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Thrillers (226)

Thriller | 2009

After assuming the identity of a dead person, a callow young man is quickly sucked into a dark and violent underworld where powerful men gamble on human lives in very high-stakes games of Russian roulette. Writer-director Gela Babluani remakes his inventive French thriller, 13 Tzameti - winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 - with Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Emmanuelle Chriqui and 50 Cent.

Cast: Sam Riley, Jason Statham

Director: Gela Babluani

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

50 Dead Men Walking

Thriller | 2008

Belfast hood Martin (Jim Sturgess) is recruited by a British agent (Ben Kingsley) to infiltrate the IRA during the height of the Northern Irish conflict and quickly becomes embroiled in a dangerous game that could cost him his life if his secret is found out. As other informers are brutally murdered, Martin starts to look for a way out, but his handler urges him to stay undercover in this taut political thriller based on a true story.

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess

Director: Kari Skogland

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

52 Pick-Up

Thriller | 1986

A secret fling with between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.

Cast: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity

Director: John Frankenheimer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

88 Minutes

Thriller | 2007

Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) - a college professor and occasional forensic psychologist for the FBI - finds himself in a race against time when he receives a mysterious phone call telling him he has exactly 88 minutes left to live. Can he track down his would-be killer before the clock runs out? Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski, Deborah Unger and William Forsythe co-star in this real-time thriller from director Jon Avnet.

Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt

Director: Jon Avnet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Abandoned

Thriller | 2010

In this taut indie thriller, bank executive Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) finds her sanity in question when her boyfriend, Kevin Peterson (Dean Cain), mysteriously vanishes from a hospital where he was taken for outpatient surgery. Deemed unstable by a staff shrink after an administrator (Mimi Rogers) finds no record of Kevin, Mary must not only prove her sanity but locate him before his captor - who's demanding a $10 million ransom - kills him.

Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain

Director: Michael Feifer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Absolute Power

Thriller | 1997

Cat burglar Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) finds himself in the president's doghouse when he spies the chief executive (Gene Hackman) trysting with a trophy wife. When their rough romancing turns lethal, efforts to cover up the scandalous situation spiral violently out of control. Now, Luther must survive a desperate pursuit from the back streets of the nation's capital to the halls of power. Eastwood also directed this riveting crime thriller.

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Adventures Of Tintin, The

Thriller | 2011

Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.

Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig

Director: Steven Spielberg

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Along Came A Spider

Thriller | 2001

When a teacher kidnaps a girl from a prestigious school, homicide detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) takes the case, teaming up with young security agent Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), in hopes of finding the girl and stopping the brutal psychopath. Every second counts as Alex and Jezzie attempt to track down the kidnapper before the spider claims another victim for its web. But are they too late to stop the inevitable?

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter

Director: Lee Tamahori

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

American Psycho

Thriller | 2000

With a chiseled chin and an iron physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie - and the ideal serial killer. That's the joke behind American Psycho, which follows a killer at large during the 1980s junk-bond boom. Bateman (Christian Bale) takes pathological pride in everything from his business card to his Huey Lewis CD collection, all the while plotting his next victim's vivisection.

Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe

Director: Mary Harron

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

American, The

Thriller | 2010

On the heels of a rough assignment, assassin Jack (George Clooney) declares that his next job will be his last. Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him. Although duty will surely call, Jack becomes friends with Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) and falls for villager Clara (Violante Placido) in this suspense thriller directed by Anton Corbijn.

Cast: George Clooney, Violante Placido

Director: Anton Corbijn

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Anatomy Of A Murder

Thriller | 1959

Nominated for seven Oscars, this legal thriller profiles the attempts of country lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) to exonerate Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), who's charged with a local barkeep's murder but claims the victim raped his wife (Lee Remick). Employing a temporary insanity defense, Biegler tries to outmaneuver slick celebrity prosecutor Claude Dancer (George C. Scott) but discovers there's more to the case than meets the eye.

Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick

Director: Otto Preminger

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Anderson Tapes, The

Thriller | 1971

Sean Connery stars as Duke Anderson, a con fresh from prison who rounds up a top-level crew to relieve a posh apartment building of its wealth. What Anderson doesn't know, however, is that the building has a new video surveillance system that's catching his every move on tape. Sidney Lumet directs this tight thriller that co-stars Dyan Cannon, Christopher Walken and Alan King,

Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Apocalypse Watch, The

Thriller | 1997

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Ludlum, this captivating thriller follows CIA analyst Drew (Patrick Bergin), who has taken over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty. With the help of the brother's former partner and girlfriend, Karin (Virginia Madsen), Drew conducts an investigation that leads him to discover a sinister neo-Fascist movement that has been plotting to poison the world's reservoirs.

Cast: Patrick Bergin, Virginia Madsen

Director: Kevin Connor

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Argo

Thriller | 2012

A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman

Director: Ben Affleck

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Assignment, The

Thriller | 1997

A dead ringer for international terrorist Carlos Sanchez (Aidan Quinn), U.S. Naval officer Annibal Ramirez (also Aidan Quinn) is mistakenly arrested in Israel in this fact-based thriller. Israeli operative Amos (Ben Kingsley) and CIA agent Henry Fields (Donald Sutherland) recruit Ramirez to impersonate Sanchez in a complex plot designed to ultimately bring about the terrorist's demise.

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn

Director: Christian Duguay

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bank Job, The

Thriller | 2008

Based on actual events in 1971, this thriller tells the story of a car dealer (Jason Statham) who becomes involved in a London bank heist, only to find that the contents of the bank vault will draw him deeply and irrevocably into the city's criminal underbelly. Murder and scandal abound in this tale of corruption populated with a surprising mix of offenders, from low-level thugs to government officials - all the way up to the royal family.

Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows

Director: Roger Donaldson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Basic Instinct

Thriller | 1992

Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone star in this Oscar-nominated erotic thriller about a troubled cop and a seductive novelist entwined in an alluring game of whodunit. Facing internal inquiry, Detective Tom Curran (Douglas) doggedly pursues a case involving Catherine Tramell (Stone), a writer and temptress who's suspected in a murder reminiscent of a crime detailed in her book. But as the body count rises, so does Curran's obsession with Tramell.

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Behind Enemy Lines

Thriller | 2001

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer (Gene Hackman) decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

Cast: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman

Director: John Moore

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Berlin Express

Thriller | 1948

A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.

Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Best Laid Plans

Thriller | 1999

Welcome to Tropico, a gray little town smack dab in the middle of nowhere where nothing ever happens until a botched robbery leaves Nick (Alessandro Nivola) 48 hours to pay up or die. Desperate, Nick and his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) undertake drastic measures to get their hands on some fast cash.

Cast: Josh Brolin, Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon

Director: Mike Barker

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Big Bang, The

Thriller | 2011

This noir thriller from director Tony Krantz stars Antonio Banderas as Los Angeles detective Ned Cruz, who signs on to a missing persons case to find a wayward stripper but winds up knee-deep in bodies in the New Mexico desert. The plot thickens when he butts heads with three other investigators, a Russian boxer and a wealthy megalomaniac who's trying to re-create the Big Bang. Sam Elliott and Snoop Dogg co-star.

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann

Director: Tony Krantz

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Blow Out

Thriller | 1981

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

Cast: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow

Director: Brian De Palma

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bonded By Blood

Thriller | 2010

Adapting Bernard O'Mahoney's true-life novel, Sacha Bennett directs and co-writes this clever thriller about feared career criminals Tony Tucker (Terry Stone), Pat Tate (Tamer Hassan) and Craig Rolfe (Neil Maskell), who ruled the drug trafficking world until their deaths in England in 1995. Various business and personal tensions dominate their lives before the trio makes headlines as being the victims of the "The Triple Rettendon Murders."

Cast: Dave Legeno, Vincent Regan

Director: Sacha Bennett

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bourne Identity, The

Thriller | 2002

A man (Matt Damon) washes up on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, suffering from gunshot wounds and amnesia. He soon realizes he's being hunted down by assassins and that he's very good at killing them before they get him... but the question of his identity perplexes him as he fights to stay alive. Franka Potente co-stars in this action thriller based on Robert Ludlum's novel.

Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente

Director: Doug Liman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bourne Supremacy, The

Thriller | 2004

Flushed from his momentary refuge by an assassin, amnesiac - and ex-CIA killer - Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) finds himself thrust into secret alliances, setups and shootouts in this riveting sequel, the second leg of scribe Robert Ludlum's espionage trilogy. Still haunted by a murky past, Bourne attempts to piece together the shards of his life while protecting his girlfriend (Franka Potente) and thwarting an international incident.

Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente

Director: Paul Greengrass

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bourne Ultimatum, The

Thriller | 2007

Matt Damon returns as trained assassin Jason Bourne in this third film based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novels. This time around, Bourne travels the globe on a quest to reconstruct his past - and thus clear the way for his future. As Bourne moves from Moscow to Paris and on to Madrid, London, New York and Morocco, he's joined by returning cast members Julia Stiles and Joan Allen as well as new co-stars David Strathairn and Paddy Considine.

Cast: Matt Damon, Paddy Considine

Director: Paul Greengrass

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Breach

Thriller | 2007

Soon after landing a plum job working for FBI operative Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper), young agency employee Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) learns he's been brought in to spy on his boss, who's suspected of selling secrets to the Soviets. But can O'Neill handle such an important assignment with so little field experience, or will Hanssen get to him first? Laura Linney and Dennis Haysbert co-star in this high-stakes thriller based on a true story.

