apocalyptic London, the film tells the story of seven people who are the only remaining survivors after an unspecified cataclysmic event has wiped out the Earth's entire population. As they struggle to understand what has happened to them, the seven are hunted down one by one by a mysterious demonic power.
Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd). But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane.
Eight strangers find themselves on a small boat heading to the island retreat of their mysterious host. The guests have diverse backgrounds but all harbour a dark secret. When they are joined by the cook and a maid, they become ten. The host fails to materialize and when the maid plays a recording that accuses each of the guests of murder, each deny their involvement, but this doesn't stop them being murdered one by one. Can the remaining guests find the murderer before it is their turn to die? Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians has been turned into a film more than once but none can compare with this version from Rene Clair.
Four old college friends – Luke, Hutch, Phil and Dom – decide to take a hiking trip deep in the Swedish wilderness in order to bond and reminisce about old times. However, the inexperienced hikers soon find themselves hopelessly lost, and as their fragile friendships begin to crack and old resentments surface they become increasingly desperate to escape the woods. But they are not alone. Someone, or something, malevolent is watching them, intent on making them face their deepest fears and ensuring they never leave...
Sprung from prison on a legal technicality by his cocaine-addled attorney (Sean Penn), former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante (Pacino) stuns the local underworld when he vows to go straight. Taking a job managing a glitzy, low-life nightclub, he tracks down his onetime girlfriend (Penelope Ann Miller) and rekindles their romance, promising he's changed for good. But Carlito's dream of going legitimate is undermined at every turn by murderous former cronies and even deadlier young thugs out to make a name for themselves. Ultimately, however, his most dangerous enemy is himself. Despite good intentions, Carlito's misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of 'honour' will plunge him into a savage life-or-death battle against the relentless forces that refuse to let him go.
Rookie cop Billy Costigan grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello. It's his job to win Costello's trust and help his detective handlers bring Costello down. Meanwhile, detective Colin Sullivan has everyone's trust. No one suspects he's Costello's mole within the police department. How these covert lives cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the Academy Award-winning The Departed. Martin Scorsese directs, guiding a cast for the ages in a visceral tale of crime and consequences. This is searing, can't-look-away filmmaking: like looking into the eyes of a con - or a cop - with a gun. Multiple Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Abduction thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. Well-to-do family man Keller Dover (Jackman) is thrown into a world of paranoia and suspicion when his daughter and her friend go missing. With the only lead being a run-down RV which was parked outside the house, Detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) heads an investigation into the disappearance, tracks down the vehicle and arrests the driver (Dano), but a lack of evidence pointing to the man's guilt leads to him being released from custody. Feeling that justice will be a long time coming and that his daughter's life may be in danger, Keller takes matters into his own hands and begins a desperate search to find the two girls...
In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document...until now.
Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy and Morris Chestnut star in this thriller directed by David M. Rosenthal. After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend Dave (Chestnut), Leah (Lathan) decides to embrace life by going to a bar and hooking up with handsome stranger Carter (Ealy). As the two jump head first into a passionate relationship, Leah begins to notice changes in Carter's behaviour, culminating in an unprovoked attack on a man in a gas station. When Leah makes the decision to end the relationship Carter refuses to believe that their time is up and proceeds to stalk Leah in the most creepy and sinister ways.
Angela Dixon stars in this action thriller written and directed by Howard J. Ford. When her young daughter is abducted while on holiday in Morocco, single mother and ex-FBI agent Lisa Brennan (Dixon) will stop at nothing to get her back. Unable to trust anyone and facing a race against time, Lisa quickly begins her search through the murky backstreets of Marrakesh. However, after becoming implicated in the murder of a seemingly innocent man following a violent confrontation, Lisa is forced to turn to her government contacts for help.
James Mason and Joyce Howard star in this classic British mystery thriller co-written and directed by Leslie Arliss. The film follows Marian Ives (Howard), a young schoolteacher who travels to the Yorkshire Moors on the anniversary of her best friend's disappearance. When Marian is caught in a storm, she seeks shelter in the house of Stephen Deremid (Mason), a traumatised and reclusive ex-serviceman...
