Thriller

  • Jan Batory – Spotkanie ze szpiegiem AKA Rendezvous with a Spy (1964)

    1961-1970CrimeJan BatoryPolandThriller
    Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964)
    Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964)

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    On the Koszalin coast, secret agent Bernard is about to land information on the deployment of Polish missile bases.Read More »

  • C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi – Mami Wata (2023)

    2021-2030C.J. 'Fiery' ObasiDramaNigeriaThriller
    Mami Wata (2023)
    Mami Wata (2023)

    Plot: When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.Read More »

  • Don Siegel – The Beguiled (1971)

    Don Siegel1971-1980DramaThrillerUSA
    The Beguiled (1971)
    The Beguiled (1971)

    While imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.Read More »

  • Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)

    Sam H. Freeman2021-2030Ng Choon PingQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUnited Kingdom
    Femme (2023)
    Femme (2023)

    Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More »

  • Temur Babluani – Udzinarta mze AKA The Sun of the Sleepless (1992)

    1991-2000DramaGeorgiaTemur BabluaniThriller
    Udzinarta mze (1992)
    Udzinarta mze (1992)

    The director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – La rupture AKA The Breach (1970)

    Claude Chabrol1961-1970ArthouseFranceThriller
    La rupture (1970)
    La rupture (1970)

    Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene’s reputation and then her very life.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Juste avant la nuit aka Just Before Nightfall (1971)

    Claude Chabrol1971-1980FranceThriller
    Juste avant la nuit (1971)
    Juste avant la nuit (1971)

    Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.Read More »

  • Nicolas Winding Refn – Fear X (2003)

    Nicolas Winding Refn2001-2010ArthouseDenmarkThriller
    Fear X (2003)
    Fear X (2003)

    From The New york Times
    Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through “Fear X” like a toxic mist. The movie’s ominous mood is deepened by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm’s ambient background score, which haunts the movie with faraway groans and rattles.

    If “Fear X,” the American filmmaking debut of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, promises far more drama than it finally delivers, its glumness never abates. Whether contemplating the shabby cottages in a snow-swept Wisconsin suburb or scanning the flatlands of Montana, the camera, which stealthily follows the protagonist’s suspicious eyes wherever he looks, imagines danger crouching in every shadow.Read More »

  • Worth Keeter – Dogs of Hell AKA Rottweiler (1983)

    1981-1990HorrorThrillerUSAWorth Keeter
    Dogs of Hell (1983)
    Dogs of Hell (1983)

    A pack of Rottweilers, bred and trained by the U.S. military to kill humans, escape to ravage the peaceful mountain resort town of Lake Lure. It is up to the local sheriff to protect his small community.Read More »

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