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Good Neighbors

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Jacob Tierney

Plot: Neighbors Spencer (Scott Speedman) and Louise (Emily Hampshire) have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor (Jay Baruchel) arrives in the building, all three quickly hit it off. But as they soon discover, each of them has their own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine. Smart dialogue, strong performances and jarring thrills give this film all the elements of a great mystery.

 

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Spiderhole

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 122

Language: English (International)

Director: Daniel Simpson

Plot: Attractive young artist Molly, along with three art student pals, are trying to find an empty house in London where they can live as squatters, free from rent, and free to party. Upon finding the ideal squat, they break in and go about the merry business of decorating the stark interior to reflect their artistic selves. But soon after moving in, a nightmare unfolds that traps them in a terrifying and unforgiving hell. SOME PLACES ARE HIDDEN FOR A REASON. SOME SECRETS WILL TRAP YOU FOREVER.

 

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The Ledge

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Matthew Chapman

Plot: In this race-against-time thriller, the opposing philosophies of two men embroiled in a complicated love triangle with a beautiful woman (Liv Tyler) escalate into a lethal battle of wills. Ultimately, the believer (Patrick Wilson) forces the non-believer (Charlie Hunnam) onto the ledge of a tall building. He gives him one hour to make a choice between his own life and someone else’s, while a policeman (Terrence Howard) tries to convince him to come down from the ledge.

Without faith in an afterlife, will he be capable of such a sacrifice?
The Ledge is a nuanced character study of love and conviction that will force you to ask how far you’d be willing to go for what you believe in.

 

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I’M NOT JESUS MOMMY

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 95

Language:

Director: Vaughn Juares

Plot: Dr. Kimberly Gabriel, one of the nation’s top fertility specialists, lives in irony as she is unable to have children of her own. Her chance comes when Dr. Roger Gibson recruits her on to his human cloning project.

In an act of desperation she steals an embryo from Gibson’s laboratory and finally fulfills her dream.

The world falls in to chaos and strange happenings surround her son, David, as they struggle for survival.

Kim is faced with the truth on her son’s origin- does David represent mankind’s last hope or something else?

 

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The Perfect Host

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Nick Tomnay

Plot: Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage. As the wine flows and the evening progresses, we become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. With outstanding performances by David Hyde Pierce and Clayne Crawford, cowriter/director Nick Tomnay takes us on a suspense-filled ride where nothing is as it seems. THE PERFECT HOST is a slippery psychological thriller that exposes true human nature and reveals just how far we’re willing to go to satisfy our needs.

 

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Calles Peligrosas

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 115

Language:

Director: SAUL CAJACURI

Plot: A DEADMAN IS KILLING PEOPLE IN THE TOWN

 

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Small Town Murder Songs

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly

Plot: When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake – the victim of a brutal and violent crime – Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town’s first murder investigation in decades.

Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover (Jill Hennessy) and his suspicion of her current boyfriend. As he delves deeper into the crime, his newly-reformed life begins to unravel threatening his relationship with Sam (Martha Plimpton) and intertwining itself within the investigation and possibly the murder itself.

 

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A Serbian Film

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 124

Language:

Director: Srdjan Spasojevic

Plot: An aging porn star agrees to participate in an “art film” in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

 

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The Conspirator

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Robert Redford

Plot: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (ROBIN WRIGHT), 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (TOBY KEBBELL), 26, and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.

Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (JAMES McAVOY), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John (JOHNNY SIMMONS). As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.

 

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Hanna

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Joe Wright

Plot: Award-winning director Joe Wright creates a boldly original suspense thriller with HANNA, starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) in the title role.

Raised by her father (Eric Bana of Star Trek), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

 

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X

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 122

Language:

Director: John Hewitt

Plot: Holly Rowe’s (Viva Bianca) retiring, kissing her callgirl life goodbye. She just has to get through her last night on the job. Shay Ryan’s (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence) a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just has to get through her first night as a hooker. Then fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they’re trapped on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

 

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Wrecked

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 119

Language: English

Director: Michael Greenspan

Plot: Adrien Brody stars as a man who awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. Injured and trapped inside, with no memory of how he got there or who he is, he must rely on his most primal instincts to survive. But as he attempts to free himself from the carnage and escape an impossible situation, a darker side is revealed. Even if he manages to survive, the man may have to face the horrible consequences of an earlier, forgotten life.

 

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Choose

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 128

Language: English

Director: Marcus Graves

Plot: All is not well in sleepy suburbia….Woken in the middle of the night, teenager Sara finds her parents tied to their bed by a terrifying intruder. An intricate hour-glass filled with blood is placed before her and she is told that she has 60 seconds to choose which of her parents should die. If she doesn’t make the choice then both of them will perish at the hands of the deranged killer. Who is the scarred man and why has he chosen Sara and her famliy as his victims? Marcus Graves’ new slasher flick will have you squirming in your seat as the gruesome horror unfolds.

 

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I Saw the Devil

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 135

Language: Korean

Director: Kim Jee-Woon

Plot: Lee Byung-hyun (The Good, the Bad and the Weird) stars as Dae-hoon, a special agent whose pregnant wife becomes the latest victim of a disturbed and brutal serial killer, captivatingly played by Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik. Vowing revenge, Dae-hoon blurs the lines between hunter and hunted and good and evil, eventually becoming a monster himself in his twisted pursuit of revenge. From Korean genre master Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad and The Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters) I SAW THE DEVIL is shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished, transcending the police procedural and pushing the boundaries of extreme Asian cinema in surprising and thrilling new ways.

 

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Brotherhood

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 104

Language: English

Director: Will Canon

Plot: Adam Buckley finds himself in the middle of a convenience store robbery during his last night as a pledge for a college fraternity. When the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong and everything starts falling apart, Adam is forced to choose between his new brothers or his ethics.

 

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Unknown

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Plot: Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife (January Jones) suddenly doesn’t recognize him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run.

Aided by an unlikely ally (Diane Kruger), Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he’s willing to go to uncover the truth.

 

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I Am Number Four

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: D. J. Caruso

Plot: John (Alex Pettyfer) is an extraordinary teen, masking his true identity and passing as a typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to destroy him. Three like him have already been killed, he is Number Four.

 

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RAGE (RABIA)

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 102

Language: Spanish

Director: Sebastian Cordero

Plot: Produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone), RAGE tells the suspenseful story of a pair of Latin American immigrants who fall in love. José María, a hot-headed builder, and Rosa, a housekeeper, embark in a passionate relationship. When a violent confrontation with José María’s foreman results in the other man’s death, José María flees to the mansion where Rosa works, telling no one. Hidden even from her, he watches Rosa be mistreated by her boss as he yearns for the day they can be together.

 

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The Rite

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Mikael Hafstrom

Plot: Inspired by true events, “The Rite” follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While in Rome, he meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith.

 

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Season of The Witch

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director: Dominic Sena

Plot: Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure, Ghost Rider) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hellboy II) star in this supernatural action adventure about a heroic Crusader and his fellow soldier who must transport a woman accused of being a witch to a remote monastery. The arduous journey across perilous terrain tests their strength and courage as they discover the girl’s secret and find themselves battling a terrifyingly powerful force that will determine the fate of the world.

 

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