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen co-write and co-direct this American thriller. Seeking some fun whilst home for the Christmas holidays, friends Holly (Helen Rogers), Cali (Alexandra Turshen) and Mel (Lauren Molina) break into a seemingly empty mansion that Cali has told them belongs to her rich uncle. When they eventually discover the truth and try to leave the trio are confronted by angry groundskeeper Arthur (Larry Fessenden). In the ensuing scuffle to get out they send Arthur tumbling down the stairs to his apparent death leaving the girls with a difficult decision to make about what to do with his body...
Mark Wahlberg and Brie Larson star in this American crime drama directed by Rupert Wyatt. The film follows privileged literature professor and high stakes gambler Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) as he embarks on a relationship with his student Amy (Larson) while running up huge amounts of debt to numerous casino owners and gangsters. The supporting cast includes Jessica Lange as Bennett's mother Roberta, John Goodman as paternally inclined lender Frank, and Michael K. Williams as loan shark Neville Baraka.
While holidaying in Barbados, widowed Foreign Office employee Judith (Julie Andrews) begins a romance with handsome Russian military attaché Feodor (Omar Sharif). However, Feodor is in reality the second-in-command of the KGB, and when Judith returns to England she finds herself under suspicion of deliberately liaising with an enemy agent.
Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons stars in this drama adapted from the bestselling novel by Pascal Mercier. Swiss professor Raimund Gregorius saves a young woman from jumping off a bridge and committing suicide. She leaves before he gets the chance to talk to her but in her haste forgets her coat and a book - a memoir written by Amadeu do Prado - inside which is a train ticket to Lisbon. Hoping it will lead him to the woman, Raimund boards the train to Lisbon and goes on a search to discover more about the author's life, which is seen in flashbacks. He learns of Amadeu's time as a resistance fighter during the Salazar dictatorship and his relationship with his friends and the woman he loved, Estefânia. Along the way Raimund meets and befriends an optician, Mariana, and comes to some realisations about his own life.
Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac star in this thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel by Hossein Amini, who makes his directorial debut. In 1962 wealthy married couple Chester and Colette MacFarland (Mortensen and Dunst) are in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, when they meet shady tour guide Rydal (Isaac). Rydal is immediately taken with the beautiful Colette and doesn't hestitate when the couple invite him to dine with them. Later in the evening, however, he begins to realise that Chester is hiding a dark secret and soon finds himself embroiled in murder. Rydal helps the MacFarlands evade the authorities but his feelings for Colette cause tension between him and Chester, making the already precarious situation even more dangerous.
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.
Jason Statham and James Franco star in this action thriller adapted from Chuck Logan's novel by Sylvester Stallone. Following the death of his wife, former drug enforcement officer Phil Broker (Statham) moves to a quiet town with his young daughter, hoping to give her a better life. However, their peaceful existence is short-lived when Broker learns of the violence and dodgy dealings corrupting the town at the hands of local drug boss Gator Bodine (Franco). Broker soon finds himself fighting to protect both his daughter and the town. The film also stars Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth and Rachelle Lefevre.
Terence Young directs this 1950s espionage thriller starring John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and Christopher Lee. When the Swedish scientist Dr. Nils Ahlen (McCallum) discovers a means of transmuting sound impulses into electrical currents, his invention inevitably becomes the sought after tool of governments, businesses and criminals everywhere. When his wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) and key parts of his invention go missing, Ahlen enlists Inspector Peterson (Warner) of the local police to help him track them down. The quest leads them to snowy northern terrain where a showdown with the abductors beckons...
Low-budget British thriller starring Patrick Baladi. Adam (Baladi) lives at home with his wife and daughter. But when he wakes up in a hostel bed one morning with no recollection of how he got there, he begins to fear he has lost his former life and his family. As he tries to piece everything together, he finds those he seeks help from unwilling to believe his story. Will he be able to regain his old life? |
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