Thriller

  • Jacques Rouffio – Le Sucre AKA The Sugar (1978)

    1971-1980FranceJacques RouffioPoliticsThriller

    One influent person make the curves of the sugar price rocket up artificially on the stock market whereas on the other side of the power another person losses all his money when the market crash down after somebody advised him to invest on sugar.Read More »

  • Anatoliy Vasilyev – Saiylyk AKA Summer House (1992)

    1991-2000Anatoliy VasilyevMysteryRussiaThriller

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    The recent commercial and critical flourishing of Sakha cinema – within the Republic, across Russia, and on the global stage – has been remarkable. But no film culture emerges ex nihilo. There are always predecessors, inheritances, and vocabularies from which to build. In purely filmmaking terms, the origins of today’s “Sakhawood” lie in Soviet cinema history as well as in the early pioneers of the post-communist Republic; on a deeper cultural level, they derive from the shared visual and spiritual language of the people themselves. As their broad acclaim demonstrates, the recent wave of films have a universal appeal. But they also stand as proof of the vitality and creativity of a very particular worldview. All of this is encapsulated in Anatoly Vasiliev’s striking and (until now) rarely seen Summer House.Read More »

  • Patrick Jamain – L’affaire Crazy Capo aka The Crazy Capo Affair (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeFrancePatrick JamainThriller

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    Jean Diserens has a double life: he is both a real estate developer and a drug dealer. He is looking for new ways to make money. But his superior, Crazy Capo, does not see things the same way.Read More »

  • Robert Scheerer – It Happened at Lakewood Manor AKA Ants! (1977)

    1971-1980Robert ScheererThrillerTVUSA

    Plot: During construction at the old, hard-pressed Lakewood Hotel, two workers stumble upon a swarm of ants in a closed section of the building. After discovering the unusually aggressive and dangerous ants, the workers attempt to get the warning out, but they are accidentally buried alive.
    Shortly after, the unscrupulous real estate magnate Anthony Fleming (Gerald Gordon) and his partner and mistress Gloria (Suzanne Somers) arrive at the hotel, there to haggle with the elderly proprietor, Ethel Adams (Myrna Loy), and her daughter Valerie (Lynda Day George) as they pursue plans to convert Lakewood into a casino.Read More »

  • Katrin Gebbe – Pelikanblut AKA Pelican Blood (2019)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyKatrin GebbeThriller

    A woman who trains police horses adopts her second child, a severely traumatised 5-year-old girl. When the girl shows violent and anti-social behaviour, her new mother becomes determined to help her.Read More »

  • David Lowell Rich – Berlin Affair (1970)

    David Lowell Rich1961-1970DramaThrillerUSA

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    Spy suspense drama set in 1960’s Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.Read More »

  • Oliver Stone – JFK (1991)

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    New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there’s more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.Read More »

  • Joseph Ruben – The Stepfather (1987)

    1981-1990HorrorJoseph RubenThrillerUnited Kingdom

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    Terry O’Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We’d tell you O’Quinn’s character name, but he has so many. You see, O’Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is blissful — at least, until O’Quinn’s new wife and kids fail to measure up to his notions of perfection. Then he kills them en masse, and moves on to his next victims. Shelley Hack and Jill Schoelen co-star as O’Quinn’s latest wife and stepdaughter, who prove to be yet another disappointment to him. An adroit witches’ blend of Ozzie & Harriet and Psycho, The Stepfather was scripted by suspense veteran Donald E. Westlake. A lesser sequel, Stepfather 2, followed in 1989.Read More »

  • Ken Loach – Route Irish (2010)

    Drama2001-2010Ken LoachThrillerUnited Kingdom

    From: artificial-eye.com
    Fergus (Mark Womack) returns to his native Liverpool for the funeral of his childhood friend Frankie (John Bishop), a fellow private security contractor who has been killed on ‘Route Irish’, the deadly and now infamous stretch of road between Baghdad airport and the Green Zone.
    Refusing to accept the official account of his best friend’s death, Fergus launches his own in-vestigation, fuelled by the discovery of a cell phone on which Frankie had recorded the shooting of an innocent Iraqi family just days before his own death.
    As his investigation ramps up – via frequent skype conversations with former security colleagues in Iraq and his interrogation of security firm officials in the UK – Fergus soon draws the heat of those he is investigating and a once dirty foreign war is transferred to the streets of Liverpool and pursued on home turf.Read More »

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