Category: Thriller

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2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller

Divergent (2014)

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci-fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action-thriller scenario...

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2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller

3 Days to Kill (2014)

Ethan Runner (Costner) is dying of terminal brain cancer, diagnosed with mere months left to live. His work in the CIA is officially over, as he tends to get his affairs in order, which includes...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Action Jackson (1988)

Carl Weathers stars as Harvard-educated Detroit cop Jericho “Action” Jackson, who earned his reputation for crossing the line in roughhousing perps.  The police captain (Bill Duke) demotes Jackson from lieutenant to desk-jockey sergeant no...

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

David Lowery writes and directs this Badlands-esque, lyrically melancholy, Western-tinged, Texas-based drama about outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), a convicted felon who makes his way out of prison to try to reconnect with Ruth Guthrie (Mara),...

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1940s / Drama / Thriller

Key Largo (1948)

Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon) stars as retired Army Major Frank McCloud, a drifter who has traveled to Key Largo in southern Florida for a new life path and stops on the way...

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1950s / Mystery / Thriller

Stage Fright (1950)

Stage Fright is generally a forgotten film in the filmography of Alfred Hitchcock, mostly only of interest these days to fans of the Master, and, to a lesser extent, for the involvement of Marlene Dietrich. ...

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2010s / Comedy / Thriller

The Family (2013)

Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook, Limitless) stars as Fred Blake (formerly a mob boss named Giovanni Manzoni), who, along with his wife Maggie (Pfeiffer, Dark Shadows) and two teenage children, Belle (Agron, I Am Number Four) and Warren (D’Leo, Cop Out),...

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2010s / Comedy / Thriller

We’re the Millers (2013)

Jason Sudeikis (Epic, Horrible Bosses) stars as a life-long slacker named David, a two-bit pot dealer who gets into a tangle with a group of nasty thugs that sees his stash of $43,000 worth weed...

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

A Hijacking (2012)

A Hijacking is a fictional drama that is based on incidents that occurred in 2007-08, which Somali pirates took over shipping freighters in the open seas for a ransom of large sums of money...