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Thriller movies
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Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman) is a brilliant private detective who has an extraordinary genius for cracking the most intricate cases in fabulously short periods of time. One fine day he is hired by timber tycoon Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) to find out the identity of a blackmailer who has been tormenting him for years. With little information of the case, Daryl, along with his front man partner Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller), embarks on an investigation to trap the perpetrator. The finger of suspicion points at Gloria Sllivan (Kim Dickens), a lovely paramedic he meets at a health club. The only problem with the case is the detective becomes romantically involved with the likely suspect. |
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The suspense thriller focuses on Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a top Marine Corps scout sniper who has retired from the service after a routine mission ended in failure. Three years later, he is coerced back into service in order to thwart an assassination attempt against the President of the United States. While carrying out his mission, Swagger is shot twice by a police officer, but manages to escape and take refuge with Sarah Fenn (Kate Mara), the widow of his former partner. Realizing that he has been framed and is now the subject of a national manhunt, Swagger sets out both to find the real shooter and take revenge on corrupt CIA agents who have twice betrayed him. |
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Four adopted brothers — Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) — reunite at the funeral of their foster mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), who was murdered during a grocery store robbery. They decide to take the matter of her death into their own hands in order to track down the killer and exact revenge on him. Ignoring the police orders, they start combing the city of Detroit. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to local crime boss Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor)... |
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It is a couple of years in the future... The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything... Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader "The Knight Rider". Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as "Mad Max". |
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Bruce Willis returns as John McClane in this action-packed sequel to Die Hard (1988). At Dulles International Airport, McClane is waiting for his wife Holly to land. A while after he arrives at the airport, he feels that something's wrong. He follows two men into the luggage room. They both try to kill him, but he kills one and the other gets away. He gets the dead guy's fingerprints and faxes them to his friend Al Powell over in L.A. The man's name was Oswald Cochrane, and he had been officially dead for two years. John then realizes that someone is about to screw around with the airport, and he's correct. Colonel Stuart, a man who got "canned by congress", as McClane says it, and his team of ex-commandos have taken control of the airport, shutting down the Instrument Landing System and the runways. He then threatens to cause plane crashes unless the plane carrying Ramon Esperanza from Valverde (the fictitious country used in Commando (1985)) lands at a runway of his designation. The Chief Engineer and the airport's S.W.A.T. team unsuccessfully try to restore communications with the planes above. Because of this, Stuart crashes a plane. McClane must now try to defeat the terrorists and save his wife before her plane, and all the other planes, run out of fuel. |
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father. |
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The crime suspense movie centers on a promising young assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who finds himself drawn into an intricate cat-and-mouse game of Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) who has shot his adulterous wife (Embeth Davidtz) but manages to avoid being imprisoned due to legal loopholes. |
| 48 Hrs.
[1982,
USA]
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| The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn't have liked each other less. They couldn't have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for... 48 HRS |
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Convicted robber Albert Ganz escapes from a road gang with the help of his partner Billy Bear, and they immediately kill their partner Henry Wong, then they check into the Walden Hotel in San Francisco under false names. Alcoholic San Francisco cop Jack Cates and two of his fellow cops VanZant and Algren go to the Walden Hotel to check on a guy named G. P. Polson, who turns out to be Ganz. Ganz and Billy kill Algren and VanZant, then leave. Jack wants revenge, so he convinces his boss, Haden, to let him work alone on this case. Jack goes to a prison and visits Ganz and Billy's former partner Reggie Hammond, and Jack decides to spring Reggie for 48 hours so Reggie can help him find Ganz and Billy, but it's not going to be easy, especially since Jack and Reggie are not getting along with each other. The tension between them gets so high that they end up beating each other up in a garbage filled alley on their first night together, then it turns out that Reggie has $500,000 stashed away in the trunk of his car, and his car has been in a parking garage ever since he was convicted. Ganz and Billy are after the money, so they have kidnapped Rosalie, the girlfriend of their former partner Luther, in order to force Luther to get the car with the money in it. With this in mind, Jack and Reggie try to find Ganz and Billy before Jack has to return Reggie to the prison. |
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Based on a true story, the horror drama revolves around Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), a 19-year-old ordinary college freshman who begins to feel as though someone else has inhabited her body. The student becomes tormented by terrifying visions and ghostly voices. She can't separate the reality from the nightmare. Doctors give her a diagnosis of a strange mental disease but are unable to cure her. So Emily desperately seeks help from her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). It's obvious to him that the hapless girl is possessed by demons. He believes that the only hope to save Emily's soul is to perform the forbidden and extremely dangerous ritual of exorcism on her... |
| It
[1990,
USA, Canada]
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| The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of. |
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, "It" wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like "It" doesn't happen. Ironically they know about "It", but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat "It" as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that "It" has come back, he reunites what's left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and "It" is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat "It" and cure Derry of "The Derry Disease". |
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It was the night before Christmas when an outwardly problem-free family was making their annual Christmas journey to the in-laws’ house. There was a long road to travel, so the patriarch of the family, Frank Harrington (Ray Wise), decided to take a shortcut lest he be in the arms of Morpheus while driving. However, Frank began to doze... If he had only known that danger was in store for them! A spectral woman in white wandering through the forest and a horrifying black driverless hearse will make anyone tremble with fear... |
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Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) tracked down serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) and sentenced him to die in the gas chamber. Before the execution Reese grasped Hobbes' hand and sang the Rolling Stones' "Time Is on My Side." In a word, he behaved himself arrogantly as though he was going for an enjoyable outing. But soon afterwards John Hobbes was greatly puzzled by a new series of demonic crimes committed in Reese’s style as if he was alive. Thanks to a chance meeting with theology professor, Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz), Hobbes found a clue to the murder mysteries. The slayings appeared to have been arranged by Azazel, a fallen angel, who had the ability to inhabit human bodies, making them to kill.
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins. |
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In the late 40's, the swindler Raymond Martinez Fernandez seduces lonely women to steal their possessions. When he meets the deranged Martha Beck, they fall in love for each other. With the jealous Martha posing as if she were his sister, the crook Ray seduces and kills other women. Two New York Detectives - Elmer C. Robinson and Charles Hildebrandt - chase the sociopaths, but without having the evidence of a body. In the end of 40's, the couple is finally arrested and sentenced to death, being electrocuted in March, 1951 in Sing Sing. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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A group of five graduate student roommates in Iowa fall into a descent that leads to murder after an accidental meeting leads them to search out extremists in the local community. |
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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half. |
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This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series. After five years of chasing paranormal activity, the X-Files are closed by the government. Special FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) now do the "down to earth" work. When a bomb threatens the Dallas Federal Building, Mulder and Scully locate the device but are unable to prevent the explosion. After the bomb destroys the building, Mulder soon learns that the destruction of the building was the work of the government... Deadly secret buried in a cave in Texas is being unleashed, mankind is under the deadly virus threat. Meanwhile, Mulder gets more and more information confirming his suspicions about the veiled alien activity on Earth and the secret, international cabal of men protecting those mysteries.
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In this urban action thriller New York police dept. detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis), is a hard-drinking cop, assigned to deliver a small-time convict to the court sixteen blocks far from the jail in less than 2 hours. The task seems to be simple, but there are some powerful people who don't want this prisoner to be delivered to the court house. Bruce Willis's Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... |
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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