Category: Thriller

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2010s / Action / Thriller

Haywire (2011)

Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Thirteen, Ocean’s Twelve) directs, giving a starring role to MMA fighter and former participant on “American Gladiator” Gina Carano, a novice actress with an intense physical presence and prowess, this retro-vibed thriller...

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2010s / Mystery / Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Daniel Craig stars as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who ends up losing a major and very public libel lawsuit, not because he wasn’t right, but because he lacked the evidence to prevail.  His reputation...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Assassination (1987)

Charles Bronson (Love and Bullets, Once Upon a Time in the West) stars as Jay ‘Killy’ Killion, the chief Secret Service agent charged with the protection of the new First Lady of the United...

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1940s / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller

Saboteur (1942)

Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder, Kings Row) stars as Barry Kane, a worker at a military aircraft production plant who ends up taking the rap mistakenly for the murder of his best friend/coworker...

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2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller

Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...

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2000s / Drama / Mystery

Mystic River (2003)

Clint Eastwood (Blood Work, Space Cowboys) directs the Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, Payback) adaptation of the popular Dennis Lehane novel of the same name revolving around the build-up of mystery surrounding the assault and apparent...

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1980s / Horror / Thriller

Cujo (1983)

Cujo is a simple story, adapted from the 1981 Stephen King novel of the same name, about a St. Bernard who becomes a bloodthirsty monster once he goes rabid following a bite from a bat. ...

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2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

The Adjustment Bureau is the latest Hollywood adaptation of a Philip K. Dick work, this time of one of his short stories, “Adjustment Team” (one presumes the title was changed to ‘Bureau’ to make the...

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1960s / Mystery / Thriller

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

Based on the first of the Elleston Trevor (written as Adam Hall) series of Quiller spy novels, The Quiller Memorandum (the book was called “The Berlin Memorandum” outside of the United States) mixes the heroics, romance...