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Chris Cooper

Director: Billy Ray

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Broken City

Thriller | 2013

In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Director: Allen Hughes

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Bullitt

Thriller | 1968

Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen, who serves as the prototype for every movie cop who refuses to play by the book) must babysit a gangster for 48 hours. But when hit men snuff the witness, Bullitt won't be stopped in his quest for vengeance. This classic 1960s thriller earned immortality in part for a memorable 100-mph car-chase sequence that saw two automobiles bottom out their shock absorbers roaring through San Francisco's hills.

Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn

Director: Peter Yates

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Call Northside 777

Thriller | 1948

When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb), he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall, and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical, he eventually believes that Wiecek was, in fact, a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another, the avid newsman never gives up the search for justice for the innocent Wiecek.

Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker

Director: Henry Hathaway

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Carlos

Thriller | 2010

Edgar Ramirez stars as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - aka Carlos the Jackal - an elusive Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassination plots, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East. This biopic follows Sanchez from 1973 to 1994 as he and his cohorts wreak havoc on the Left Bank in Paris, storm OPEC headquarters in Vienna and carry out other devastating acts of politically motivated violence. This is the 165-minute theatrical cut.

Cast: Edgar Ramirez , Alexander Scheer

Director: Olivier Assayas

Genre: Thriller

Language: French (English subtitles)

Cat Chaser

Thriller | 1989

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

Cast: Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Cellular

Thriller | 2004

Ryan (Chris Evans) is driving in his car when his cell phone rings. But when he answers, there's a stranger (Kim Basinger) on the other end of the line who's desperate to get someone to help her, her husband and her son escape from the madman (Jason Statham) who's abducted them. If Ryan fails to act quickly, innocent people will be killed. But his cell phone battery is low - and he has no idea where the helpless family is.

Cast: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans

Director: David R Ellis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Changing Lanes

Thriller | 2002

The story of what happens one day in New York when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton

Director: Roger Michell

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Charley Varrick

Thriller | 1973

Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very large amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the mob off their trail.

Cast: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr

Director: Don Siegel

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Cold Creek Manor

Thriller | 2003

Location, location, location. A loving couple (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone), along with their son and daughter, relocate from the city to the country, where they put the down payment on their dream home - a sprawling farmhouse. But home sweet home quickly becomes a nightmare when the house's previous owner (Stephen Dorff) returns from prison... and wants his house back... badly.

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone

Director: Mike Figgis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Common Man, A

Thriller | 2013

A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross, Patrick Rutnam

Director: Chandran Rutnam

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Company Business

Thriller | 1991

An ex-CIA agent (Gene Hackman) is called out of retirement to escort a Soviet spy (Mikhail Baryshnikov) to Berlin for a prisoner trade with the Russians. On the way, the former adversaries realize they've been double-crossed by their own governments and that the CIA and KGB have secretly joined forces and plan to sacrifice them to cover up both agencies' transgressions. The two must team up if they hope to win this intricate and deadly game.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov

Director: Nicholas Meyer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Company You Keep, The

Thriller | 2012

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Stanley Tucci

Director: Robert Redford

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Confidential Agent

Thriller | 1945

During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter.

Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Victor Francen

Director: Herman Shumlin

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Conspirator

Thriller | 1949

Hollywood's two most famous Taylors take center stage in this atmospheric spy thriller spawned by the early days of the Cold War and filmed on location in London and the English countryside. Making a move into more adult roles, 17-year-old Elizabeth Taylor plays the giddy young wife of a British Army officer (Robert Taylor). Their whirlwind romance and storybook marriage take a sudden, alarming turn when she discovers her handsome husband is a Communist agent under orders to perform acts of espionage.

Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng

Director: Victor Saville

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Constant Gardener, The

Thriller | 2005

Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a member of the British High Commission based in Africa, launches a quest for the truth and begins his own international investigation when his wife (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning turn) is murdered. Not even the rumors of his wife's infidelity will stop him from uncovering what really happened to her - a conspiracy that's much more dangerous than he ever imagined.

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Contagion

Thriller | 2011

A lethal airborne virus that kills within days spreads quickly. As the epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society falling apart at the seams.

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Contraband

Thriller | 2012

To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale

Director: Baltasar Kormakur

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Conversation, The

Thriller | 1974

Francis Ford Coppola follows The Godfather with this intimate film about an audio surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) who faces a moral quandary when he suspects that a couple whose conversation he's been hired to surreptitiously record will be murdered. The San Francisco-set film features a tremendous supporting cast, including John Cazale and Teri Garr, and was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Da Vinci Code, The

Thriller | 2006

When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and cryptographer Sophie Neve (Audrey Tautou) must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany and Alfred Molina co-star in this this gripping thriller from director Ron Howard, based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Dark Passage

Thriller | 1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett

Director: Delmer Daves

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Dark Truth, A

Thriller | 2012

A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.

Cast: Andy Garcia, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger

Director: Damian Lee

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Day Of The Jackal, The

Thriller | 1973

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Deadly Impact

Thriller | 2007

In this high-octane thriller, police officer Tom Armstrong (Sean Patrick Flanery) returns home when the FBI summons his help to track down the shrewd assassin who murdered his wife and sent him into an emotional freefall. Now, the vengeful cop must revisit his painful past to outsmart the cold, conniving killer who derailed his future. Joe Pantoliano stars in this action-packed drama from horror director Robert Kurtzman.

Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Joe Pantoliano

Director: Robert Kurtzman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Deathtrap

Thriller | 1982

Sidney Lumet directs this twisting adaptation of Ira Levin's play about older, washed-up playwright Sidney (Michael Caine), who arranges to meet with younger writer Clifford (Christopher Reeve) at Sidney's remote cabin to discuss Clifford's first attempt at authoring a play. Sidney clearly covets the play, which casts doubt as to whether Clifford will leave the cabin alive. Dyan Cannon plays Sidney's ailing wife.

Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Debt, The

Thriller | 2011

Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren) is a former Mossad intelligence agent forced to relive her 1965 pursuit of a notorious Nazi war criminal when the bold and dangerous fugitive is thought to have reemerged 30 years later in the Ukraine. Director John Madden's redo of Assaf Bernstein's 2007 Israeli suspense piece also features Jessica Chastain as the young Rachel Singer, along with Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds.

Cast: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington

Director: John Madden

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Dial M For Murder

Thriller | 1954

Director Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of double-cross and intrigue stars Ray Milland as former tennis champ Tony Wendice, who concocts a plan to kill his rich but unfaithful wife (Grace Kelly), who's embroiled in a liaison with a writer (Robert Cummings). When Tony's plans go awry, he improvises a second act of deceit, but the entire bloody affair turns out to be far messier than he expected. John Williams plays a sly Scotland Yard inspector.

Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Domino Principle, The

Thriller | 1977

Vietnam veteran and convicted murderer Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman) is visited by a stranger who makes him an intriguing offer. If Tucker, a skilled rifleman, carries out the assassination of a Central American president, he'll be released from prison. Freedom is a sweet temptation, but who are his employers, and how do they know so much about him? Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark and Mickey Rooney co-star in Stanley Kramer's taut thriller.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen

Director: Stanley Kramer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Double Jeopardy

Thriller | 1999

Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) awakens to find herself adrift at sea, with her husband missing and her hands covered with his blood. She's arrested for murder and loses everything, including her son. But while in prison, Libby finds out she's been framed. Now, the law of "double jeopardy" -- and the desire to kill her "late" husband for good - is all Libby has left, even if it means outwitting her sympathetic parole officer (Tommy Lee Jones).

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd

Director: Bruce Beresford

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Double Man, The

Thriller | 1945

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.

Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Double, The

Thriller | 2011

A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.

Cast: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen

Director: Michael Brandt

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Drive

Thriller | 2011

A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Duplicity

Thriller | 2009

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen co-star in this curveball-throwing thriller as a pair of romantically involved corporate operatives who are entangled in a bitter rivalry between two mammoth pharmaceutical companies. Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson convincingly round out the heavyweight cast as warring big pharma CEOs in this intriguing espionage effort from writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton).

Cast: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen

Director: Tony Gilroy

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Edge Of Darkness

Thriller | 2009

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's (Bojana Novakovic) killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone

Director: Martin Campbell

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Fail-Safe

Thriller | 1964

Director Sidney Lumet transforms the doomsday scenario played for laughs in Dr. Strangelove into a taut thriller. When a computer glitch sends a bomber crew on a suicide mission to Moscow, the U.S. president (Henry Fonda) agonizes over how to stop it. Will Fonda tell the Russians to shoot down the plane? Global thermonuclear war may hinge on his decision.

Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Faster

Thriller | 2010

On the very day he's released from a 10-year prison sentence, convicted bank robber Driver (Dwayne Johnson) hits the streets to take revenge on the men who bungled the job that got him busted and his beloved brother killed. But close on Driver's tail are a driven cop (Billy Bob Thornton) on the one hand and a flamboyant contract killer (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) on the other. George Tillman Jr. directs this thriller that also stars Carla Gugino.

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton

Director: George Tillman Jr.

