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Paul W.S. Anderson directs this thriller starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost. In a dystopian London docklands a gang of youths vie with each other for status within the violent, criminal subculture that exists around ram-raiding and joyriding. Law plays Billy, the King of Joyriders, recently released from prison who takes up with his old girlfriend, Jo (Frost), and is soon up to his old mischief. However, there is a new kid on the block in the shape of Tommy (Sean Pertwee), who sees ram-raiding as a business rather than a lark. Meanwhile the police are hovering around waiting for Billy to step out of line.
Mark Wahlberg and Brie Larson star in this American crime drama directed by Rupert Wyatt. The film follows privileged literature professor and high stakes gambler Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) as he embarks on a relationship with his student Amy (Larson) while running up huge amounts of debt to numerous casino owners and gangsters. The supporting cast includes Jessica Lange as Bennett's mother Roberta, John Goodman as paternally inclined lender Frank, and Michael K. Williams as loan shark Neville Baraka.
The last remaining residents of a run-down London tower block find themselves targeted by a deadly sniper, in this tense British thriller written by James Moran. When they witness the brutal murder of a youth in their block, Becky (Sheridan Smith) and the other remaining residents on the 12th floor keep quiet, fearing retribution. One year later, and with the police investigation stalled, they awake one morning to find all communications to the outside world cut. Panic quickly spreads through the group when they begin to be picked off by an unknown sniper with a high-tech rifle, who prevents anyone from escaping the building, and shoots anything that moves. As the situation becomes ever more desperate, the group join together to try and find a way out. But with booby traps at every exit, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone will make it out alive.
Psychological horror thriller. After a lengthy night out drinking, an unnamed banker (Axel Wedekind) wakes up in a locked vault without any recollection of how he got there. Realising he is trapped, along with a woman (Rungano Nyoni), with no food or water, the pair must try and find a way out or discover why they were put there before starvation or dehydration takes over.
Martin Sheen and Mena Suvari star in this gritty crime thriller. After arresting her own partner to prevent him from shooting a handcuffed citizen, officer Jessica Dawson (Suvari) is transferred to internal affairs and tasked with investigating two narcotics detectives (Jesse Bradford and Lochlyn Munro) accused of killing an innocent teenager during a drugs raid. Determined to uncover the truth behind a possible cover-up and bring the perpetrators to justice, the unflinching detective finds her life under increasing threat as she clashes with head of department Captain Richards (Sheen) and his staff.
Steven Quale directs this disaster thriller starring Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne Callies. After a devastating tornado hits during a high school graduation, a group of students try to document the events and aftermath to find out how and why it struck with such force. Just as they think they are safe, the tornado begins to regenerate and split into several terrifying storms. In the heart of the tornado storm the professional meteorologists use the students' data to try to save as many people as possible.
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...
Screen adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, the film is set both before and after 'Sin City' (2005). Powers Boothe returns as corrupt politician Senator Roark, who is being hunted down by Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) after the suicide of her friend and protector John Hartigan (Bruce Willis). Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a shady gambler determined to bring down the city's biggest villain; and Josh Brolin plays Dwight McCarthy, a man struggling to maintain control over his life and personal demons while fending off his ex-girlfriend Ava (Eva Green)'s wealthy husband Damien Lord (Marton Csokas). The ensemble cast also includes Mickey Rourke, Juno Temple and Jeremy Piven.
True crime thriller directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon. The film follows the 1993 murder and mutilation of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the resulting trial of the three teenage boys found guilty of the killings. Firth plays visiting private investigator Ron Lax who leads the defence of the suspected killers. Through his work on the case and conversations with Pam Hobbs (Witherspoon), the mother of one of the dead children, Ron finds there may be more to the deaths than the authorities think, but will it be enough to contend with the beliefs of the small Bible Belt community?
Collection of four British crime thrillers from the 1950s. In 'High Treason' (1951), after the destruction of the SS Asia Star in London Docks, Commander 'Robbie' Brennan (Liam Redmond) joins forces with Special Branch and MI5 to investigate an underground terrorist group plotting acts of sabotage. They discover that the group are planning an attack on a power station. Can they stop them before it's too late? In 'The Big Chance' (1957), fed up with living his mundane life, travel agency employee Bill Anderson (William 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 (Adrienne 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? In 'Dublin Nightmare' (1958), adapted from the novel by Robin Estridge, Steve Lawlor (Richard Leech) is reported dead following a car accident after he helped a Republican gang rob a Northern Irish security vehicle. The loot has gone missing and while the gang believe the car passenger Danny O'Callaghan (Pat O'Sullivan) has betrayed them, Lawlor's former girlfriend is convinced he is still alive. His photographer friend John Kevin (William Sylvester) investigates. In 'Deadly Nightshade' (1953) 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.
Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Woody Harrelson star in this crime thriller from director Scott Cooper. Russell Baze (Bale) works in a dead-end job trying to make ends meet so he can support his girlfriend Lena (Zoe Saldana) and his ailing father. After returning from serving in Iraq, Russell's younger brother Rodney (Affleck) gets involved with the ruthless Harlan DeGroat (Harrelson) and his crime syndicate. When he fails to come home and the police are unable to find him, Russell puts his own life in danger to save his brother. The film also stars Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe and Sam Shepard with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ridley Scott and the late Tony Scott among its producers.
Drama directed by Aimee Lagos exploring the events which lead up to a carjacking and the people involved. Kevin (J. Michael Trautmann) is a troubled young white man with a desire to join a local black gang but his friend, Dre (Evan Ross), tries his best to stop him doing so. Meanwhile, two college girls, Carley and Lena (Brittany Snow and Christian Serratos), are on the eve of their graduation and trying to decide where to go to school next. The film highlights the differences between class and race, and brings them together in a chaotic climax.
Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York police officer, private detective Billy Taggart takes on his toughest case yet: following the wife of the city's hard-nosed mayor, who's convinced she's cheating on him. But by the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Billy is already in too deep. Now, with his freedom - and quite possibly his life - on the line, Billy will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth, and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.
Mystery crime drama starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike. Adapted from a novel in Lee Child's bestselling crime series, the film sees Cruise in the title role as an ex-military policeman-turned-vigilante drifter who is called in to investigate after an expert sniper takes the lives of five random victims. When the authorities pull in former army sniper James Barr (Joseph Sikora) they are certain they have the perpetrator, but Barr believes he's been set up and asks that Jack Reacher be assigned to the case. At first, Reacher is wary of Barr but after some thorough investigation he is led to believe there is an unseen force pulling the strings of the enquiry and he's determined to get to the truth.
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).
Winner of the Best Director award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day, a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best - Drive!
Harrison Ford reprises his role as CIA Agent Jack Ryan in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel. When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment: to investigate the murder of one of the President's friends, a prominent US businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels.
Anthony Hopkins returns in his finest and most chilling performance yet, as the malevolent Dr Hannibal Lecter. FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) is called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy". To stop the brutal murders from continuing, Graham must first let Lecter inside his head. Prepare to be disturbed as Graham confronts the brilliantly sinister Lecter in this dark and heart-pounding thriller. With an outstanding cast including Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson and Harvey Keitel plus Mary Louise Parker and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
A serial killer is on the loose in London, targeting the members of an already beleaguered police force. Tough, homophobic, plain clothes copper Brant is assigned to the case along with his openly gay partner, Porter Nash. As the uniformed body count rises and pressure mounts from all sides, a deadly game of wits plays out between Brant and his quarry, neither of whom are willing to lose without a brutal fight.
Rowan Joffe writes and directs this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel. Updating the story from its original 1930s setting to the mid-1960s world of mods and rockers, the film stars Sam Riley as Pinkie Brown, a teenage gangster who seduces and marries young waitress Rose (Andrea Riseborough) after she stumbles upon evidence of a revenge killing carried out by him and his gang. Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Pete Postlethwaite co-star.
Rodrigo Cortes directs this claustrophobic suspense thriller. Ryan Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, an American driver contracted to deliver supplies to soldiers in Iraq. After an attack by an Iraqi resistance group, Paul wakes to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with only his mobile phone and a cigarette lighter. With only 90 minutes' worth of oxygen between him and certain death, Paul's worst enemies become intermittent reception and a rapidly draining battery as he engages in a desperate and tightly-confined battle for survival.
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.
Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston and Gemma Arterton star in this British thriller. Hardened criminal Vic (Marsan) and his younger accomplice Danny (Compston) kidnap Alice (Arterton) from a suburban street. Gagging her and tying her to a bed in a purposely soundproofed flat, the two men plan to negotiate a large ransom from Alice's millionaire father before fleeing the country. But while Vic seems confident that their plan will succeed, Danny cannot entirely suppress his misgivings. Meanwhile, Alice refuses to play the role of victim, and it quickly becomes evident that she will not give in without a fight.
Director John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In the burnt-out wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) try to survive by any means possible as they follow a desolate, corpse-strewn road towards the coast, where they hope to find some kind of a future for themselves. Travelling with only the clothes they are wearing, a small cart of scavenged food and a pistol with two bullets as protection, they struggle to survive in the ravaged landscape, encountering a few other desperate survivors along the way. |
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