Thriller

  • Freddie Francis – Hysteria (1965)

    1961-1970Freddie FrancisHammer FilmsMysteryThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis by Jason Ankeny
    While visiting England, an American tourist (Robert Webber) is involved in an auto accident and suffers from amnesia. Upon his release from the hospital, he recuperates in a home paid for by a mysterious benefactor, where a dead body later appears in the shower.Read More »

  • Dan Curtis – House of Dark Shadows (1970)

    1961-1970Dan CurtisHorrorThrillerUSA

    Young David Collins has gone missing from his home on the Collinwood Estate. While others try to find him – he in reality playing a prank in just hiding – incidents occur not only on the estate but in town, where some have been victimized by some unknown creature who has left a pair of puncture wounds in their neck. Those that have not survived have literally been drained of their blood by the creature. Following the start of these incidents, a long lost relative of the Collins from England, Barnabas Collins, arrives at the estate, the rest of the family knowing he being who he says he is by the uncanny resemblance to his namesake, who lived approximately one century ago and whose portrait hangs in the main house.Read More »

  • Raoul Lévy – The Defector AKA L’espion (1966)

    1961-1970DramaFranceRaoul LévyThriller

    Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who’s recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower’s meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.Read More »

  • Dominik Moll – Seules les bêtes AKA Only the Animals (2019)

    2011-2020CrimeDominik MollFranceThriller

    Quote:
    A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don’t know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.Read More »

  • Jan Komasa – Sala samobójców. Hejter AKA The Hater (2020)

    Drama2011-2020Jan KomasaPolandThriller

    Quote:
    A young man searches for purpose in a net of hatred and violence that he tries to control.Read More »

  • Billy Wilder – Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

    1941-1950Billy WilderThrillerUSAWar

    Synopsis:
    It’s World War II, and British soldier John Bramble (Franchot Tone) is the lone survivor of a brutal battle in Egypt. After wandering through the desert, Bramble finds a remote hotel. There, in order to stay alive, he assumes a false identity. When the famed German general Rommel (Erich von Stroheim), aka the Desert Fox, arrives at the hotel, Bramble realizes he’s being taken for a German spy. Can this lowly British soldier turn the tide in the war and foil Germany’s plans in North Africa?Read More »

  • Jacques Deray – Le marginal AKA The Outsider (1983)

    1981-1990ActionFranceJacques DerayThriller

    Synopsis:
    Fed-up with the inefficiency of the Marseille police, Paris sends drug-enforcement specialist Philippe Jordan to Marseille. He’s supposed to assist the local law enforcement dismantle the drug networks, especially mobster Sauveur Mecacci’s network. So far, Mecacci has managed to elude capture or successful prosecution by local authorities. However, Inspector Philippe Jordan’s unorthodox law enforcement style may prove efficient against Mecacci if Jordan receives a free-hand green-light from the Marseille police bosses and if he survives the frequent attempts against his life, of course. Once at work, Inspector Philippe Jordan’s rough style creates mayhem in the city of Marseille and triggers numerous complaints from the Mayor’s Office, from outraged citizens and from the lawyers of a scared Mecacci who wants to see Jordan dead. These things, in turn, tell Jordan he’s on the right track.Read More »

  • Harald Reinl – Zimmer 13 AKA Room 13 (1964)

    1961-1970CrimeGermanyHarald ReinlThriller

    Synopsis:
    This crime thriller contains enough comedy and blood to interest almost any movie fan. Shady underworld thugs gather in a seedy Soho hotel in Room 13 to plan a train robbery. They plan to rendezvous in the mansion of a member of Parliament who is being blackmailed for his ties to the gang 20 years earlier. Simultaneously, a mysterious slasher is murdering women with a straight razor. Jonny Gray (Joachim Fuschberger) is the detective who is called on to solve the robbery and the murders.Read More »

  • Sergio Cabrera – Perder es cuestión de método AKA The Art of Losing (2004)

    2001-2010ColombiaCrimeSergio CabreraThriller

    Synopsis:
    A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist tries to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists.Read More »

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