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Fifth Estate, The

Thriller | 2013

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Carice van Houten

Director: Bill Condon

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Fight Club

Thriller | 1999

An insomnia-stricken corporate drone (Edward Norton) meets roguish rebel Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and together they form a cathartic but brutal underground society where men fight each other freely. But the line between reality and sleepless haze starts to really blur when propagandist Durden transforms Fight Club from a group of men rebelling against conformity into a nihilistic cult with greater malice in store. Helena Bonham Carter co-stars.

Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Director: David Fincher

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Final Analysis

Thriller | 1992

To understand the traumatic memories stemming from an alluring patient's past, San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) enlists the aid of her married sister, Heather (Kim Basinger). But when Barr embarks on a torrid affair with Heather, his breach of professional ethics may make him the perfect patsy in a Machiavellian scheme that leads to murder. Uma Thurman co-stars in this intricate psychological thriller.

Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger

Director: Phil Joanou

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Flock, The

Thriller | 2006

Dedicated and cautious federal agent Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) is training his sharp young replacement, Allison Laurie (Claire Danes), when a young girl vanishes. Babbage is convinced the girl's disappearance is connected with a paroled sex offender he's investigating. Can mentor and protege unravel the clues to lead them to the missing girl before it's too late? This thriller marks Hong Kong director Andrew Lau's English-language debut.

Cast: Richard Gere, Claire Danes

Director: Wai-keung Lau

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Flypaper

Thriller | 2011

Unscrupulous Californians will do anything to get their hands on a million bucks in this twisted tale, which intertwines three story lines. Bobby Ray (Craig Sheffer) abducts a meth-lab chemist (Lucy Liu) and sets off to find his druggie girlfriend (Sadie Frost), who's in the custody of her real-estate magnate dad (Robert Loggia) -- a man in danger of being kidnapped. Meanwhile, jealous Laura (Illeana Douglas) must deal with a philandering fiance.

Cast: Lucy Liu, Craig Sheffer

Director: Klaus Hoch

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Foreign Correspondent

Thriller | 1940

Hitchcock's classic thriller stars Joel McCrea as Johnny Jones, a naive New York reporter sent on assignment to Europe on the eve of World War II. Amidst the volatile atmosphere of the impending war, Jones stumbles on a deadly conspiracy devised by Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall), whose spy ring masquerades as a peace organization. Fisher's daughter Carol (Laraine Day) lends a hand as Jones races to expose the story - and tries to stay alive.

Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Fracture

Thriller | 2007

Anthony Hopkins stars in this legal thriller as Ted Crawford, a man who allegedly attempted to murder his wife and is now locked in a battle of wits with a young assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). The D.A. is convinced Crawford has blood on his hands, but Crawford is freed on a technicality, sending Beachum on an obsessive mission to prove Crawford's guilt - even if he has to bend the law to do it.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Frozen Ground, The

Thriller | 2013

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, Dean Norris

Director: Scott Walker

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Game Of Death

Thriller | 2010

When a high-profile diplomat narrowly misses death at the hands of a skilled assassin, a bold bodyguard (Wesley Snipes) rushes the politician to the hospital and prepares for the hired gun's partners to come and finish the job. But how long can one man and his new ally, an ordinary nurse, hold out against the coming siege? Giorgio Serafini directs this action-packed thriller that also features Zoe Bell, Robert Davi and Quinn Duffy.

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Zoe Bell

Director: Giorgio Serafini

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Game, The

Thriller | 1997

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn) - a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn

Director: David Fincher

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Getaway, The

Thriller | 1972

Master thief Carter "Doc" McCoy (Steve McQueen) gets bailed out of prison by his wife, Carol (Ali MacGraw), on the condition that the two pull off a bank heist for a corrupt politician (Ben Johnson). But Doc learns that things aren't on the level, and he and Carol escape with the loot. With nothing but the money and each other, Doc and Carol flee from a crew of criminals with vengeance on their mind. Sam Peckinpah directs this hit crime thriller.

Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ghost Writer, The

Thriller | 2010

A writer (Ewan McGregor) stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman Polanski's tense drama, the author realizes that his discovery threatens some very powerful people who will do anything to ensure that certain episodes from Lang's past remain buried.

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jon Bernthal

Director: Roman Polanski

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, The (Luftslottet Som Sprangdes)

Thriller | 2009

Third in a trio of films inspired by Swedish author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," this thriller follows feisty computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) as she finds herself hospitalized, suspected of murder and targeted for death by thugs. Meanwhile, Lisbeth's journalist pal, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), crusades to prove her innocence. Daniel Alfredson directs this film that also stars Lena Endre and Jacob Ericksson.

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Director: Daniel Alfredson

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Girl Who Played With Fire, The (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)

Thriller | 2009

Tech expert Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) becomes the prime suspect when two journalists, including Dag Svensson (Hans Christian Thulin), die after Millennium magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) launches an expose of the Swedish sex trade. In Part 2 of the trilogy based on the action novels of Stieg Larsson, the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist

Director: Daniel Alfredson

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The (Man Som Hatar Kvinnor)

Thriller | 2009

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and rebellious computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's (Sven-Bertil Taube) teen niece (Ewa Froling), only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family. Niels Arden Oplev directs this Swedish thriller based on the first novel from Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy.

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Good Thief, The

Thriller | 2003

In acclaimed director Neil Jordan's remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's classic Bob le Flambeur, Nick Nolte stars as Bob Montagnet, a middle-aged gambler caught up in the seedy underworld of Nice, France. When a last-ditch effort to free himself from his self-destructive spiral of drugs and gambling falls through, Montagnet faces his toughest hand yet. Tcheky Karyo also stars in this stylish neo-noir crime thriller.

Cast: Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo

Director: Neil Jordan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Gravity

Thriller | 2013

A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit.

Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris

Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Green Zone

Thriller | 2009

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agent Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) doesn't want to hear what Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) has to say about not finding the weapons of mass destruction - evidence that could launch a war - he's been sent to Iraq to unearth. Why the cover-up? Rajiv Chandrasekaran's expose Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone inspired this frenetic wartime drama. Paul Greengrass directs.

Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear

Director: Paul Greengrass

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Guilty As Sin

Thriller | 1993

In this intriguing Sidney Lumet-directed thriller, Rebecca De Mornay plays Jennifer Baines, a smart, seasoned defense attorney who takes on the challenging case of David Greenhill (Don Johnson), a womanizing opportunist charged with the murder of his rich wife. With unquestionable motive and little compassion, Baines's new client proves too shady to trust, so the lawyer begins her own investigation - placing herself in a game of cat-and-mouse.

Cast: Don Johnson, Rebecca De Mornay

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Headhunters

Thriller | 2011

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Cast: Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Director: Morten Tyldum

Genre: Thriller

Language: Norwegian (English subtitles)

Hit List, The

Thriller | 2010

Screenwriter brothers Chad and Evan Law penned this gripping action-thriller about a man (Cole Hauser) who bends a stranger's (Cuba Gooding Jr.) ear during a night of drinking - and accidentally sentences the people he complains about to die. The moral implications are bad enough. But when the people on his theoretical "hit list" start turning up truly dead, a detective (Jonathan LaPaglia) gets awfully suspicious.

Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Cole Hauser

Director: William Kaufman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Hit, The

Thriller | 1984

Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long way to Paris...

Cast: Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke

Director: Stephen Frears

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Holcroft Covenant, The

Thriller | 1985

Noel Holcroft (Michael Caine), a German native adopted by American parents, learns that his biological father was one of Adolf Hitler's financial advisers in director John Frankenheimer's intriguing adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel. Noel's father leaves him a fortune, with instructions to distribute it to holocaust survivors. But as Noel carries out his mission, he comes to realize that fascists are using the money to start a new regime.

Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews

Director: John Frankenheimer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

House Of Games

Thriller | 1987

Psychologist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) decides to help one of her patients out of a gambling debt. Margaret finds the person to whom the money is owed: slick-talking Mike (Joe Mantegna). Mike, who runs poker games, persuades Margaret to help him look for "tells," or telltale body language, in a game. She falls for the con and for Mike, becoming deeply involved in his world. David Mamet wrote and directed this psychological thriller.

Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

House On Carroll Street, The

Thriller | 1988

Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis), a Life Magazine photography editor, is fired for refusing to name names in a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. Undaunted by the McCarthy witch-hunters, she takes a new job as a caretaker for Miss Venable (Jessica Tandy). One day, Emily overhears a suspicious conversation in the house next door and suspects that she's stumbled on a conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States.

Cast: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels

Director: Peter Yates

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Hunting Party, The

Thriller | 2007

Richard Gere stars as a struggling journalist who sets out with a fellow reporter (Jesse Eisenberg) and a cameraman (Terrence Howard) to hunt Bosnia's most notorious war criminal, known as "the Fox." But they become the quarry when their target mistakes them for CIA assassins. Diane Kruger, James Brolin and Ljubomir Kerekes also star in writer-director Richard Shepard's tense thriller with a comic twist.

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Richard Gere

Director: Richard Shepard

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Hurt Locker, The

Thriller | 2008

Kathryn Bigelow directs this gripping drama (nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards) following one of the U.S. Army's elite EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) teams operating in the ferocious war zone of Iraq. As the squad identifies and dismantles improvised explosive devices and other bombs, they must also contend with the frayed nerves and internal conflicts that arise from living in constant peril. Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie star.

