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Hot-shot defence attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) seems to have landed on his feet when he is poached by an international law firm in New York. Lomax is welcomed by the charismatic John Milton (Al Pacino), who seems to take an especially close interest in his young employee's career. Meanwhile, Lomax's wife Mary-Ann (Charlize Theron) suffers a breakdown, believing that she is losing her husband to a dark and powerful force.
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.
Phil Hawkins directs this British thriller starring Robert Englund, Finn Jones and Emily Berrington. When digital technology catches up to film lover and projectionist Stuart Lloyd (Englund) and he is made redundant, it tips him into a state of violent insanity. Stuart ultimately decides to make his own film in the cinema, trapping a young couple (Jones and Berrington) in the auditorium and capturing their very real terror as they face up to the prospect of losing their lives. Can anyone stop the deranged Stuart in time to save the couple?
Kenneth Branagh directs and co-stars in this action thriller starring Chris Pine as the iconic Jack Ryan character created by Tom Clancy. Following on from his career in the military, Jack now works as an analyst for the CIA's Financial Intelligence Unit under the guidance of William Harper (Kevin Costner). Believing he has stumbled upon a plot by Russian billionaire Viktor Cherevin (Branagh) to crash the United States economy, it isn't long before Jack is forced to go undercover and infiltrate Viktor's network. But with his wife Cathy (Keira Knightley) curious about the true nature of his work, Jack is under pressure to protect not only his country but his personal relationship as well...
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?
British gangster thriller depicting events surrounding the Essex drugs war in the mid-1990s. The film charts the ever-increasing drug shipments, gangland politics and extreme violence that culminated in the brutal murder of three gangsters - Tony Tucker (Terry Stone), Patrick Tate (Tamer Hassan) and Craig Rolfe (Neil Maskell) - in their Range Rover in Rettendon in 1995.
Badly wounded and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean by fishermen, and is able to recall neither who he is nor what happened to him. His only clue to his identity is the number of a Swiss bank account which has been etched into a device implanted in his body. Following the lead to Zurich, he discovers money, passports and a gun waiting for him, but also earns the attention of the security services and has to leave in a hurry. He then persuades a young woman named Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris, where he hopes to find out his true identity and discover the reason why the CIA are taking such an interest in him. Directed by Doug Liman ('Swingers', 'Go').
Psychological thriller set in the American ballet world starring Natalie Portman in an award-winning performance. Nina (Portman) is a dancer in a New York City ballet company. Still living with her domineering and obsessive mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), a former ballerina herself, Nina barely has a life outside her dancing. When the company's artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for a major new production of Swan Lake, Nina finds herself losing sight of her own identity as she becomes caught up in a twisted competitive friendship with her rival Lily (Mila Kunis). Portman won the 2011 Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.
Kevin Costner stars as Eliot Ness, an idealistic Treasury official who vows to bring an end to Al Capone's (Robert De Niro) corrupt hold over Prohibition-era Chicago. To this end, Ness puts together an elite team of law-enforcement officers (played by Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith), and begins making bold strikes at Capone's bootlegging operation. Nevertheless, Capone's empire continues to thrive, and Ness realises that he must try a different approach. Brian De Palma directs, from a David Mamet screenplay, and Sean Connery won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his efforts.
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård and Christopher Plummer star in David Fincher's American remake of the Swedish thriller based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson's best-selling crime trilogy. Mikael Blomkvist (Craig), journalist and part-owner of 'Millenium' magazine, has just lost a costly legal case against the corrupt businessman, Hans-Erik Wennerström (Ulf Friberg). The financial hit leaves him with little choice but to take a job offered to him by Henrik Vanger (Plummer), investigating the disappearance of a young woman from the Vanger family some four decades ago. Blomkvist's search for the truth brings him into contact with Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker with special skill as a researcher. As the pair set to work on the case, they begin to make some surprising discoveries about the Vanger family and their history. The film was nominated for five Oscars and won an award for Best Film Editing.
Steven Soderbergh directs this multi-starrer thriller charting the rapid progress of a lethal airborne human virus that is spread by simple human contact and kills within days. As the pandemic sweeps the globe, an international team of medics races against time to contain the mutating bug. The cast includes Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law.
George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, is doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the service, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects - all experienced, skilled and successful agents - but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment. An all-star cast explodes on the screen in this gripping and tense adaptation of John le Carré’s classic spy novel.
Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, easily influenced and keen to live the good life. When he joins up with the local Mob family, all his dreams seemingly come true. But living a life of crime, as Henry soon finds out, can be very dangerous. Especially when the guys in your crew, the Goodfellas, are psychotic and can't be trusted. Covering a 30-year stretch in the lives of three key Mafia figures, this bold, unpredictable classic was one of the most powerful films of the 90's.
