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Thriller starring Will Yun Lee and Miguel Ferrer in which four assassins meet over dinner in Hong Kong, with violence very much on the menu. Though the meal begins jovially enough, with each of the killers reflecting on past hits and other exploits, tensions within the group gradually reveal themselves and, ultimately, it will be with deeds rather than words that the members of the table prove their lethal skills.
Hard-hitting 1950s crime drama exploring racism towards immigrants among the London police and public. Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham), a fair-skinned West Indian immigrant, is discovered murdered. To the police, led by Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) and Inspector Learoyd (Michael Craig), the case seems clear cut - Sapphire must have been killed by a member of the black community. However, when Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron) turns up at the police station and Sapphire's true ethnic roots become known, Hazard and Learoyd must face up to the racism of two communities and, quite possibly, their own...
Baltasar Kormákur directs this tense thriller about a couple's desperate race against time to save their daughter's life. With their daughter Chloe (Mia Stallard) suffering from a rare degenerative lung disease and donor organs in short supply, Paul and Diane Stanton (Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger) travel to Mexico in search of a doctor with links to the local underworld. With time running out and their search for a donor faltering, Paul soon realises he'll have to do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to save the life of his daughter.
Supernatural suspense thriller starring Christina Ricci. While drifting aimlessly across rural England, American backpacker Cassie (Ricci) is hit by a car in Somerset and loses her memory. While recovering from the accident, Cassie is invited to stay at the home of the car's driver, Marion (Kerry Fox), where Cassie forms a bond with Marion's stepson Michael (Harry Forrester). Michael, an archaeologist, has just begun researching a recently discovered church dating back to the first century. As Cassie recovers from her amnesia, she starts experiencing terrifying premonitions about the townspeople and their deaths, and a shocking link to Michael's archeological research findings is uncovered.
Low-budget revenge Western. Dustin Leighton stars as Frank Harden, a man on the run who rescues a lost Mexican girl forced to work as a prostitute. It soon transpires, however, that our hero is harbouring some dark secrets of his own...
British director Tom Harper's debut feature is a coming-of-age drama/thriller. Teenagers David (Thomas Turgoose) and Emily (Holly Grainger) have grown up together in a caravan park on the windswept Norfolk coast. When it emerges that Emily is to be sent away against her will to live with her father, David agrees to help her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as fears grow that Emily has been kidnapped and a large-scale police search gets underway, David finds himself swept up in a situation out of his control and resorts to drastic measures to protect his friend. Steven Mackintosh and Rafe Spall co-star.
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.
Thriller-horror. Four young friends are driving along a remote forest road when their car breaks down. A sudden and violent attack by a grizzly bear leads to the friends becoming trapped inside the car and battling to survive as they try to outwit the powerful and surprisingly intelligent creature.
A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist, against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly unravels and all bets are off.
Charles Crichton directs this Ealing Studios thriller starring Jack Hawkins. When one of the engines on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane he is flying catches fire, test pilot John Mitchell (Hawkins) refuses to obey orders to jettison the aircraft into the Irish Sea.
Brittany Murphy stars in this psychological thriller as Alice, an emotionally fragile young screenwriter who retreats to a remote house in order to get her latest script finished on time. A severe case of writer's block and a series of mysterious and terrifying occurences in the house conspire to drive her to a nervous breakdown. Thora Birch and Tammy Maynard co-star.
Jennifer Lynch directs this thriller starring Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman as two FBI agents posted to a remote police station in Santa Fe to investigate a series of gruesome murders carried out by a mysterious masked gang. As the agents interrogate various witnesses and victims, the testimonies diverge more and more wildly as the seedy underbelly of the community - complete with corrupt police officers, drug addicts and sadistic sexual deviants - is grimly revealed.
After 18 years in prison, convicted murderer Nicky Dyden (Billy Connolly) is now on the outside and beginning a promising career as a sculptor - a skill he perfected during his time behind bars. However, not everyone is convinced that Dryden has turned over a new leaf and, when the ex-con is spotted on the streets again, his arresting officer Keltie (Ken Stott) sets out to track him down. Are Keltie's suspicions correct or is the enigmatic Dryden just the victim of a copper who can't let go?
