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Tense financial drama with a twist starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. Peter Miller (Gere) is desperately trying to sell the hedge fund he manages before anyone notices the inconsistencies in the company's books, but with his ever tenacious daughter Brooke (Brit Marling) beginning to ask questions he will do well to maintain a brave face. Not only that, when an unexpected turn of events leads to him being the sole interest of local police detective Michael Bryer (Tim Roth) and his wife Ellen (Sarandon) growing suspicious, Peter struggles to keep his cool under pressure.
A nation's hopes rest in the hands of a former White House guard after the president is held hostage by terrorists in this action thriller from director Antoine Fuqua. Trying to adapt to civilian life after a tragedy ended his Secret Service career, former special forces veteran Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is thrust back onto the front line when a group of terrorists led by Kang (Rick Yune) attack the White House and seize the president (Aaron Eckhart). Now, finding himself the last Secret Service man left alive inside the building, Banning, overseen by acting President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), must bring all his special forces experience to bear as he embarks on a one-man mission to take out the terrorists and save the pres
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.
Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey star in this steamy crime thriller set in rural Florida at the end of the 1960s. Charlotte Bless (Kidman), a garishly seductive femme fatale, enlists the help of returning Miami Times investigative reporter Ward Jansen (McConaughey) and his black colleague Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) as she tries to overturn the conviction of death row inmate Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), who is accused of murdering a local racist sheriff. But as a mutual resentment simmers between Yardley and Ward's adolescent younger brother, Jack (Efron), the investigation threatens to get derailed as the main protagonists find themselves swept up in a heady cocktail of heat, lust and violence.
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.
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.
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.
Taylor Lautner stars in this action thriller about a young man who sets out to uncover his true identity. Nathan (Lautner) is an ordinary teenager whose life is blown apart when a classmate spots his baby picture on a missing person's website. Nathan begins to suspect that his 'parents' are in fact secret agents, and must fight tooth and nail to get to the bottom of the sinister plot behind his so-called reality.
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!
Cobra (1986)
Assassins (1995)
Tango and Cash (1989)
The Specialist (1994)
Demolition Man (1993)
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.
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing the button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world, someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
Writer/director Guy Ritchie continues in mockney gangster vein with this follow-up to his 1998 hit 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. In London, en route to deliver a stolen diamond to his employer Avi (Dennis Farina), thief Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) is ambushed by Russian mobster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia). At the same time, boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) enter Irish gypsy fighter Mickey (Brad Pitt) in a fight run by local kingpin Brick Top (Alan Ford). Instead of throwing the fight as arranged, Mickey earns Brick Top's enmity by beating his opponent fair and square. Meanwhile, Avi travels to London and hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to track down Franky and the diamond - which Brick Top has now found out about and decided to appropriate from Boris!
Crime drama/thriller based of the life and death of notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy. Corin Nemec stars as Bundy, whose four-year killing spree terrorised college campuses across America, giving rise to a cross-country manhunt by police. Later escaping not once but twice from police custody in order to continue his murderous habits, Bundy uses a variety of different identities and disguises to elude capture. He manages to find his way to Florida to commit one final murder before finally being caught and tried in a court of law, where he relies upon his law school education to defend himself in his own murder trial.
Thriller loosely based on the autobiography by Martin McGartland, former undercover informant to the British police on the activities of the IRA. Set in Belfast in the late 1980s, the film shows how McGartland led a double life for four years while still in his early twenties, revealing nothing of his position even to close friends and family, until his cover was blown in 1991 and he was kidnapped and tortured by the IRA. Ben Kingsley co-stars as Fergus, McGartland's British 'handler'.
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with. But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle's game of one-upmanship spirals out of control in an escalating chess match that can only lead to a deadly outcome.
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. This bold, original film follows our intrepid group as they brave the cold Manhattan night trying to rescue a stranded friend as well as evade the vicious threat to their city.
Martin Durnley, who has a childish alter ego "Georgie", lives with his mother Enid and his nouveau riche stepfather whom he resents intensely. Enid dotes on Martin, largely because her first son Pete is a "mongol", and she is afraid that Martin may inherit a similiar affliction. One day whilst shopping Martin encounters Susan Harper, an attractive student currently working as a librarian. When he is caught shoplifting a toy duck baby-faced Martin adopts the guise of retarded Georgie, consequently Susan takes pity on him and offers to pay for the item rather than create a fuss. This moment of kindness captures Martin's interest, sowing the seeds of a deadly obsession.
Thriller in which a weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb and they are stuck in the water many miles from shore, with baby Sara left alone on board. Sara's mother Amy must contend with her aqua-phobia as well as the group's increasing desperation, as the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon the exhaustion of keeping afloat and the struggle to get back on board begin to take a terrible toll. The happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.
Professional thief Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is considering giving up his life of crime when his old fence Max Baron (Marlon Brando) asks him to help steal a priceless sceptre from the city customs house. Nick agrees, treating it as the 'one last job' which will pay for his retirement, but immediately has misgivings when he realises that he will have to work alongside Jackie Teller (Edward Norton), a cocksure young man who has inside access to the customs house. Together the pair design the perfect heist, making sure they have considered every possible angle; but come the night of the robbery, trouble arrives from the most unexpected direction.
In the midst of a global crisis, the USS Alabama receives unconfirmed orders to launch its nuclear missiles - signaling the start of World War III. The tension escalates as the sub's respected commander and his brilliant executive officer clash over the validity of their orders...battling each other for control of the sub. As this epic struggle rages under the sea, you take command of edge-of-your-seat excitement
Mark Wahlberg stars in this revenge thriller. When their mother is murdered during a hold-up in a local grocery store, her four adopted sons decide to take the law into their own hands and find the man responsible for the crime. As they investigate, they discover that Jeremiah's (Andre Benjamin) dealings with a local criminal (Chiwetel Ejiofor) may have something to do with the case, and that the two policemen investigating the murder may not be quite what they seem. |
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