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

I Confess

Thriller | 1953

In this memorable Alfred Hitchcock thriller, all Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) wants to be is a good priest, but his calling is made more complicated after someone confesses a murder to him and he's subsequently blamed for the death. The fastest way to clear his name is to divulge what he knows, but doing so would break his vows as a clergyman and alienate members of his flock who trust he will keep their secrets private.

Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ides Of March, The

Thriller | 2011

Director-star George Clooney's The Ides of March is the perfect film to mirror our time, when the approval rating of the United States Congress is at an all-time low and the divisions between the two major parties and their constituents are wider than ever. The backdrop is the Ohio Democratic primary, a tight race between Morris and a senator from Arkansas. The story's twists and turns are, for the most part, surprising enough to keep you in your seat.

Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei

Director: George Clooney

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Inception

Thriller | 2010

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) cuts a deal with Saito (Ken Watanabe) and agrees to use his ability to enter people's dreams for a special assignment involving business titan Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy). Along for the labyrinth-infused ride is Cobb's new mind "architect," Ariadne (Ellen Page). Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger and Dileep Rao also star in this sci-fi thriller from writer-director Christopher Nolan.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Internal Affairs

Thriller | 1990

New Los Angeles Police Department internal affairs investigator Sgt. Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) sets his sights on Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a suave but corrupt cop who's been involved in police brutality and bribery for years. Peck, however, has his own carefully calculated way of striking back at the detective, starting with Avila's partner and family. The tension builds to a riveting climax under the direction of Mike Figgis.

Cast: William Baldwin, Andy Garcia

Director: Mike Figgis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

International, The

Thriller | 2009

Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and New York Asst. DA Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) team up to expose a global financial institution's money laundering, arms dealing and other illegal rackets in this tense thriller from director Tom Tykwer. As the pair race from New York to Milan and beyond to pursue their case, they soon discover that the ruthless bank will stop at nothing to continue its profitable activities.

Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts

Director: Tom Tykwer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Interpreter, The

Thriller | 2005

Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is a linguist whose job is to translate for her assigned delegate the complex issues facing the United Nations. But her daily challenge turns perilous when she overhears a plot to assassinate a high-ranking government official. Suddenly in the crosshairs of the conspirators, Silvia - with help from a Secret Service agent (Sean Penn) - must unravel an intricate web of intrigue to save herself.

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn

Director: Sydney Pollack

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

John Rabe

Thriller | 2009

Florian Gallenberger directs this gripping drama about John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), a German businessman living in Nanking, China, who in 1937 used his Nazi party affiliation to save some 200,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter at the hands of the Japanese army. As Rabe labors to establish an official safety zone to shelter the innocent, he forms an unlikely friendship with an American doctor (Steve Buscemi). Anne Consigny and Daniel Bruhl co-star.

Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Steve Buscemi

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

Journey Into Fear

Thriller | 1943

A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying in and boards a ship, only to find, after the ship sails, that the agents have followed him there.

Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio

Director: Norman Foster

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Kill The Irishman

Thriller | 2011

This true crime tale from director Jonathan Hensleigh charts the bloody rise and fall of Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson), who faced down the Mafia to claim control of organized crime in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s. Based on Rick Porrello's book, Hensleigh's hard-hitting film also features Christopher Walken as well-connected nightclub owner Shondor Birns and Val Kilmer as the cop who befriends Greene against his better judgement.

Cast: Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Killer Elite, The

Thriller | 1975

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Cast: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Killer Inside Me, The

Thriller | 2010

West Texas Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is harboring a deep dark secret - while the small town's residents think him a bit dim, Lou is actually affected by a "sickness" that turns the mild-mannered peace officer into a brutal, psychotic killer. Set in the 1950s, Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's classic noir novel co-stars Kate Hudson as Lou's innocent girlfriend and Jessica Alba as Joyce, a local prostitute.

Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Killing Jar, The

Thriller | 2010

Late one night in a diner, seven people listen to a radio report of the slaughter of a nearby family. When Doe (Michael Madsen) enters, he's immediately a suspect, and the suspicion is confirmed when he pulls out a gun and holds everyone hostage. But as tensions mount, some begin to believe Doe's not the predator he seems to be. Amber Benson, Harold Perrineau, Lew Temple and Danny Trejo co-star in this riveting thriller.

Cast: Michael Madsen, Amber Benson

Director: Mark Young

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Killshot

Thriller | 2008

Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.

Cast: Thomas Jane, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke

Director: John Madden

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Kiss The Girls

Thriller | 1997

Forensic psychologist Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone in this tense psychological thriller based on James Patterson's best-selling novel.

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd

Director: Gary Fleder

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ledge, The

Thriller | 2011

This unusual, character-driven thriller follows young hotel manager Gavin (Charlie Hunnam), who steps out onto a high ledge to commit suicide. World-weary police officer Hollis (Terrence Howard) is assigned to talk him down but is tormented by traumatic issues of his own. The men find themselves debating atheism, faith and the meaning of life, and soon are embroiled in a battle of wills that has each man questioning his commitment to his chosen path.

Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard

Director: Matthew Chapman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Limitless

Thriller | 2011

With his writing career dragging and his girlfriend casting him off, Eddie Morra's life turns around when he takes a drug that provides astonishing mental focus - but its deadly side effects threaten his future.

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro

Director: Neil Burger

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, The

Thriller | 1976

Rynn's (Jodie Foster) father's dying wish is for his daughter to continue to have autonomy even after he's gone. To prepare her, he trains the teen to live independently and keep a low profile in the house they own on the outskirts of town. After his death, everything appears to go according to plan - until the neighbors catch wind of the fact that Rynn's now all alone... and not everyone has good intentions.

Cast: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen

Director: Nicholas Gessner

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Lives Of Others, The (Das Leben der Anderen)

Thriller | 2007

Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family - and even those doing the watching - find their lives forever changed.

Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

London Boulevard

Thriller | 2010

Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell (In Bruges) stars in this gritty crime drama as Mitchell, a recently paroled ex-con whose attempt at straight life includes taking a job as a handyman for a reclusive young starlet (Keira Knightley). Based on author Ken Bruen's critically acclaimed novel, this adaptation marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed).

Cast: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell

Director: William Monahan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

London To Brighton

Thriller | 2006

Via nonlinear flashbacks, writer-director Paul Andrew Williams delivers a BAFTA-nominated feature debut that incorporates five main characters into one undeniably riveting plot over the course of a single, tension-filled day. The action unfolds as two girls (Lorraine Stanley and Georgia Groome) burst into a public restroom with serious injuries, and another man lies bleeding to death. How they got that way forms the basis for a tangled thriller.

Cast: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome

Director: Paul Andrew Williams

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Mackintosh Man, The

Thriller | 1973

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason

Director: John Huston

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Man On A Ledge

Thriller | 2012

As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell

Director: Asger Leth

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Man Who Knew Too Much, The

Thriller | 1956

While vacationing in Morocco, American tourist Ben McKenna (James Stewart) learns of an assassination plot but can't turn to the police without endangering his young son, who's been kidnapped to ensure McKenna's silence. Director Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful remake of his 1934 thriller features a rare dramatic turn by Doris Day as Ben's wife and makes legendary use of the Oscar-winning tune "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)."

Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Manchurian Candidate, The

Thriller | 1962

A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh

Director: John Frankenheimer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Marnie

Thriller | 1964

Blonde ice princess and habitual thief Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) uses her looks to gain the confidence of Philadelphia playboy Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), who begins to fall for her only when he realizes she's planning to embezzle money from his insurance company. After patiently spying on her, he discovers that the root of her problem is embedded in serious psychological troubles induced by childhood trauma. Alfred Hitchcock directs.

Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Mechanic, The

Thriller | 1972

Charles Bronson (looking gnarled as ever) works alone as a hit man for "The Organization." But when willing acolyte Jan-Michael Vincent proves he has the stuff aspiring killers are made of, Bronson agrees to train him. Looks like it might be a case of the pupil overtaking the master, though, when Vincent begins to get some peculiar ideas of his own. Directed by Bronson perennial Michael Winner.

Cast: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent

Director: Michael Winner

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Megan Is Missing

Thriller | 2011

Employing a mix of storytelling techniques (including webcam footage, video chats and dramatized news reports), this chillingly realistic thriller charts the disappearance of two teens who vanish three weeks apart under mysterious circumstances.

Cast: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn

Director: Michael Goi

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Michael Clayton

Thriller | 2007

Screenwriter Tony Gilroy delivers a finely tuned directorial debut with this dramatic thriller about burned-out corporate lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a man who's built his career on cleaning up other people's messes. When a guilt-ridden colleague (Tom Wilkinson) threatens the settlement of a multimillion-dollar case, Clayton faces his biggest challenge yet. Tilda Swinton nabbed an Oscar for her turn as a conflicted general counsel.

Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson

Director: Tony Gilroy

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Monsieur Hire

Thriller | 1989

Reclusive middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc) spies nightly on his seductive neighbor, Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), through her undraped windows. She seems to welcome the attention... until a 22-year-old woman's nude corpse turns up in the vicinity. Suspicion quickly falls on the voyeuristic Hire, and an erotic game of cat and mouse unspools - with a twist - in this spellbinding French thriller from director Patrice Leconte.

