Thriller

  • Justine Triet – Anatomie D’une Chute AKA Anatomy Of A Fall (2023)

    Justine Triet2021-2030DramaFranceThriller

    For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel’s suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.

    Winner: Palme D’Or- 2023 Cannes Film FestivalRead More »

  • John Berry – Je suis un sentimental AKA Headlines of Destruction (1955)

    1951-1960Film NoirFranceJohn BerryThriller

    Synopsis:
    ‘Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney doesn’t believe his boss could possibly be a murderer. Subsequently he tries to prove the man’s innocence.
    Barney suspects Alice’s husband and gathers enough circumstantial evidence to make his point. But the widower’s lawyer can prove he didn’t do it either. Barney concedes he was wrong and commences a new investigation.’
    – WikipediaRead More »

  • Dejan Zecevic – Cetvrti covek aka The Fourth Man (2007)

    Dejan Zecevic2001-2010MysterySerbiaThriller

    A man awakens from a two-month-long coma. Total amnesia. A bullet fired point blank. He doesn’t remember anything. He’s told that he had a wife and a son. They’ve been killed. He’s revealed his past identity by the Colonel, who insists they are best friends. He’s a Major of the Military Security Agency. An inspector from the State Security Agency appears affirming that he has information on people responsible for the massacre of his family. The Major is discharged from the hospital. He tries to patch together a normal life but is confronted with emptiness and despair. His only chance of discovering his identity and the assassin of his family is to accept the game that the Inspector has set up for him with the Businessman, the Mafioso and the Politician. He agrees… Discovers that he was a war criminal… Realizes who took a shot at him… Finds out who killed his family… Discovers the Fourth Man!Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – La décade prodigieuse AKA Ten Days Wonder (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseClaude ChabrolFranceThriller

    Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father (Orson Welles). Welcomed by Welles’ young wife (Marlene Jobert), Piccoli soon finds a nest of rats beneath the bourgeoisie voluptuousness — a clan bound in a circle of illicit romance, blackmail, faked burglaries and, of course, murder.Read More »

  • Various – Thriller [Season 3] (1974)

    Various1971-1980ThrillerTVUnited Kingdom

    Thriller is an anthology series of single plays – some horrific, some darkly hilarious. Highly-popular and critically acclaimed in its time, the show attracted a high calibre of stars. With tales featuring foreign agents and time-bending serial killers (and all points in between!), Thriller set a new benchmark for quality horror in the 1970s.Read More »

  • Various – Thriller [Season 2] (1973)

    1971-1980ThrillerTVUnited KingdomVarious

    Thriller is an anthology series of single plays – some horrific, some darkly hilarious. Highly-popular and critically acclaimed in its time, the show attracted a high calibre of stars. With tales featuring foreign agents and time-bending serial killers (and all points in between!), Thriller set a new benchmark for quality horror in the 1970s.Read More »

  • Various – Thriller [Season 1] (1973)

    1971-1980ThrillerTVUnited KingdomVarious

    Thriller is an anthology series of single plays – some horrific, some darkly hilarious. Highly-popular and critically acclaimed in its time, the show attracted a high calibre of stars. With tales featuring foreign agents and time-bending serial killers (and all points in between!), Thriller set a new benchmark for quality horror in the 1970s.Read More »

  • Walter Hill – Southern Comfort (1981)

    USA1981-1990ActionThrillerWalter Hill

    Quote:
    A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.Read More »

  • Jan Kidawa-Blonski – Wirus AKA Virus (1996)

    1991-2000ActionJan Kidawa-BlonskiPolandThriller

    From the DVD cover:
    Or as they say in Poland, “Wirus”. This suspenseful story follows a computer virus that’s eating its way through Warsaw, and features Polish action stars Olaf Lubaszenko, Jan Englert, and Cezary Pazura. After the computer networks of a major bank and hospital are compromised, Michal, a young hacker, is hired to combat the virus before it completely cripples the institutions. As he digs deeper into the code, he comes to believe his brother, Stefan, might be the cyber terrorist. Michal’s crush on the foxy bank manager isn’t helping either.Read More »

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