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Big screen adaptation of the Elmore Leonard crime novel. Bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) is forced to kidnap federal agent Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) while breaking out of prison. The two feel a strong sexual attraction for each other, but Karen still takes the opportunity to escape when it arises. Jack teams up with his old partner, Buddy (Ving Rhames), and they plan one last job together in Detroit. Intending to rob the mansion of millionaire Richard Ripley (Albert Brooks), the duo still have Karen on their tail, and also face competition from ex-con Glenn Michaels (Steve Zahn) and the psychopathic Maurice 'Snoopy' Miller (Don Cheadle).
John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan star in this crime thriller. Renowned con artist Raymond Cutter (Travolta) agrees to forge a famous painting by Monet and steal the original in exchange for his early release from prison. Hoping to spend more time with his terminally ill son Will (Sheridan), Raymond enlists the help of his criminal father (Plummer) to complete the job within his tight time schedule. Meanwhile, Detective Paisley (Abigail Spencer) trails Raymond in the hope that he will lead her to local crime boss Tommy Keegan (Anson Mount).
British thriller written, produced and directed by Mike Doxford. When Dean (Ian Sharp) returns home after serving several years in the British Army, he finds that his home town of Grimsby has changed beyond recognition. Greeted by his father's never-ending animosity and his once-cheery childhood friend's depression, Dean also encounters a new criminal gang that have taken over his once-beloved home town.
Fergus McDonell directs this classic thriller starring James Donald and Valerie Hobson as Murray and Eleanor, a married couple who are held to ransom in their own home after offering help to a group of injured men.
Action thriller sequel to 'Taken' (2008) and 'Taken 2' (2012) starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen. When former CIA agent Brian Mills (Neeson) discovers his wife Lenny (Janssen)'s dead body in their bedroom, he quickly realises that he is being framed for her murder and goes on the run. As he works to clear his name and battles against relentless police inspector Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) he must fight to protect the one last thing he has left in the world: his daughter. The cast also includes Dougray Scott, Maggie Grace and Jon Gries.
Lawrence Huntington directs this wartime thriller starring Movita and Michael Rennie. The film follows Marie Durand (Movita), who, after escaping from the Nazis, finds herself staying with German lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan (Wilfrid Lawson) and his assistant Anthony (Rennie). Marie falls for Anthony and the pair become more intimate as time goes on. But their burgeoning relationship ignites a jealous rage in Kristan...
Lawrence Huntington directs this wartime thriller starring Movita and Michael Rennie. The film follows Marie Durand (Movita), who, after escaping from the Nazis, finds herself staying with German lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan (Wilfrid Lawson) and his assistant Anthony (Rennie). Marie falls for Anthony and the pair become more intimate as time goes on. But their burgeoning relationship ignites a jealous rage in Kristan...
Academy Award-winning historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. The film follows Turing from his teenage years to his wartime work and the trouble he later faced in his private life. Along with his friend and colleague Joan Clarke (Keira Knightly) and the rest of his team at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park, Turing races against time to decipher the Nazi's Enigma machine during World War II. Despite playing a significant role in helping Britain defeat Germany, Turing is later convicted of homosexual acts and suffers greatly in his personal life as a result. The cast also includes Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Rory Kinnear. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cumberbatch) and Best Director, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Noir thriller directed by Jim Mickle and starring Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard. Texan small-business owner Richard Dane (Hall) has been hailed as the town hero since he protected his wife (Vinessa Shaw) and child by fatally shooting a would-be burglar inside their home. Residual guilt from the encounter is quickly dissipated by the police who assure Richard that he was acting in self-defence and therefore cannot be held accountable for the murder. However, when the burglar's recently-paroled father, Ben (Shepard), arrives in town and begins making explicit threats towards Richard and his family, Richard is forced to step up once again to protect them from harm...
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays an actress who takes a visiting Italian film crew on a tour of London, recounting horrifying events which occurred just two years previous in which two teenagers from Oxford travelled to London, driven by delusions with the intent to kill. This retelling of the horiffic true story recounts how the pair mercilessly murdered an innocent motorist who just happened to be passing by.
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 are in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, when they meet shady tour guide Rydal. 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.