Former FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen), who specialises in catching serial killers, is brought out of early retirement to track down a murderer who bludgeons entire families only when the moon is full. Graham's tactic is to enter the mind of the deranged criminal, which turns out to have an enormous emotional strain attached. When he seeks advice from imprisoned psychiatrist/psychopath Dr Lecter (Brian Cox), he ends up endangering himself and his family. Based on the novel which was the precursor to 'Silence of the Lambs'. The 18-minute bonus feature 'Inside Manhunter' is also included.
Indie crime thriller starring Nick Stahl as Noah Cordin, a young small-town detective investigating the accidental murder of an eight-year-old boy during a house robbery. Along with his partner, Leslie Spencer (Rachel Nichols), Noah must overcome the obstacles posed by small-town loyalties and deep-rooted suspicions to track down the perpetrators. Meryl Streep's daughter Grace Gummer co-stars as Nat Collins, a local barmaid who appears to be implicated in the crime.
A woman discovers she has some uninvited house guests in this thriller from director Andrew Paquin. After recently separating from her husband, Alice (Rachel Blanchard) shows prospective buyers around the home she has now decided to sell. Unbeknown to Alice, however, two psychopathic killers, David (Brian Geraghty) and Lila (Tricia Helfer), are hiding in the house and soon make their presence felt. After murdering one of her friends, they then imprison Alice in the basement, before acting out their fantasies of domestic bliss, all the while dispatching any visitors unlucky enough to call. The director's sister, Anna Paquin, also co-stars with her fellow 'True Blood' actor, Stephen Moyer.
A college initiation prank goes horribly wrong in this psychological thriller from first time director Will Canon. As part of their induction to the college, Frank (Jon Foster), the overbearing head of his fraternity, decides to test his 'brothers' to the limit by issuing each of them with a gun and telling them to rob a local store. The initiates are supposed to be stopped from pulling their guns at the last moment by a fellow student, but events take a turn for the worse when Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci) winds up being shot by store worker Mike (Arlen Escarpeta). When wounded Kevin struggles back to the college and Frank refuses to compromise himself by alerting the authorities, fellow initiate Adam (Trevor Morgan) is sent back to the shop to try to put things right, but his problems are only just beginning.
Brooding psychological thriller, starring Christian Bale. Trevor Reznik (Bale) is a factory machine-operator who is suffering from crippling insomnia. His weight has plummeted, he suffers from hallucinations, and he finds himself unable to concentrate at work, leading to a horrific accident involving one of his co-workers. Ostracised from the other men at the factory, Reznik starts finding threatening notes and begins to fear that someone is trying to kill him. Is his paranoia part of his psychological breakdown, or is it possibly justified?
Crime thriller in which a group of armoured transport security employees decide to stage a heist against their own company. Bored of their middle rate existence, Cochrane (Matt Dillon), Quinn (Jean Reno), Baines (Laurence Fishburne), Palmer (Amaury Nolasco) and Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich) seize the opportunity to plot a heist when they are told of an imminent job involving the transport of $42 million. An obstacle comes in their way when new employee Ty Hackett (Columbus Short) is grouped with them. Desperate to continue with their plan, they use Ty's poverty to convince him to take part in the heist. However, even the most fail-safe plans have a way of going awry...
The most famous shark of all time is back... bigger and more terrifying than ever in this Jaws adventure starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. Florida's new "Undersea Kingdom" (a maze of underwater plexiglass tunnels) is terrorised by a giant female great white shark, hell-bent on bloodthirsty revenge.
In the fifth installment of the Saw franchise, Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.
When Graham Ness (Mel Gibson) and his family awaken to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard, they're told extraterrestrials are responsible. As they watch with growing dread, news reports tell of similar "signs" suddenly appearing all over the world! Don't even blink as razor-sharp high definition transports you to a new dimension of awe and terror. Jump out of your skin as the spectacularly enhanced audio quality intensifies every gasp, heartbeat and otherworldly echo.
Claire Bartel is a busy wife, mother and career woman whose family is placed in grave jeopardy when she hires Peyton Flanders, a seemingly perfect nanny with a chilling secret agenda. By the time Claire discovers Peyton's deadly plan for revenge, it may already be too late to save herself and her family. From the absorbing opening to the unforgettable climax, this critically acclaimed winner delivers a sensational mix of thrills, chills and surprises.
Acclaimed action helmer John Woo directs superstars Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in Face/ Off. Now, the ultimate cat and mouse battle is more suspenseful than ever in this revolutionary new format. To avenge his son's senseless murder, FBI agent Sean Archer undergoes radical surgery allowing him to switch faces with comatose terrorist Caster Troy. But when Castor awakens and assumes Sean's identity, the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare. Lose yourself in mind-numbing visual effects that leap off the screen in 1080p, and absorb the thunderous impact of enhanced audio. |
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