Cast: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire

Director: Patrice Leconte

Genre: Thriller

Language: French (English subtitles)

Morning After, The

Thriller | 1986

Alex Sternberg (Jane Fonda) wakes up with a fierce hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed next to a dead man. She's convinced that she's had another blackout and stabbed the now-deceased stranger (who eerily keeps reappearing). To make matters worse, her only support, Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), is an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic who's largely unsympathetic to her plight. Raul Julia co-stars. Sidney Lumet directs.

Cast: Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Mr Brooks

Thriller | 2007

Kevin Costner plays against type, starring as a man caught in a deadly downward spiral - and at war with his own alter ego (William Hurt) - in this psychological thriller from writer-director team Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me). Demi Moore co-stars as a sharp-witted police detective whose passion for her job attracts the attention - and respect - of the very serial killer she's tracking.

Cast: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore

Director: Bruce A. Evans

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Munich

Thriller | 2005

In this thriller based on actual events, Palestinian terrorists hold hostage and ultimately kill a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, prompting a Mossad agent (Eric Bana) to track down the assassins in the tragic aftermath. Ciaran Hinds and Geoffrey Rush co-star in this film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner, the award-winning playwright of "Angels in America."

Cast: Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush

Director: Steven Spielberg

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Narc

Thriller | 2002

When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.

Cast: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride

Director: Joe Carnahan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Narrow Margin

Thriller | 1990

In this loose remake of a 1952 noir classic, Carol Hunnicut (Anne Archer) experiences the worst blind date imaginable when mob thugs slay her companion. Realizing she's the lone witness to the crime, Carol flees to a remote mountain home to hide. District Attorney Robert Caulfield (Gene Hackman) wants her to testify and follows her, but he's not the only one determined to track her down - the mobsters are hot on her trail, too.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer

Director: Peter Hyams

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Narrow Margin, The

Thriller | 1952

Film noir staple Charles McGraw stars as hard-boiled cop Walter Brown, who's assigned to transport a mobster's moll (played to perfection by Marie Windsor) from Chicago to Los Angeles - where she's set to testify before the grand jury. Naturally, danger turns up on the train in the form of syndicate goons sent to silence the witness; trouble is, they have no idea what she looks like. Richard Fleischer helmed this fast-paced crime thriller.

Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor

Director: Richard Fleischer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Negotiator, The

Thriller | 1998

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson), who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator (Kevin Spacey) be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey

Director: F. Gary Gray

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Next Three Days, The

Thriller | 2010

When his wife (Elizabeth Banks) is sent to jail on murder charges she fervidly denies, college professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe) comes up with a plan to break her out by meticulously plotting the ultimate escape - despite the fact that he's never committed a crime in his life. Writer-producer Paul Haggis (Crash) also directs this remake of the French film "Pour Elle" by Fred Cavaye. Liam Neeson and Brian Dennehy co-star.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks

Director: Paul Haggis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Niagara

Thriller | 1953

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Director: Henry Hathaway

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ninth Gate, The

Thriller | 1999

An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom" brings an unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship. Director Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby) creates a richly textured gothic mystery where the hunter becomes the hunted and the devil must be paid his due.

Cast: Johnny Depp, Lena Olin

Director: Roman Polanski

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

No Mercy

Thriller | 1986

A scorching action thriller with Richard Gere as hard-edged Chicago cop Eddie Jillette, whose partner is savagely slain by a Cajun kingpin named Losado (Jeroen Krabbe). Eddie vows to get even, and his vendetta leads him to the Big Easy. To flush his quarry, Eddie spirits away Losado's sultry ladylove (Kim Basinger). Cop and captive flee into the bayou - tailed by Losado and his goons - and as the danger escalates, so does their mutual passion.

Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger

Director: Richard Pearce

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

No Way Out

Thriller | 1987

At a Washington, D.C., bash, Navy officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets and begins a steamy liaison with Susan Atwell (Sean Young), later learning she's the mistress of Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman). When Susan ends up dead, Farrell gets caught in a conspiratorial web that endangers national security and uncovers high-level personal secrets. Brice and his minions attempt to conceal the tryst while flushing out a Soviet mole.

Cast: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman

Director: Roger Donaldson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Nobel Son

Thriller | 2007

On the verge of receiving the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Prof. Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman) learns that kidnappers have snatched his son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg), a promising graduate student. But when the captors want a ransom of $2 million - the exact amount of the Nobel Prize money - the self-serving Eli refuses to cough up the cash in this vitriolic tale about an acutely dysfunctional family. Shawn Hatosy and Mary Steenburgen also star.

Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg

Director: Randall Miller

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Notorious

Thriller | 1946

Government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits American beauty Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) to spy on her father's influential Nazi friends in this top-notch Alfred Hitchcock espionage thriller that builds to an incredibly suspenseful climax. As part of her cover, Alicia marries one of her father's associates (Claude Rains), but she finds she's falling hopelessly in love with the man who hired her.

Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Now You See Me

Thriller | 2013

In this visually spectacular blend of astonishing illusions and exhilarating action from director Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans), four talented magicians mesmerize an international audience with a series of bold and original heists, all the while pursuing a hidden agenda that has the FBI and Interpol scrambling to anticipate their next move.

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo

Director: Louis Leterrier

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Number Seventeen

Thriller | 1932

In Number 17, a detective (John Stuart) discovers a gang of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.

Cast: Carl Brisson, Lilian Hall Davis

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Odessa File, The

Thriller | 1974

After finding the diary of a Holocaust survivor who had recently committed suicide, journalist Peter Miller (Jon Voight) begins following the trail of an SS officer who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller soon finds himself involved with an organization of former SS members called Odessa as well as with the Israeli secret service. Further probing reveals a link between the officer, Odessa and Miller's own family.

Cast: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell

Director: Ronald Neame

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Thriller | 2000

Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) is a happy-go-lucky thief and head of a gang who takes delight in plotting and executing heists with the kind of elan that makes him a popular and charismatic figure in the very Dublin that he plunders. The story is loosely based on the life of Irish freedom fighter Martin Cahill, also chronicled in the 1998 film The General. Linda Fiorentino, Colin Farrell and Christoph Waltz co-star in this gangster thriller.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Osterman Weekend, The

Thriller | 1983

An investigative reporter for a TV news show throws a big soiree every year to which he invites his closest friends. But the C.I.A. dumps a wet blanket on the festivities when they tell him that his "friends" are really Soviet agents. Who do you believe? This pulse-pounding thriller stars Rutger Hauer, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, John Hurt and Meg Foster. This was director Sam Peckinpah's final film, adapted from the novel by Robert Ludlum.

Cast: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Out Of Time

Thriller | 2003

Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington), chief of police in the small town of Banyan Key, Fla., is respected by his peers and loved by his community. But when Banyan Key is shocked by a double homicide, everything Whitlock thought he knew starts to unravel. It's a race against time to solve the murders as Whitlock himself falls under suspicion. Now, to uncover the truth, he'll have to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes

Director: Carl Franklin

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Oxford Murders, The

Thriller | 2008

After Oxford logic professor Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) and his new graduate student Martin (Elijah Wood) discover a dead woman, they get involved in trying to solve a string of homicides in which the killer marked each victim's body with cryptic mathematical symbols. As the stakes get higher, Martin's grasp on reality becomes increasingly tenuous in this thriller based on the award-winning novel by writer and mathematician Guillermo Martinez.

Cast: Elijah Wood, John Hurt

Director: Alex de la Iglesia

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Package, The

Thriller | 1989

Set during the Cold War, this political thriller stars Gene Hackman as Johnny Gallagher, an Army officer who's tasked with transporting political prisoner Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) from Germany to the United States - and loses his mark in the airport bathroom. When Gallagher learns that Boyette is part of a complex scheme to assassinate the Soviet premier and sabotage arms-control talks, he tries everything to recover the lost "package."

Cast: Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

Director: Andrew Davis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Paperboy, The

Thriller | 2012

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack

Director: Lee Daniels

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Paradine Case, The

Thriller | 1947

Gregory Peck stars as London barrister Anthony Keane, who falls in love with Maddalena Paradine (Allda Valli) - the alluring client he's representing in a murder case. Though Keane believes she's innocent, he's facing a hostile judge (Charles Laughton). There's also the tough prosecutor (Leo G. Carroll). By letting his feelings get in the way, Keane may implicate himself in the crime when he tries to pin the rap on her valet (Louis Jourdan).

Cast: Gregory Peck, Alida Valli

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Parkland

Thriller | 2013

A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Cast: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton

Director: Peter Landesman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Pawn

Thriller | 2013

A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.

Cast: Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Michael Chiklis

Director: David A. Armstrong

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Peacock

Thriller | 2009

Bank clerk John Skillpa (Cillian Murphy) hides a disturbing past from everyone in small-town Peacock, Neb. When a train jumps the tracks and crashes into John's backyard, his neighbors discover a confused woman named Emma milling about. They rush to aid the woman they assume is John's wife, but their efforts prompt John to descend into psychosis. Only Maggie (Ellen Page), a young mother, seems to know the truth behind his bizarre behavior.

Cast: Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy

Director: Michael Lander

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Perfect Host, The

Thriller | 2010

fugitive on the lam decides to crash a dinner party. But he seriously regrets it when the mysterious and unusual host soon has him convinced that he would have been better off hiding somewhere else. David Hyde Pierce plays the memorable Warwick Wilson; Nathaniel Parker, Clayne Crawford and Helen Reddy also star in this thriller from first-time feature writer-director Nick Tomnay.

