Category: Thriller

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2010s / Drama / Science Fiction / Thriller

Ex Machina (2015)

Esteemed screenwriter Alex Garland (Dredd, Sunshine) writes and directs (his first) this fascinating science fiction drama, which plays like a futuristic chamber piece about reality, fantasy, truth, manipulation, deception, humanity and lack thereof.  To avoid...

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2010s / Horror / Thriller

Unfriended (2014)

A fairly interesting premise isn’t able to capitalize in this rather non-scary, non-thrilling entry in the low-budget horror genre that aims to bring things to the forefront of modern technology, and yet, at its...

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1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

True Lies (1994)

Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger, Last Action Hero) is a world class spy and also loving father and husband. He tells his family he’s really a boring computer salesman, all the while protecting his country in breathtakingly amazing...

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2010s / Action / Thriller

Furious 7 (2015)

The gang is back for, the poster says, “one last ride.”  If this is the last film for the main core players of the franchise (don’t bet on it; promotional interviews already are talking...

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2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller / War

’71 (2014)

At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn.  The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...

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2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Insurgent (2015)

The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone.  You want to spit...

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1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

Flatliners (1990)

Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole.  It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either.  It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

A Most Violent Year (2014)

Set in New York in 1981 (its most violent year, naturally), Abel Morales (Isaac, The Two Faces of January) is an up-and-coming fuel distributor looking to close the deal on some prime property to give...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

Dead Again (1991)

Dead Again is a tale of love in two eras, or one love that never dies, even though its participants are doomed.  Most of the film is set in the modern day, where a Los...

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2010s / Action / Thriller

John Wick (2014)

John Wick (Reeves) is a retired underworld assassin in NYC who re-enters the fray five years after leaving the life behind to marry his beloved Helen (Moynahan) when his prized classic 1969 Mustang is stolen and...