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A violent crime heist thriller from Tarantino collaborator (and fellow ex-video store employee) Roger Avary. An American safecracker (Eric Stoltz) agrees to help a Parisian thief rob a bank on Bastille Day. However, the night before the robbery he meets a beautiful woman called Zoe (Julie Delpy). The robbery goes wrong and ends in violence. Luckily, Zoe turns out to be one of the bank clerks and helps her new found friend escape from the police.
Action thriller disaster movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario. When a massive earthquake brings devastation to California LA Fire Department helicopter pilot Ray Gaines (Johnson) rescues his soon-to-be ex-wife Emma (Gugino) and the two make their way to San Fransisco in an attempt to save their daughter Blake (Daddario), but their journey is full of unimaginable dangers. Will they arrive in one piece and be able to protect their daughter from harm? The film also stars Paul Giamatti, Ioan Gruffudd and Kylie Minogue.
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.
Gabe Turner writes and directs this British thriller about two generations of London gangs. Retired gangster Mitch (Doug Allen) is forced to return to his previous occupation when his old friend is attacked and left for dead. Learning to adapt to the new way of doing things Mitch goes on a vengeance spree teaching the young guns some of his old tricks along the way. The cast also includes Harley Alexander-Sule, David Essex and Vas Blackwood.
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.
Eugenio Mira directs this thriller starring Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Kerry Bishé. Tom Selznick (Wood) is the most talented concert pianist of his generation. However, lately Tom's career has stalled due to crippling bouts of stage fright, which interfere with his ability to perform at the highest level. After seeking help for his issues, Tom returns to the stage for a sold out comeback performance, supported by his wife Emma (Bishé). All is going well until Tom turns the page on his sheet music and finds a threatening message scrawled there. Soon, via an earpiece, Tom is put in touch with his tormenter, Clem (Cusack). Clem assures him that he has a high-powered rifle trained on him and will open fire if Tom hits one wrong note. How will the virtuoso cope under a very different kind of performance pressure?
Paddy Considine stars in this British thriller in which a young woman's family arrange for her to be honour killed. When British-Pakistani Londoner Mona (Aiysha Hart) decides to run away with her disapproved lover Tanvir (Nikesh Patel), her family are so ashamed by her actions that they hire a bounty hunter (Considine) to track her down and kill her. Aware of the potential consequences of their decision, Mona and Tanvir strive to maintain a low profile. Will Mona be able to evade death while being targeted by her potential killer?
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...
Joseph Ruben directs this suspense thriller starring Michael Keaton and Michelle Monaghan. It's New Year's Eve and Sara (Monaghan) is spending the night alone in her penthouse apartment. When the new man in her life, Hollander (Keaton) shows up she learns the disturbing truth about his past. Hollander was a diamond thief, and he and his sadistic partner will stop at nothing to find the diamonds hidden somewhere in Penthouse North.
In this visually spectacular blend of astonishing illusions and exhilarating action from director Louis Leterrier, four talented magicians mesmerise an international audience with a series of bold and original heists, all the while pursuing a hidden agenda that has the FBI and Interpol scrambling to anticipate their next move.
Dark comedy thriller starring Tim Roth and Jack O'Connell. When Adam (O'Connell) is asked to be the driver for a business associate of his mother's crime boss boyfriend, he soon finds out that this business associate is Roy (Roth) - an aging hitman on the eve of his retirement. While Adam drives Roy to what he hopes are his last ever jobs, a series of unexpected events lands the pair in a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious Latvian woman (Talulah Riley).
1950s British crime thriller. Robert Matthews (Emrys Jones) is arrested in Cornwall when he is mistaken for convict John Barlow, to whom he bears a striking resemblance. When Barlow (also Jones) hears of this, he makes his way to the man's cottage and takes his place. After surviving a local shipwreck Robert's fiancée Ann Farrington (Zena Marshall) is taken in by Barlow, who maintains his imposture but soon discovers that Matthews is not all he seems.
Rear Window:
The Birds:
Vertigo:
Psycho:
Triple bill of thrilling John Grisham adaptations.
The Client
The Pelican Brief
A Time to Kill
Gritty crime thriller based on real events in 1980s England. Donald Sumpter stars as Donald Nielson, an obsessive ex-army man who uses his military skills to rob a string of local post offices after his business flounders. An accidental killing during one of these raids leads Nielson to progress to murder, and he kills several postmasters before plotting his most infamous crime: the kidnapping of Lesley Whittle (Debbie Farrington), the 17-year-old daughter of a local wealthy businessman.
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.
British suspense thriller following a young woman who is lured back to her home town having left years before in search of her missing mother. Rachael (Laura Fraser) is tricked into returning home by her ex-boyfriend, Rafe (Callum Blue), who tells her that her father is dying. While there, however, she grows closer to discovering what happened to her mother but, ultimately, the truth will lead her to danger.
Robert Neville (Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague - "The Infected" - lurk in the shadows...watching Nevile's every move...waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankin's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered...and quickly running out of time.
Another case for American private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum, reprising the role from 'Farewell My Lovely'). While in London Marlowe is called upon by General Sternwood (James Stewart), who is being blackmailed over his daughter Camilla's (Candy Clark) gambling debts. The mystery deepens when the gun-running husband of Sternwood's other daughter, Charlotte (Sarah Miles), goes missing, and Marlowe finds himself surrounded by the usual web of intrigue and murder.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s kick-ass tribute to hard crime capers is also a pop culture phenomenon that redefined cinema. With its unforgettable cast of characters, hip chart-topping soundtrack, and edgy incomparable style, PULP FICTION took the world by storm, winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or as well as an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Spanning interweaving tales of low rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster’s wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis), with a stellar supporting cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, and Christopher Walken, it’s a wildly entertaining and exhilarating adventure with violence and redemption.
Stylish Spanish horror about a maniac 'purifying' the unworthy in a dimly-lit former brothel. Antonio Frau has just served 25 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in the heat of a dispute and, as it quickly becomes plain, he's a rather poor advert for rehabilitation. While inside, Antonio has inherited The Pension Paraiso - a decrepit brothel - from a dead relative which he puts to good use as his own comfortable domicile - even buying a new freezer. On an Internet dating service, he meets and marries a lovely woman and is soon living the straight life, renovating the bordello to its former muted glory. However, the formerly felonious hotelier, it appears, is also running a little sideline in redemption in room H6.. Pretty soon the neighbourhood is a rather uncomfortable place for the pimps, racketeers and doxies that walk its streets.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s kick-ass tribute to hard crime capers is also a pop culture phenomenon that redefined cinema. With its unforgettable cast of characters, hip chart-topping soundtrack, and edgy incomparable style, PULP FICTION took the world by storm, winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or as well as an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Spanning interweaving tales of low rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster’s wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis), with a stellar supporting cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, and Christopher Walken, it’s a wildly entertaining and exhilarating adventure with violence and redemption.
It’s nonstop thrills when George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers—two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree! After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar’s truly notorious clientele, they’re forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive! From Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the creators of Grindhouse, From Dusk Till Dawn is explosive action entertainment! |
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