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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.
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.
All eight episodes from the third season of the hit drama in which two women find themselves tangled in a deadly web of obsession. In this season, assassin Villanelle goes back to her roots to settle an old score, and Eve adjusts to her new civilian life while trying to patch things up with Niko.
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.
Thriller about the making of a Unabomber-type dissident starring Mark Wahlberg. Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is a former Marine sniper who, three years ago, participated in a failed illegal mission within Ethiopia. Now he finds that the government, or rather certain forces within it, has a vested interest in making him disappear. Living a simple life in a shack in the woods with his dog, he's tried very hard up to now to leave his former life behind but now its game on. A bent CIA operative, Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) appears and asks Swagger to help him foil a plot to kill the president that only he knows about. Furthermore, Johnson ups his credibility by furnishing Swagger a massive arsenal of weaponry with which to do the job. Is this a genuine plot, though, or is Swagger being elaborately set up? And anyway, has Swagger enough patriotism left in him to be coaxed into de-retiring for the sake of a country that's been trying to off him?
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.
Cold War thriller adapted by Frederick Forsyth from his own bestseller. When Soviet spy Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan) is charged with bringing about the demise of NATO, he decides his best bet is to detonate an American nuclear bomb at a British air base. The only man who can stand in his way is veteran counter-espionage expert John Preston (Michael Caine), but he must fight the opposition of his bosses before they agree to take the threat seriously.
In 1790 the evil Lestat (Tom Cruise), a 200-year old vampire, decides he wants a buddy and chooses Louis (Brad Pitt). However, despite Louis' desire for death after his young wife's demise, Lestat hasn't banked on Louis being so guilt-ridden when it comes to sucking blood from humans. So whilst Lestat continues to feast upon human flesh, Louis sticks to rats and chickens. That is, until he meets the young Claudia (Kirstan Dunst). Two hundred years later, Louis tells his story to a young reporter (Christian Slater).
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.
This terrifying thriller is based on Ira Levin's best seller in which Dr. Josel Mengele (Gregory Peck), alive and living in South America gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a mysterious project. Ezra Lleberman (Laurence Olivier), begins to unravel the conspiracy and discovers that Mengele has cloned 94 young Hitlers. Suddenly the terrifying extent of Mengele's plan is revealed: twisting genetic science to become a new weapon of global horror.
Director's cut of the violent action thriller from Luc Besson starring
Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. In New York City, 12-year-old Mathilda
(Portman) witnesses her family being gunned down by psychotic
government official Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) and his team of
corrupt cops. She seeks shelter with lone hitman Leon (Reno) and, when
she learns his profession, demands he train her so she can avenge the
slaying of her family.
Director's cut of the violent action thriller from Luc Besson starring
Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. In New York City, 12-year-old Mathilda
(Portman) witnesses her family being gunned down by psychotic
government official Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) and his team of
corrupt cops. She seeks shelter with lone hitman Leon (Reno) and, when
she learns his profession, demands he train her so she can avenge the
slaying of her family.
Idris Elba stars as maverick detective John Luther in this gripping, smart and entertaining thriller. A detective working for London’s Serious Crime Unit, Luther is a dedicated policeman, an inspired maker of connections and a whirlwind genius. He is dazzling, obsessive and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. Throughout the series, Luther faces a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted, predator and prey. But as the stakes get ever higher and more personal, Luther’s lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation.
Low-budget US action thriller. Outlaw brothers Miles and Dominic Pierce (Aria Emory and Drew Harwood) take refuge in the barren town of Deml with Miles hurt and in need of medical attention. They're on the hunt for the man who killed their father but instead they find themselves battling a family of mutated, cannibalistic killers in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Will they make it out of the town alive to avenge their father?
British thriller written and directed by Ben Parker. After his small submersible ship gets into trouble while undertaking a secret recovery mission off the coast of North Korea, Swedish pilot Mats (Johannes Kuhnke) and his three-man US Special Ops team are left trapped underwater. Unaware if their support vessel has been captured by enemy forces, the crew face some important decisions as they attempt to find a solution before their time runs out.
Lou Diamond Phillips stars in this noir crime thriller. The film follows Detective Russell Logan (Diamond Phillips) as he is tormented by the so-called Pentagram Killer, Patrick Channing (Jeff Kober), who is terrorising Los Angeles. When he starts to hear a disembodied voice and the killings resume, Logan enlists local psychic Tess Seaton (Tracy Griffith) to help him capture the satanic serial killer.
The Now You See Me 3-film collection pulls back the curtain on The Four Horsemen's dazzling mix of illusions, heists, and cat-and-mouse games.
From Director Walter Hill comes a battle of gigantic proportions looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they’re after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader’s death. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty.
Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple star in this fantasy thriller adapted from the novel by Joe Hill and directed by Alexandre Aja. 26-year-old Ignatius 'Ig' Perrish has been accused of the rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams (Temple). After a night of drinking he wakes up to discover horns sprouting from his temples. Though he can't understand why they have appeared, Ig soon realises that the horns have the ability to make people admit their darkest secrets and act on selfish desires. He decides to prove his innocence by using this new power to find Merrin's real killer and exact revenge. The cast also includes Heather Graham, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson and David Morse.
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality – little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.
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.
One of the seminal American films of the 1970s, Roman Polanski's detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up dead at the bottom of a reservoir. Realising he has been used, Gittes confronts Mulwray's widow, Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), a woman who seems to have plenty of secrets of her own, not least her ambiguous relationship with her father, Noah Cross (John Huston).
Cold war thriller, based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carré, in which a semi-retired intelligence officer is assigned the task of uncovering a high-ranking Soviet agent within MI6. When British agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) discovers, courtesy of an affair, that there may be a Russian agent operating at a high level in MI6, it is clear that an investigation into the issue will be delicate matter. Enter George Smiley (Gary Oldman), an old hand in intelligence circles, and his associate, Peter Gulliam (Benedict Cumberbatch). The pair are assigned the task of tracking down the spy, but must do so under the radar of the MI6 leadership, for the very reason that they are all under suspicion... |
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