Thriller

  • Steve De Jarnatt – Miracle Mile (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Steve De JarnattThrillerUSA

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    When Harry (Anthony Edwards, Zodiac, ER) meets Julie (Mare Winningham, Turner & Hooch) at the La Brea Tar Pits, it’s love at first sight. But when Harry’s alarm clock fails to go off, he misses their scheduled date by several hours. Alone on a street corner at four in the morning, he answers a ringing pay phone and picks up a garbled message that all-out nuclear war is set to begin in an hour’s time. With the clock ticking and the city spiralling into chaos, can Harry somehow track down Julie and get them both to safety before Armageddon?Read More »

  • Ralph Thomas – The Clouded Yellow (1950)

    Drama1941-1950Ralph ThomasThrillerUnited Kingdom

    The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war, Sommers takes a low-profile job cataloguing butterfly specimens. While thus employed, he make the acquaintance of Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons), a curious young lady who seems to be hiding something. Indeed she is, as Sommers discovers when Sophie is brought up on murder charges. Championing her cause, Sommers helps Sophie escape, prompting Scotland Yard to put another ex-secret agent on the couple’s trail. The chase extends from London to Liverpool, culminating in a tangled web of murder and madness. The Clouded Yellow was the first independent production supervised by Betty E. Box.Read More »

  • Chloe Okuno – Watcher (2022)

    2021-2030Chloe OkunoHorrorThrillerUSAWomen Make Horror

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    A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from the apartment building across the street may be a local serial killer decapitating women.Read More »

  • Philippe Labro – L’héritier AKA The Inheritor (1973)

    1971-1980FrancePhilippe LabroThriller

    When his father, a wealthy industrialist, is killed in aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell returns to France to take up the reins of the empire he has inherited. As a prostitute attempts to frame him for drug smuggling, Bart begins to suspect is father may have been murdered. His investigation uncovers a complex web of political intrigue, in which his own family and his stepfather are heavily implicated…Read More »

  • Don Siegel – Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

    1971-1980CrimeDon SiegelThrillerUSA

    The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and “Birdman” Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates who were never heard of again.Read More »

  • Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz – The Lodge (2019)

    2011-2020HorrorSeverin FialaThrillerUSAVeronika Franz

    A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.Read More »

  • Édouard Molinaro – Peau d’espion (1967) (HD)

    1961-1970Édouard MolinaroFranceThriller

    Synopsis :
    Charles Beaulieu, who served as an Army officer during the Algerian War, has become a novelist. Unfortunately for a playboy who lives in a big way like him, his books sell poorly. His need for money makes him accept an offer by Major Rhome, his former superior in Algeria, now one of the heads of the French counter-espionage agency. Charles’ mission will consist in preventing the defection of laser specialist Henri Banck’s defection to Red China…
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  • Léonard Keigel – La dame de pique AKA The Queen of Spades (1965)

    1961-1970ArthouseFranceLéonard KeigelThriller

    A countess married to Russia’s envoy to the court of Louis XVI is a gambling addict and doesn’t seem to mind that she loses nightly at the card table.Until a mysterious count entrusts her with a dangerous secret.Read More »

  • Emilio Fernández – Erótica (1979)

    1971-1980DramaEmilio FernándezMexicoThriller

    Synopsis
    Two man commit a robbery. One is caught and the other runaway. He ends his escape in a lonely and deserted beach when he meets a beautiful woman named Erotica. They both start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other conman escape from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.
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