Cast: David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford|

Director: Nick Tomnay

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Perrier's Bounty

Thriller | 2009

Dublin gangster Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) orders his henchmen to collect a debt from small-time crook Michael (Cillian Murphy). But when Michael's unstable pal, Brenda (Jodie Whittaker), accidentally shoots one of the goons during the shakedown, the freaked-out couple must go on the run. Complications mount when Michael's estranged dad, Jim (Jim Broadbent), comes along for the ride in this twisty crime comedy.

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson

Director: Ian Fitzgibbon

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Population 436

Thriller | 2006

For a century, Rockwell Falls has had the same number of residents: 436. A census taker (Jeremy Sisto) is sent there to figure out how the town managed to accomplish such a dubious feat in this disturbing drama. Once he arrives, he quickly senses all's not well and is subsequently stripped of his freedom. If he doesn't fall in line with the village's oppressive rules, he may end up lost forever. David Ames and Fred Durst co-star.

Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Fred Durst

Director: Michelle Maxwell MacLaren

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Presumed Innocent

Thriller | 1990

Presumed Innocent is a suspenseful whodunit, a sexy thriller, a powerful courtroom drama & a dazzling vehicle for Harrison Ford. He plays a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a co-worker (Greta Scacchi) who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies & hidden passions.

Cast: Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Primal Fear

Thriller | 1996

When a blood-spattered altar boy (Ed Norton) is found running from a murder scene, his conviction seems certain. But when arrogant defense attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) steps in, the issue of the boy's possible guilt may be less important than winning the case. Based on the novel by William Diehl, this twisty thriller delivers a perfect police procedural with characters that are deeper than they appear.

Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Proof Of Life

Thriller | 2000

Engineer Peter Bowman (David Morse) moves with his wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), to a small Central American country to help build infrastructure, but ends up getting kidnapped by a radical revolutionary group seeking ransom. That's when Terry Thorn (Russell Crowe) steps in. An expert in hostage negotiation, Terry works tirelessly to free Peter, but finds himself increasingly attracted to Alice, who feels the same way. Taylor Hackford directs.

Cast: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe

Director: Taylor Hackford

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Red Corner

Thriller | 1997

An American businessman (Richard Gere) finds himself charged with murder and thrown headfirst into China's nightmarish legal system in this thriller from director Jon Avnet. The director and his co-star, Bai Ling, filmed covertly in Beijing for a week without government approval. For the rest of the footage, production designer Richard Sylbert meticulously re-created the city on a Hollywood back lot, using hundreds of props imported from Beijing.

Cast: Richard Gere, Bradley Whitford

Director: Jon Avnet

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Red Eye

Thriller | 2005

Terrified of flying, Lisa (Rachel McAdams) reluctantly hops a red-eye flight bound for Miami and buckles up for a bumpy ride. But her phobia morphs into terror when she learns that a fellow passenger (Cillian Murphy) has plans to murder the deputy secretary of Homeland Security. Worse yet is that he wants to use her as part of the plot. Horror master Wes Craven directs this psychological thriller set at 30,000 feet.

Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy

Director: Wes Craven

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Red Lights

Thriller | 2012

Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy

Director: Rodrigo Cortes

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Reluctant Fundamentalist, The

Thriller | 2012

A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber

Director: Mira Nair

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Rendition

Thriller | 2007

Suspected of being a terrorist, Egyptian-born Anwar El-Ibrahim (Omar Metwally) "vanishes" from an international flight and is taken to a secret prison. Now, his wife, Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), desperately tries to uncover his whereabouts - as well as his true intentions. While she looks for answers, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) objects to the interrogation practices used on El-Ibrahim. Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin co-star.

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal

Director: Gavin Hood

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Reservoir Dogs

Thriller | 1992

Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is raw, violent, often mimicked -- and unforgettable. A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors - veteran Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), newcomer Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), bickering weasel Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) and Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn) - unravel.

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Rope

Thriller | 1948

Farley Granger and John Dall are riveting as two friends who pride themselves on committing the "perfect murder" - until their former teacher (James Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious - in this classic Hitchcock thriller inspired by a real-life crime. Over the course of a seemingly routine cocktail party, the professor, to his horror, will discover how brutally his students have turned his academic theories into chilling reality.

Cast: James Stewart, John Dall

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Rosary Murders, The

Thriller | 1987

A 1987 neo-noir mystery film starring Donald Sutherland as Father Koesler, the story involves a series of murders in which the victims are all either Roman Catholic priests or nuns, each of whom is found with a black rosary.

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning

Director: Fred Walton

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)

Thriller | 1998

A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

Director: Tom Tykwer

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

Runaway Jury

Thriller | 2003

In this drama based on John Grisham's best-selling novel, Nick Easter (John Cusack) gets himself on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer and, as the foreman, tries to influence the other jury members to vote a certain way. Meanwhile, Easter's girlfriend, Marlee (Rachel Weisz), tries to swindle the attorneys (Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman) to pay millions of dollars to have the jury return a verdict friendly to their clients.

Cast: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz

Director: Gary Fleder

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Runner Runner

Thriller | 2013

When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton

Director: Brad Furman

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Saboteur

Thriller | 1942

When aircraft plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is wrongly accused of sabotage and murder, he embarks on a cross-country chase for the actual culprit in this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Priscilla Lane. Chock-full of breathtaking chase scenes, crisp dialogue (courtesy of co-writer Dorothy Parker) and stunning locations, this World War II-era story leads Kane to a stunning climax atop the Statue of Liberty.

Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Safe House

Thriller | 2012

A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Patrick

Director: Daniel Espinosa

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Salt

Thriller | 2010

After she's accused of being a Russian sleeper spy, rogue CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) goes on the run, using every tactic, accent and disguise she knows to elude her pursuers, clear her name and protect her husband. Her supervisor, Winter (Liev Schreiber), buys her story, while counterintelligence officer Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) decidedly does not and will do anything to stop her in this fast-paced, intrigue-filled spy adventure.

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber

Director: Phillip Noyce

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Secret Beyond The Door

Thriller | 1948

Secret Beyond the Door is a psychological thriller about a woman who suspects her new husband, an architect, plans to kill her.

Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave

Director: Fritz Lang

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Seeking Justice

Thriller | 2011

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce

Director: Roger Donaldson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Shadow Of A Doubt

Thriller | 1943

In trademark style, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directs this taut and chilling tale about Charlie (Teresa Wright), a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle (Joseph Cotten) is a serial killer or not. The arrival of detectives and a suspicious neighbor (Hume Cronyn) only increase Charlie's paranoia. But tension builds as she draws closer to the truth, culminating in a nail-biting scene aboard a speeding train.

Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Shooter

Thriller | 2007

An expert marksman (Mark Wahlberg) is coaxed out of seclusion by colleagues who need his help in preventing a plot to kill the president. But he realizes he's been set up when he's framed for the assassination attempt. Can he elude the law long enough to bring the real culprits to justice? Danny Glover and Michael Pena (World Trade Center) co-star in this political thriller based on a novel by Stephen Hunter.

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Single Shot, A

Thriller | 2013

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

Cast: Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly

Director: David M. Rosenthal

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Sleuth

Thriller | 2007

Aging detective writer Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine) squares off against Milo Tindle (Jude Law), the struggling actor who stole Wyke's wife in this twisted - and twisty - plot of deception and double crosses from director Kenneth Branagh. Branagh steers a gripping screenplay by Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter, who stylishly updates the 1972 original - in which an Oscar-nominated Caine played the Milo role opposite Laurence Olivier's Andrew.

Cast: Michael Caine, Jude Law

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Small Town Murder Songs

Thriller | 2010

Tormented by his past and seeking redemption, Walter (Peter Stormare), the police chief of a Canadian Mennonite community, tries to solve a startling murder for which Steve (Stephen Eric McIntyre), the creepy boyfriend of Walter's bitter ex-lover (Jill Hennessy), is the chief suspect. Although he has a new, supportive girlfriend (Martha Plimpton), Walter is overwhelmed by the case and his stern family's disapproval in this intriguing thriller.

Cast: Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton

Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Son Of No One, The

Thriller | 2011

Channing Tatum stars as a young cop assigned to patrol his old Queens, N.Y., neighborhood in this independent thriller from Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) that takes off with the discovery of a long-dead secret. The film premiered at Sundance with a marquee cast that includes Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes and Tracy Morgan, who drops in for a little comic relief.

Cast: Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta

Director: Dito Montiel

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Spellbound

Thriller | 1945

Dr. Edwards (Gregory Peck) arrives at the Green Manors Mental Asylum and falls for the beautiful Dr. Petersen (Ingrid Bergman). But she discovers that he's a paranoid amnesiac impostor, which leaves her wondering: What happened to the real Dr. Edwards? Based on Francis Beeding's novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes", Spellbound - which was nominated for six Oscars and won for Best Original Score - is one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films.

Cast: Gregory Peck, John Emery, Ingrid Bergman

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Spy Game

Thriller | 2001

In this espionage thriller from director Tony Scott, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) is on the verge of retiring from the CIA when he learns that his one-time protege and close friend, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), is a political prisoner sentenced to die in Beijing. Although their friendship has been marred by bad blood and resentment, Muir agrees to take on the most dangerous mission of his career and rescue Bishop.