Crime comedy directed by Luc Besson and starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer. An ex-mafia boss is moved to rural France under the witness protection program after snitching on old friends back in the States. Given new identities as the 'Blake' family, Fred (De Niro), his wife Maggie (Pfeiffer) and their two children Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D'Leo) struggle to fit in to the French way of life and it isn't long before their old ways of dealing with trouble attract attention from mafiosos back home...
1950s British film noir starring Adrienne Corri and William Russell. Fed up with living his mundane life, travel agency employee Bill Anderson (Russell) siezes his opportunity for a change when a customer returns tickets to Panama. Bill decides to take the tickets and go to Panama himself. While at the airport, however, he is distracted by the alluring Diana Maxwell (Corri). When the flight is delayed until the following day, Diana manages to get Bill involved in all manner of misadventures. Will he be glad of this change from the humdrum of his daily existence?
Classic thriller starring Christopher Lee. After a series of murders and robberies, Scotland Yard detective Inspector Elliott (Leo Genn) begins to suspect that the performers of a sinister travelling circus are responsible. As he investigates he has to contend with the freakish denizens of the circus, including a vicious dwarf, a psychotic knife-thrower, the deadly Ring Master (Heinz Drache), and the mysterious masked lion tamer, Gregor (Lee).
1930s thriller, adapted from a play by Edgar Wallace, starring Wilfrid Lawson and Bernard Lee. To say that Joe Connor (Henry Oscar) and Soapy Marks (Alastair Sim) are embittered following their release from prison would be an understatement. Ten years ago they helped a criminal mastermind known as 'The Terror' pull off a heist - only for his betrayal to rob them of their share of the prize and their freedom. Desperate for revenge the pair head to Monk's Hall Priory in search of The Terror. But with the place said to be haunted by the ghost of a monk, will they discover a different form of terror?
Kathryn Bigelow directs this Academy Award-nominated military action thriller about the mission by American special operations forces to capture or kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Shining a light on the secretive processes behind the world's greatest manhunt, the film details the work done by the intelligence team responsible for finally tracking down bin Laden, graphically documenting the unfolding ten-year intelligence hunt through the eyes of CIA analyst Maya (Jessica Chastain), whose initial minor role assumes ever-greater importance as a crack US Navy Seal team readies itself for its most important mission ever. Chastain won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama category.
Crime thriller based on 'Cross', the 12th novel in James Patterson's detective series. Tyler Perry stars as detective Alex Cross, who meets his ultimate match in serial killer Picasso (Matthew Fox). As Cross begins to investigate Picasso's string of sadistic murders, he receives the horrific news that his own wife has been killed. Cross vows to hunt down the killer if it's the last thing he does - but finds himself up against a true master of evasion and manipulation.
Dark comedy thriller following a man who becomes entangled in the manipulative plots of two women. After going the wrong way on a country road, Sam Bailey (Paul Burke) encounters a farmer's wife (Paula Davis) who is determined to get her hands on her husband's life insurance. He becomes embroiled in her plans for a better life and when his wife, Jan (Anastasia Bondarenko), finds out, she decides to up the stakes, making the situation even more complicated for Sam.
Action thriller starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Rookie CIA agent Matt Weston (Reynolds) is assigned to manage a South African safe house for renegade former operative Tobin Frost (Washington). The two men are forced to go on the run, however, when the house is attacked by mercenaries. Now, these unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to figure out exactly who it is that's trying to kill them.
Mallory Kane is a highly-trained black ops commando working for an international government security firm. After successfully completing her latest mission of freeing a Chinese journalist who had been held hostage, Mallory is betrayed and left for dead by a fellow agent. Realising that she is now the prime target of a band of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must turn the tables and get to the truth if she is to have any hope of staying alive.
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.
Thriller in which a successful lawyer attempts to civilise the last remaining woman from a wild rural clan. Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers) is a well-off country lawyer, married and with a young family. One day, in the woods near his home, Chris comes across a feral woman (Pollyanna McIntosh) bathing. With a love for order, the family man decides to bring her home with him and 'civilise' her. The woman is so wild he is at first forced to chain her in the basement. He introduces the woman to his wife, Belle (Angela Bettis), and his children, Peggy (Lauren Ashley Carter) and Brian (Zach Rand), and encourages them to interact with her to help bring out her human side. Will his experiment in 'civilisation' succeed, or will the woman threaten the civilised existence of the family? |
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