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Thriller movies
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A group of people in a post-apocalyptic world fight to survive against a band of vicious cannibals. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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Giulio is a big fan of Hitchcock also being a film student. He lives opposite a sexy young woman and her mother, whom he constantly witnesses arguing with one another. He makes an acquaintance with the girl, but soon her mother is murdered. He becomes obsessed with figuring out who did it - especially since he heard his neighbor's discussion in the local video shop. Does Hitchcock's influence extend to this murder? Giulio decides to start his own investigation. |
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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye. |
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Adapted from William Golding's novel, the movie follows a group of American military cadets, aged eight to fourteen, who become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash in the ocean. The boys are quickly divided into two enemy camps. While the self-restrained, decorous, reasonable Ralph (Balthazar Getty) leads one group, wanting to act in a civilized way and trying to find a way for survival, the violence-prone, power-obsessed Jack (Chris Furrh) forms a band of hunters who have fun and degenerate into savages. |
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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This tough action is set among the beautiful and dangerous Rocky mountains. One scumbag played by John Lithgow had stolen millions of dollars, but during the action on the board of the plane the suitcase full of money falls down onto the rocky, forest-covered slopes. There, in the land of ice and snow, Gabe Walker (Stallone), an alpinist, searches for the 5 men who had lost after the huge avalanche. When the paths of Stallone's tough guy and the offenders cross, the action begins! Bandits are armed to the teeth, but Walker has an ice-axe, bravery and good alpine skills. |
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Alex (Geoff Bell, The Business) masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky (Vas Blackwood, Lock Stock) Matty (Leo Gregory, Stoned) Terry (Johnny Harris, London to Brighton) Chubby (Paul Nicholls, The Trench) Norman (Justin Salinger, Hitler) and Jay (Robert Boulter, The Long Firm) make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. They have twenty hostages inside and the Police have laid siege to The Bank. There are two and a half hours before their plane leaves, and seventy million pounds in hard cash to steal. A daunting task, even for the most seasoned Blagger! |
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The story is set in 1933, ten years after Richard O'Connell and Evelyn's fearless fight against High Priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Now the courageous adventurer Rick (Brendan Fraser) and the beautiful Egyptologist Evie (Rachel Weisz) are very happily married and have an 8-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath). However, they are fated not to enjoy a restful life. The scientists find the mummified corpse of Imhotep and ship it to the British Museum. The cursed villain arises from the dead again! In the meantime, Mathayus the Scorpion King (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), a legendary warrior who has been slept in the desert of Ahm Shere for many centuries, resurrects as well. When these two powerful forces clash, the destiny of the human race is in the balance. The O'Connells have only 7 days to save the world and rescue their son. |
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This bone-chilling horror movie tells the story of Max Truemont (Josh Holloway), an ex-convict who is determined to give up a life of crime despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion. But he soon discovers that it's tough to get a job if you have a criminal record. In desperate need of money, Max agrees to take one last job to kidnap David Sandborn (Blake Woodruff), the eight-year-old son of the wealthiest woman in the state, for ransom. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (Sarah Wayne Callies) and two shady associates, Max abducts and brings the boy to a secluded hideout in the woods to await further instruction. Much to their dismay, the kidnappers come to realize that their victim is not quite as innocent as he seems... |
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When Bond is sent to investigate a security leak at the high-tech Zorin Industries, he discovers a hotbed of murder and deception. The company's mysterious owner, Max Zorin has devised a plan to corner the world microchip market, even if he has to kill millions to do it! But before Bond can stop Zorin, he must confront the madman's beautiful and deadly companion May Day. With help from the gorgeous Stacey, Bond will launch an all-out assault on Zorin's deadly scheme, climaxing in a spine-tingling duel on the upper spans of the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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When returning to Earth, a NASA space shuttle explodes under mysterious circumstances and the fragments bring alien spores that begin spreading by leaps and bounds and infecting human beings, turning them into emotionless pod people. Along with her love interest, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the mind-altering extraterrestrial virus is attempting to take over mankind and that her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) is immune to the disease because of chicken pox he had as a baby and may hold the key to creating an effective vaccine. However, Ollie is abducted by his father, Carol's infected ex-husband Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). Thus, Carol and Ben begin prowling zombie-infested streets in search of her son who is the last hope for saving the human race... |
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After robbing three prosperous Las Vegas casinos of one hundred sixty million dollars, Daniel Ocean (George Clooney) and his gang decided to lay low and enjoy the money. But Terry Benedict (Garcia), the owner of the three casinos, is not the person to forgive and forget. The revenge-seeking entrepreneur has finally tracked them down and gives the gang two weeks to return his money, with interest over three years, or else they will be killed. Out of job and short of ninety-seven million dollars, Ocean, Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) and other crew members come together again to pull off three audacious large-scale heists in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam. |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
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| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City. |
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Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter. |
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Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings' find out more than Hickley wants them to know. |
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A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. |
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An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows. |
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