Cast: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt

Director: Tony Scott

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The

Thriller | 1965

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Cast: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom

Director: Martin Ritt

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Square, The

Thriller | 2008

Bored with married life, middle-aged Ray (David Roberts) devises a dangerous scheme to steal a large sum of money and run away with his beautiful young mistress, Carla (Claire van der Boom), in this neo-noir thriller from Australia. It looks as if the plot involving Carla's unscrupulous husband and a career arsonist is a success - until an anonymous blackmailer threatens to expose the truth. Anthony Hayes, Joel Edgerton and Peter Phelps co-star.

Cast: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom

Director: Nash Edgerton

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Stage Fright

Thriller | 1950

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

State Of Play

Thriller | 2009

When his mistress is found dead, Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) tries desperately to protect his name and career. As journalists Cal (Russell Crowe) and Della (Rachel McAdams) investigate further, they uncover an intricate web of lies that stretches to the highest levels of power. Based on the critically acclaimed BBC miniseries, this intriguing political thriller co-stars Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn and Jason Bateman.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck

Director: Kevin MacDonald

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Statement, The

Thriller | 2003

The buried sins of the past almost always find a way to surface in the present, as Frenchman Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) discovers in this drama directed by Norman Jewison. Pierre's quiet life in southern France is disrupted as he's haunted by his betrayals. During World War II, his Nazi sympathizing led to the deaths of 14 Jews. With a Nazi hunter (Tilda Swinton), the police and hired killers on his trail, it's his turn to be the hunted.

Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Stolen

Thriller | 2009

Investigating the mystery behind the mummified, half-century-old remains of a young boy found in a box at a construction site gives a detective (Jon Hamm) key clues to his own son's disappearance eight years prior. Unfolding through flashbacks, this mystery-thriller from director Anders Anderson also stars Josh Lucas, James Van Der Beek, Jessica Chastain, Rhona Mitra, Jimmy Bennett and Beth Grant.

Cast: Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm

Director: Anders Anderson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Stone

Thriller | 2010

Edward Norton plays a convicted arsonist who hopes to get out of prison early by putting to work the seductive talents of his beautiful wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich). Robert DeNiro plays the parole officer who is the target of the couple's cat-and-mouse scheming. John Curran (The Painted Veil) directs this subtle psychological thriller based on the play by screenwriter Angus MacLachlan (Junebug).

Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton

Director: John Curran

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Straw Dogs

Thriller | 1971

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Sum Of All Fears, The

Thriller | 2002

Why are three missing Russian nuclear scientists holed up in the Ukraine, communicating with neo-Nazis? CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) digs up more information than the U.S. government is willing to accept. As bombs kill thousands in Chechnya and the U.S., Ryan races against time to prevent all-out nuclear war. Based on the novel by Tom Clancy, this high-intensity technothriller co-stars Morgan Freeman.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Suspicion

Thriller | 1941

Shy and beautiful Lina (Joan Fontaine, in an Oscar-winning performance) falls head over heels for handsome gambler Johnnie (Cary Grant) - but after the couple elopes, she begins to fear for her life when she discovers Johnnie's true nature and dark past in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Lina's doubts about her husband are compounded when he expresses a growing fascination with poison and a colleague of his meets an untimely death.

Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Syriana

Thriller | 2005

America is at the beck and call of the Middle East when it comes to the oil industry, and all its players - Washington, sheiks, oil companies, field workers - intersect with each other in this political thriller from director Stephen Gaghan. The star-studded cast includes Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Chris Cooper, Christopher Plummer and George Clooney, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe for his role as CIA operative Bob Barnes.

Cast: George Clooney, Michelle Monaghan

Director: Stephen Gaghan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Talented Mr Ripley, The

Thriller | 1999

Charming sociopath Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) maneuvers his way into the lush life of a young heir (Jude Law) vacationing in Italy in this increasingly creepy thriller from Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. Nominated for multiple Oscars, the film features breathtaking cinematography and standout performances from all involved (including Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow

Director: Anthony Minghella

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Tenderness

Thriller | 2008

After completing his stint in a juvenile detention center for murder, 18-year-old ex-con Eric Poole (Jon Foster) embarks on a hazardous road trip with Lori, a hyper teen (Sophie Traub), close by his side. But little do the troubled pair know that they are being tracked by Det. Cristofuoro (Russell Crowe), a hard-nosed New York cop who's convinced that Poole is a psychopath capable of killing again.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster

Director: John Polson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Texas Killing Fields

Thriller | 2011

While trying to crack a string of unsolved murders in small-town Texas, local homicide detective Souder and his former New York City cop partner Heigh find themselves involved in a cat-and-mouse game with the killer.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Director: Ami Canaan Mann

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Thief

Thriller | 1981

Michael Mann directs James Caan as a professional safecracker named Frank, who specializes in high-profile diamond heists. Frank plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate this process, he signs on with a top gangster (Robert Prosky) for a big score. But when Frank tries to quit the job, the mob comes after him and his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld).

Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld

Director: Michael Mann

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Third Man, The

Thriller | 1949

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime, and Joseph Cotten plays his childhood friend, Holly Martins, in this all-time classic thriller scripted by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Martins searches for Lime through the seedy underworld of postwar Vienna and gets caught up in a web of love, deception, racketeering, and murder.

Cast:

Director: Carol Reed

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ticking Clock

Thriller | 2011

Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as Lewis Hicks, a crime reporter who's investigating a gory spate of serial murders - a task that hits horribly close to home when his new girlfriend is brutally murdered. Hicks gets a key lead when he discovers the killer's journal, which outlines his plans to ambush certain victims. But time is quickly running out for the madman's next targets. Neal McDonough co-stars in this fast-paced thriller.

Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough

Director: Ernie Barbarash

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Thriller | 1980

In this TV miniseries, author John Le Carre's wily spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is pulled out of retirement for a case that comes from officials close to the British prime minister. Seems a senior-ranking official from Smiley's old agency is a Russian spy, and it's up to Smiley to smoke him out ... all without access to circus files that could aid in the capture. One of the best TV adaptations of Le Carre's mysteries.

Cast: Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson

Director: John Irvin

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Thriller | 2011

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.

Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Topaz

Thriller | 1969

Based on the Leon Uris best-seller of the same name, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is a spy thriller set in the Cold War period surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis (fall 1962). Competing American, French and Cuban spies fight over secrets that both Washington and Moscow want to get their hands on in action that ranges from Harlem, N.Y., to Paris and Havana. See if you can spot the master's cameo about 30 minutes into the movie.

Cast: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Torn Curtain, The

Thriller | 1966

In Alfred Hitchcock's 50th thriller, an American scientist (Paul Newman) heads off to Copenhagen for a conference with his fiancee (Julie Andrews) in tow, only to see her get drawn into his dangerous espionage activities behind the Iron Curtain. The leading man and leading lady - two A-list Hollywood stars - were at the height of their careers, and decidedly nontraditional choices for the maverick English director.

Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Tourist, The

Thriller | 2010

Watery Venice, Italy, provides the setting as Johnny Depp, playing an American tourist seeking solace for his shattered heart, instead finds it in danger again after encountering a beautiful Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie). Little does the Yank know that the artful lady has gone to great lengths to arrange their "chance" meeting and is using him to trap a thief who happens to be her ex-lover. The film earned Golden Globe nods for Depp and Jolie.

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Town, The

Thriller | 2010

Career bank robber Doug (Ben Affleck) and his volatile partner, Jim (Jeremy Renner), hit a roadblock when Doug falls for bank manager Claire (Rebecca Hall), whom he kidnapped during their last heist. Worse, an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) is now trailing the thieves around their Charlestown, Mass., territory. Affleck directs and co-writes this smart, intricate actioner that co-stars Blake Lively as Krista, Jim's sister and Doug's troubled former flame.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall

Director: Ben Affleck

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Traitor

Thriller | 2008

Tenacious FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) is assigned to pursue Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), an ex-Special Ops soldier who betrayed his country and joined the Al Nathir terrorist organization. But as he closes in, Clayton begins to second-guess Horn's true intentions. Jeff Daniels and Neal McDonough co-star in this intelligent and exciting spy thriller that also examines the beliefs and motivations behind terrorism.

Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Tresspass

Thriller | 2011

Two firefighters (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) are pointed in the direction of stolen goods at an abandoned warehouse and set out to cash in - but instead witness the vicious murder of a gangster by a rival gang. When one gang leader realizes that the two men have seen the killing, he immediately puts a hit on them, only to have the tables turned when the firefighters kidnap the gang leader's brother. Rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube co-star.

Cast: Bill Paxton, Ice-T

Director: Walter Hill

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Triage

Thriller | 2009

Colin Farrell stars in this psychological drama about a photojournalist who returns home from a harrowing news assignment without the colleague who'd accompanied him. Now, his girlfriend (Paz Vega) will not rest until she finds out what took place. Bosnian helmer Danis Tanovic, whose No Man's Land won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, directed this taut, dark drama shot on location in Ireland.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Christopher Lee

Director: Danis Tanovic

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Triple Cross

Thriller | 1966

Loosely based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman who finds himself caught between the waring parties in WW2, the British and the Germans. Working as a spy for both sides he tries to play the 3rd Reich and the British against each other.

