Archive for the ‘Thriller’ Category

Black Rock

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 148

Language: English

Director: Katie Aselton

Plot: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.

 

Trance

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 99

Language: English

Director: Danny Boyle

Plot: Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang’s leader Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon’s broken subconscious, the lines between truth, suggestion, and deceit begin to blur.

 

The Company You Keep

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 131

Language: English

Director: Robert Redford

Plot: An underground activist goes on the run after a journalist learns who he really is.

 

The Call

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Brad Anderson

Plot: The Call movie trailer – starring Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Ella Rae Peck, Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli, Roma Maffia. Directed by Brad Anderson. Theatrical Release Date: 3/15/2013
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

Profile of a Killer

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 30

Language: English

Director:

Plot: A retired FBI profiler is called in on a last case – only to find himself at the mercy of a teenage killer’s deadly game. He must use all his skills and experience to save lives, including his own.

 

Dead Man Down

Friday, March 8th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Plot: DEAD MAN DOWN is an action thriller that stars Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace as two strangers whose mutual desire for revenge draws them together and triggers an escalating trail of mayhem.

 

The Silence

Friday, March 8th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 76

Language: German

Director: Baran Odar

Plot: The Silence begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat. Now, on the exact same date in the present, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot. As Krischan, the retired investigator of the unresolved case, and his younger colleague David struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes, Sinikka’s distraught parents are trapped in an agonizing period of waiting and uncertainty. Meanwhile, their daughter’s fate rips open old wounds in the heart of Pia’s mother, who is visited by an unexpected guest with an eerie connection to her daughter. The unrelenting summer heat lies over the quaint family homes like a bell jar and behind closed doors, worlds begin to fall apart.

 

Phantom

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 91

Language: English

Director: Todd Robinson

Plot: Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (led by David Duchovny) bent on seizing control of the ship’s nuclear missile. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Harris discovers has been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail. Phantom is a suspense submarine thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices.

 

Side Effects

Friday, February 8th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Plot: SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.

 

Parker

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Taylor Hackford

Plot: Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez team up to get their cut in the crime thriller, PARKER, based on the series of bestselling novels by Donald E. Westlake.

Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don’t steal from people who can’t afford it and don’t hurt people who don’t deserve it. But on his latest heist, his crew double crosses him, steals his stash, and leaves him for dead.

Determined to make sure they regret it, Parker tracks them to Palm Beach, playground of the rich and famous, where the crew is planning their biggest heist ever. Donning the disguise of a rich Texan, Parker takes on an unlikely partner, Leslie (Jennifer Lopez), a savvy insider, who’s short on cash, but big on looks, smarts and ambition. Together, they devise a plan to hijack the score, take everyone down and get away clean.

 

Mama

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Andy Muschietti

Plot: Five years ago, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished from their suburban neighborhood without a trace. Since then, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.

As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years all alone? As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.

 

Killing Them Softly

Friday, November 30th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Andrew Dominik

Plot: Adapted from George V. Higgins novel and set in New Orleans, Killing Them Softly follows professional enforcer, Jackie Cogan (Pitt), who investigates a heist that occurs during a high stakes, mob-protected, poker game.

 

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN-PART 2

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 15

Language: English

Director: Bill Condon

Plot: The astonishing conclusion to the series, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.

 

Argo

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ben Affleck

Plot: Based on true events, “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis – the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA “exfiltration” specialist named Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.

 

Taken 2

Friday, October 5th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language:

Director: Olivier Megaton

Plot: Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a “particular set of skills” who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers in TAKEN. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.

 

House at the End of the Street

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 126

Language: English

Director: Mark Tonderai

Plot: Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Oscar®-nominee Elisabeth Shue; Leaving Las Vegas, Piranha 3D) and her daughter Elissa (Oscar®-nominee Jennifer Lawrence; X-Men: First Class, Winter’s Bone) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared – leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot, My Soul to Take), as the sole survivor. Against Sarah’s wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan – and the closer they get, the deeper they’re all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined.

 

7500

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 119

Language:

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Plot: 7500 concerns a group of passengers who encounter what appears to be a supernatural force while on a transpacific flight.

 

The Tall Man

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Pascal Laugier

Plot: In an isolated, slowly dying mining town, children are vanishing without a trace – abducted, the townsfolk whisper, by a mysterious entity known locally as “The Tall Man.” Town nurse Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) seems skeptical – until her young David disappears in the middle of night. Frantic to rescue the boy, Julia lives every parent’s darkest nightmare in this twisting, shock-around-each-corner thriller from acclaimed director Pascal Laugier (“Martyrs”) called THE TALL MAN.

 

The Good Doctor

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 145

Language:

Director: Lance Daly

Plot: Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) is an ambitious but anxious young doctor, eager to impress his superiors and colleagues: Chief Resident Waylans (Rob Morrow), self-assured fellow intern Dan (Troy Garity) and no-nonsense nurse Theresa (Taraji P. Henson). But things are not going Martin’s way and he can’t seem to shake off his insecurities. When 18-year-old patient Diane (Riley Keough) is admitted for a kidney infection, Martin steps in, getting the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession.

 

The Apparition

Friday, August 24th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Todd Lincoln

Plot: When frightening events start to occur in their home, young couple Kelly (Ashley Greene) and Ben (Sebastian Stan) discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural (Tom Felton), but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying force…