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Revenge thriller starring Macon Blair and Amy Hargreaves. Dwight (Blair), an outsider who lives out of his bullet-ridden Pontiac, is a man of few words whose parents were murdered when he was just a child. When he learns that the man responsible for their deaths, Will Cleland (David W. Thompson), is to be released from prison, he embarks on a deadly game of retribution which means reuniting with his estranged sister Sam (Hargreaves) and childhood friend Ben (Devin Ratray). Despite Dwight proving to be an amateur, his sense of revenge leads to him turning from victim into killer as a bloody duel between two families ensues.
Abigail Breslin stars in this supernatural thriller from director Vincenzo Natali. 15-year-old Lisa (Breslin) lives with her father Bruce (Peter Outerbridge), mother Carol (Michelle Nolden) and little brother Robbie (Peter DaCunha). However, she is the only one in her family who realises they are repeatedly living out the same day in 1985 - the day before her 16th birthday. As she investigates, she learns that she and her family were killed and and are trapped in the day of their death. She manages to make contact with Olivia (Eleanor Zichy), a girl from a family presently living in the house, who helps Lisa discover that previous occupants of her home have met a similar fate. Can Lisa find a way to put a stop to the murders in time to save Olivia and her family?
Terence Young directs this 1950s espionage thriller starring John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and Christopher Lee. When the Swedish scientist Dr. Nils Ahlen (McCallum) discovers a means of transmuting sound impulses into electrical currents, his invention inevitably becomes the sought after tool of governments, businesses and criminals everywhere. When his wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) and key parts of his invention go missing, Ahlen enlists Inspector Peterson (Warner) of the local police to help him track them down. The quest leads them to snowy northern terrain where a showdown with the abductors beckons...
Low-budget British thriller starring Patrick Baladi. Adam (Baladi) lives at home with his wife and daughter. But when he wakes up in a hostel bed one morning with no recollection of how he got there, he begins to fear he has lost his former life and his family. As he tries to piece everything together, he finds those he seeks help from unwilling to believe his story. Will he be able to regain his old life?
British gangster thriller depicting events surrounding the Essex drugs war in the mid-1990s. The film charts the ever-increasing drug shipments, gangland politics and extreme violence that culminated in the brutal murder of three gangsters - Tony Tucker (Terry Stone), Patrick Tate (Tamer Hassan) and Craig Rolfe (Neil Maskell) - in their Range Rover in Rettendon in 1995.
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...
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.
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Patriot Games (1992)
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
In director Neil Jordan's vampire thriller a mother and daughter struggle to hide their bloody secret from their adopted community. Having survived for over 200 years, itinerant single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are offered shelter at the down-at-heel Byzantium guest house when they arrive at a rundown seaside resort. Whilst her cold-hearted mother plies her trade as a prostitute to keep their heads above water and indulges her bloodletting at any opportunity, Eleanor wrestles with keeping her secret from her latest love, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones). But when the truth finally spreads its way through the local population, the arrival of two strangers belonging to an all-male vampire sect known as 'The Brotherhood' heralds a reckoning neither woman is prepared for.
Ariel Vromen directs this gritty biopic tracing the career of New York contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon). After convincing his Catholic wife Deborah Pellicotti (Winona Ryder) that he works for Disney when he in fact produces porn videos, Polish-American Kuklinski soon finds himself on the payroll of local mobster Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta) as an 'enforcer'. As he warms to his new role amidst the New Jersey underworld, despatching 'contracts' with clinical precision, a striking contrast begins to build between that of the outwardly devoted family man and the ruthlessly efficient, emotionless killer.
Badly wounded and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean by fishermen, and is able to recall neither who he is nor what happened to him. His only clue to his identity is the number of a Swiss bank account which has been etched into a device implanted in his body. Following the lead to Zurich, he discovers money, passports and a gun waiting for him, but also earns the attention of the security services and has to leave in a hurry. He then persuades a young woman named Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris, where he hopes to find out his true identity and discover the reason why the CIA are taking such an interest in him. Directed by Doug Liman ('Swingers', 'Go').
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 B-movie starring Greta Gynt. After telling his next of kin that he has decided to make changes in his will, an elderly millionaire is murdered before he gets the chance to go ahead with his plans. When his niece, crime writer Sophie (Gynt), finds herself one of the suspects she attempts to solve the case on her own.
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.
Crime thriller directed by Michael Brandt. When a US senator is brutally murdered in the middle of the streets, the CIA think it bears the mark of Russian assassin, Cassius. The only thing is, Cassius has been thought dead for years. They draft in retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere), to return to the case he apparently closed with the help of a young FBI agent, Ben Geary (Topher Grace). As they get closer to finding out the identity of the killer, some shocking truths are exposed.
Crime thriller directed by Michael Brandt. When a US senator is brutally murdered in the middle of the streets, the CIA think it bears the mark of Russian assassin, Cassius. The only thing is, Cassius has been thought dead for years. They draft in retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere), to return to the case he apparently closed with the help of a young FBI agent, Ben Geary (Topher Grace). As they get closer to finding out the identity of the killer, some shocking truths are exposed.
Australian thriller based on real historical events. In 1822, eight prisoners - including notorious Irish convict Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding) - escape the brutal penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania). Led by ex-sailor and experienced navigator Robert Greenhill (Arthur Angel), the men battle through the harsh and uncharted wilderness of Van Diemen's Land in search of Macquarie Harbour, where they believe a ship will be waiting to carry them away from the island. As their supplies run out and tensions in the group escalate, the men find themselves contemplating the unthinkable in order to survive.
The final instalment of Paul Greengrass's action trilogy, based on the novels by Robert Ludlum. The tension is ratcheted up even further as Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to uncover the dark mysteries of his past while a government agent is hot on his trail following a shootout in Moscow. Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Paddy Considine co-star.
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.
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.
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.
David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Stephen King novel. Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) is a schoolteacher who, after surviving a terrible road accident, emerges from a five-year coma cursed with psychic powers which enable him to see into the future. When he then meets Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen), Johnny has a vision of the apocalyptic disasters which would befall the world if this man should ever win office, and realises that it is his destiny to prevent such a thing from ever happening.
Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger star in this mystery thriller based on the novel 'Out of My Head' by Didier van Cauwelaert. Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) wakes up from a coma in Berlin, only to discover that another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity in his absence and that no one, not even his wife (January Jones), appears to realise what has happened. As self-doubt and paranoia take hold, Harris is about to discover just how far he is willing to go to prove the truth and reclaim his life. |
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