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard

Director: Terence Young

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Twilight

Thriller | 1988

Harry Ross (Paul Newman) is a Hollywood private eye who's living out his golden years in the house of two fading movie stars - Catherine (Susan Sarandon) and Jack Ames (Gene Hackman). But his life gets complicated when he uncovers clues to a long-unsolved murder in this smart and stylish mystery from Robert Benton. The all-star cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, James Garner and Liev Schreiber.

Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman

Director: Robert Benton

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Two Jakes, The

Thriller | 1990

World War II is over, and an older, wiser Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) still works divorce cases. Developer Jake Berman (Harvey Keitel) wants Gittes to obtain proof that Berman's wife is cheating on him. (He also wants other things Gittes doesn't know about.) Great supporting work from Keitel and Chinatown scribe Robert Towne's crackling script make The Two Jakes a worthy sequel. Nicholson also directs.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel

Director: Jack Nicholson

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Ultimate Heist

Thriller | 2009

Hoping to escape the long shadow of his father, Milo (Jean Reno), a powerful mobster who controls an organized crime syndicate in France, Anton Malakian (Gaspard Ulliel) plans one final heist that will enable him to begin a new life. But he soon discovers that extricating himself from the criminal underworld is more difficult - and dangerous - than he expected. This thriller from director Laurent Tuel co-stars Vahina Giocante.

Cast: Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel

Director: Laurent Tuel

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Under Siege

Thriller | 1992

Director Andrew Davis's Oscar-nominated, action-packed thriller takes place on the soon to be decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix (Tommy Lee Jones), his assistant Krill (Gary Busey) and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) - an error that could be fatal.

Cast: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones|

Director: Andrew Davis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Under Suspicion

Thriller | 2000

This remake of a 1981 French thriller chronicles the harrowing experience of Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), a tax lawyer vacationing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who discovers the body of a murdered 12-year-old and promptly becomes the main suspect. Local cops Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman) and Detective Owens (Thomas Jane) will stop at nothing to catch their man, and Hearst must convince them they're mistaken. Who's telling the truth?

Cast: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Unfaithful, The

Thriller | 2002

Diane Lane stars as Connie, a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward (Richard Gere) has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul (Olivier Martinez), he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man in this erotic thriller from director Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal).

Cast: Diane Lane, Richard Gere

Director: Adrian Lyne

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Unknown

Thriller | 2011

Liam Neeson stars in this taut thriller as a man who regains consciousness after an auto accident only to discover that another man is impersonating him, and that no one - not even his wife (January Jones) - recognizes his identity as the real Dr. Martin Harris. Finding himself with an unexpected ally (Diane Kruger), Harris struggles to solve the mystery and hang onto his own wits, while also being stalked by anonymous killers.

Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Unstoppable

Thriller | 2010

It's a nail-biting race against time as an unmanned train carrying a load of lethal chemicals speeds out of control, and a conductor and engineer do everything in their power to keep it from derailing and killing tens of thousands of people. Denzel Washington leads the cast in Tony Scott's tough-minded action thriller, in which a terrible circumstance forces a couple of ordinary men to become extraordinary heroes.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine

Director: Tony Scott

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Usual Suspects, The

Thriller | 1995

When five unacquainted scalawags are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix with an underworld kingpin named Keyser Soze. Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin and Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey star in this intricately plotted, critically acclaimed thriller that won another Oscar for Best Screenplay.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin

Director: Bryan Singer

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Vanilla Sky

Thriller | 2001

David Aames (Tom Cruise) has it all: wealth, good looks and a gorgeous woman (Cameron Diaz) on his arm. But just when he's found true love with warmhearted Sofia (Penelope Cruz), his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident, and he loses everything... or does he? Director Cameron Crowe delivers a bizarre yet beautiful take on love, beauty and morality inspired by Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish-language film Open Your Eyes, also starring Cruz.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz

Director: Cameron Crowe

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Vantage Point

Thriller | 2008

Vantage Point, a cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork, what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a nest of snakes. It's all set a-boil within a few blocks of a town square in Spain where a US President is targeted for assassination.

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez

Director: Pete Travis

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Victim

Thriller | 1961

Dirk Bogarde risked his career to make this 1962 film about a lawyer who risks his career to stand up to blackmailers. Part crime thriller and part plea for tolerance, Victim uses the terror of a blackmailing ring to point out the injustice of Britain's antisodomy laws. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the police.

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price

Director: Basil Dearden

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Village, The

Thriller | 2004

M. Night Shyamalan assembles an all-star cast - including Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt - in this chilling tale about an isolated village whose residents face the constant threat of evil creatures. The villagers' lives are changed forever when one of them decides to venture beyond the town borders to see what's lurking in the surrounding woods and makes an unexpected discovery.

Cast: William Hurt, Judy Greer

Director: M Night Shyamalan

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Wait Until Dark

Thriller | 1967

Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Susy Hendrix, a blind woman terrorized by a criminal (Alan Arkin) who's after a stash of heroin that was planted in her apartment inside a doll without her knowledge. When the stalker isolates Hendrix in her apartment, she must find a way to defeat him in a thrilling, chilling battle of wits, relying on all of her senses - save her sight - to stay alive.

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin

Director: Terence Young

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Whirlpool

Thriller | 1949

Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney) is married to a successful psychoanalyst (Richard Conte), but all isn't hunky-dory when she's arrested for shoplifting. When a somewhat dubious hypnotist (Jose Ferrer), who's more interested in mind control than cures, saves Sutton from certain social scandal, the patient soon finds herself caught up in a murder hunt. Otto Preminger directs this psychological thriller with a first-rate musical score by David Raksin.

Cast: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte

Director: Otto Preminger

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Whistle Blower, The

Thriller | 1987

Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is a distinguished army veteran; his son Robert (Nigel Havers) is a talented linguist who translates wiretapped Russian phone conversations for the British government. But when his mysterious death is called an accident, Frank begins to investigate. What he finds leads him into the depths of the intelligence community and to sinister, covert dealings at the highest level - and that information could get him killed.

Cast: Michael Caine, James Fox

Director: Simon Langton

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Whistleblower, The

Thriller | 2010

Sent to Bosnia to train cops in the aftermath of that country's brutal civil war, American policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) uncovers evidence that U.N. peacekeepers are complicit in a flourishing sex-trafficking trade. But when she brings her allegations to light, she discovers that her foes are more powerful than the law. Based on a true story, this thriller from director Larysa Kondracki co-stars Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn.

Cast: Rachel Weisz, Benedict Cumberbatch

Director: Larysa Kondracki

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Whiteout

Thriller | 2009

The lone U.S. marshal at a research station in Antarctica, Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) stumbles upon the continent's first murder victim. With only three days left until the sun sets for six months, Carrie races to solve the complex mystery before darkness falls. Gabriel Macht, Alex O'Loughlin and Tom Skerritt co-star in this tense thriller based on a graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber.

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht

Director: Dominic Sena

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Wisdom

Thriller | 1987

John Wisdom wants to make good, but he'll never get the chance. Convicted of felony car theft, the earnest 23-year-old finds closed doors of opportunity. So he turns bank robber - with a twist. Armed with an Uzi and nervous bravado, he's a criminal for the people rather than against them, a modern-day Robin Hood rescuing debt-ridden folks from the system's grasp by destroying bank mortgage documents. And now he's wanted by the police in five states.

Cast: Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Charlie Sheen, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright

Director: Emilio Estevez

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Witness

Thriller | 1985

In director Peter Weir's tense thriller, cop John Book (Harrison Ford) goes undercover in an Amish community to protect a boy who witnessed a murder. Once inside, the faux-Amish Block must adjust to major culture shock while cautiously romancing the kid's mother (Kelly McGillis). Suspense and romance intermingle memorably in William Kelly's airtight script, a frequent model for budding screenwriters.

Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Woman In The Window, The

Thriller | 1944

Legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang directs this psychological thriller about an unassuming college professor (Edward G. Robinson) who becomes involved with a beautiful model (Joan Bennett) and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, deception and murder. A masterful storyteller, Lang is in top form as he weaves this spellbinding noir, replete with stunning cinematography, sublime editing and pitch-perfect direction.

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett

Director: Fritz Lang

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Wrong Man, The

Thriller | 1956

Alfred Hitchcock uses a real-life story as inspiration for this thriller. Henry Fonda stars as a down-on-his-luck musician wrongfully branded a criminal when he tries to convert his wife's (Vera Miles) life insurance policy into cash to pay for medical debts. Cops think he's an elusive robber who has finally landed in their clutches, and he must fight to the end to clear his name. But he finds a world that seems not to care about his plight.

Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Young And Innocent

Thriller | 1937

Robert Tisdall's (Derrick De Marney) affair with a married actress ends abruptly when he discovers her body on a beach. Circumstantial evidence leads to Tisdall's conviction for the murder, which he didn't commit. Rather than go to prison, he escapes to hunt the real killer with the help of the lovely Erica Burgoyne (Nova Pilbeam). George Curzon and John Longden co-star in this 1937 thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

Cast: Derrick DeMarney, Nova Pilbeam

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Thriller

Language: English

Zero Dark Thirty

Thriller | 2012

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Genre: Thriller

Language: English