Interracial strife hits Atoka County, Alabama in Director Terence Young's tense thriller. When local white woman Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped one night, apparently by a black man, the subsequent murder of a black teenager threatens to undermine the fragile balancing act of local County Sheriff 'Big Track' Bascomb (Lee Marvin). Undermined by his Klan-supporting deputy (Cameron Mitchell) and local employer/Mayor, Hardy Riddle (David Huddlestone), Bascomb tries to keep the lid on the powder-keg of a potential race-war.
Second sequel to Takashi Miike's ultra-violent 1999 film 'Dead or Alive', set in a post-apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a half crazed mayor. Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi), a hard-boiled cop, and Ryô (Sho Aikawa), a mellow drifter, hook up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshii's son, the wheels are set in motion for the inevitable outrageously bloody showdown.
Thriller in which a weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb and they are stuck in the water many miles from shore, with baby Sara left alone on board. Sara's mother Amy must contend with her aqua-phobia as well as the group's increasing desperation, as the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon the exhaustion of keeping afloat and the struggle to get back on board begin to take a terrible toll. The happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.
Sci-fi film noir filmed in a unique style in which real actors are transformed through motion-capture animation to create a black and white comic-strip style. Set in a near-future Paris, the film depicts the city as a menacing place dominated by the vast and all-seeing Avalon Corporation, which has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life through its sales of the ultimate commodities: youth and beauty. When a beautiful young scientist, Ilona (Romola Garai) is kidnapped, police officer Barthélémy Karas (Daniel Craig) is assigned to solve the case. His investigation leads him down a deadly path, and he eventually discovers that events that took place back in 2006 have irrevocably affected the future of humankind with dire consequences.
London gangster film based on the story of real life gang boss Charlie Richardson (played by ex-Bros star Luke Goss), who, along with his brother Eddy (Langley Kirkwood), ruled the criminal underworld of South London in the early 1960s. As Charlie gets increasingly powerful, he becomes involved with white South African businessman Richard Waldeck (Leslie Grantham), and ends up being party to political crimes against members of the ANC. In 1966 Charlie is caught and put on trial, but the witnesses who testify at his court case are gruesomely punished by his gang, leading to the Judge (Antony Carrick) handing down a 25-year sentence in what bcame known as the 'Torture Trial'. Steven Berkoff and Anita Dobson play Charlie's parents.
An erotic thriller starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Alice (Graham) bumps into famous mountaineer Adam (Fiennes) on a street in London and within days is engaged to him. Adam's apparent only skeleton in his closet is that his previous girlfriend died whilst climbing with him. However, Alice begins to receive anonymous letters telling her things she did not know about her betrothed and she soon begins to question his devotion to her; is it really love or a very dangerous obsession?
Palestinian thriller directed by Hany Abu-Assad. The film, set in occupied Palestine, follows three freedom fighters Omar (Adam Bakri), Amjad (Samer Bisharat) and group leader Tarek (Eyad Hourani). After a planned ambush on an Israeli guard, who is shot by Amjad, Omar ends up getting arrested. He is later released after agreeing to work for the authorities as an informer. Meahwhile, Amjad has become involved with Tarek's sister and Omar's girlfriend Nadja (Leem Lubany), who, having heard rumours of his betrayal, doubts whether Omar can be trusted. Amidst the chaos, will Omar take revenge on Amjad or continue his fight against their common enemy?
Arriving in Moscow, Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
Crime thriller starring Patrick Muldoon as Matt Sullivan, a man haunted by a tragic drink-driving accident several years before in which he knocked down and killed a young girl. His guilt about the accident has caused him to suffer paranoid delusions, and now, driving to visit the family of his new girlfriend, Dawn (Keegan Connor Tracy) in their reclusive woodland home, the inner demons seem to be getting worse. First he is attacked by an axe-wielding psychopath in his motel room, then Dawn mysteriously disappears before turning on him herself. It transpires that Dawn and her family have their own very personal reasons for taking their revenge on the terrified Matt...
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