The thriller genre often have many overlapping sub-genres.
These are fast paced with frequent action and skilled heroes who oftem must prevent more powerful and better-equipped villains from suceeding with their evil plans.
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A history of violence
Tom is the owner of a cafe in a typical American small town. Over night, he becomes the reluctant hero after he deals with two criminals trying to rob his cafe. The attention coming from this incident is something he doesn't want, and soon ghosts from his past start to haunt him. Viggo Mortensen playes Tom in this excellent thriller and Maria Bello playes his wife.
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Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond is about the hunt of a rare and very valuable diamond in the war struggeling country of Sierra Leone.
A fisherman and his family get ambushed by rebels and the family get shatered. The fisherman is forced to work in a diamond mine, where he discovers the valuable rock.
He hides the diamond, but the whole mining camp get attacked by the national army.
The fisherman gets trown in jail, and there he meets Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a white mercenary smuggl...
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Blue Velvet (1986) Review
A man finds a severed human ear in a field and with the help of the police detective's daughter they discover a sinister underworld.
Directed by:
David Lynch
Starring:
Isabella Rossellini
Kyle MacLachlan
Dennis Hopper
Laura Dern
Hope Lange
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Bug
Agnes, a waitress who lives in a motel in fear of her ex-husband who used to abuse her, starts to see the brighter side of life as she has a romance with Peter. But then the first bugs arrive. Bug is a psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems. The movie stars Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. and was directed by William Friedkin.
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Dirty Pretty Things
A movie by Stephen Freas about the London underground, where everything is for sale. Okwe is an illegal immigrant who works both as a taxidriver and a receptionist at a hotel. He met Senay there who works as a maid and is awaiting her greencard application. One day while working at the hotel, Okwe finds a human heart clogging one of the toilets. This leads him to uncover some dark truths about the hotel manager and the underground organ sales going on in London. Soon enough, both him and Senay a...
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Disturbia Review
When his father dies, Kale Brecht becomes moody and withdrawn.
After a run in with the law he gets a court-ordered sentence of house arrest.
The mother who works day and night to keep the family together get nothing but apathy in return.
When the walls begin to close in on Kale he becomes a voyeur and and start spying on his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer.
Is his suspicions correct, or only a product of cabin fever?
Director: D.J. ...
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Eastern Promises
Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families, meets an innocent midwife (Naomi Watts) who accidentally uncovers potential damaging information that could put an end to the criminal network.
Nikolai now need to make sure this information gets destroyed without hurting the young woman's life. This starts a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution.
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Inside Man
Three parties each have their own agenda in this thriller where it's up to the character played by Denzel Washington to figure out what the motives of his opponents are as well as find a solution to a hostage situation.
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Munich
Munich is a historic thriller from Steven Spielberg taking place in the time after the massacre of eleven members of the Israeli Olympic contenders during the Olympic Games in Munich 1972.
The story is about the secret Israeli group that was given the mission to find and revenge the terror act on the Palestine terrorist group that was called Black September. Eric Bana playes Troy, who is the Mossad agent in charge of finding the terror group and we get to see all the personal issues th...
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The Departed (2006)
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Two men from opposite sides of the law are working undercover within the Irish mafia and the Massachusetts State Police, but crime and violence boil when discoveries are made, and the moles discover the enemy's identity.
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The Last King of Scotland
A young Scottish doctor moves to Uganda to find adventure, fun and to give a helping hand in the 1970's. An encounter with the new leader, Idi Amin changes everything, and the doctor gets the see the dark side of Uganda.
Actors:
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney and Gillian Anderson
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The Prestige
A compelling story about two magicians who are constantly trying to top each other, something which leads to a deadly game. The magicians are played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, and the assistant is played by Scarlett Johansson. This is a movie you'll end up seing several times due to an magnificent story and a great ending.
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The Sentinel (2006)
Directed by Clark Johnson
A white house securite agent is having an affair with the "first lady" and have to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the U.S. President.
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The Usual Suspects
One of the top rated thrillers of all time, The Usual Suspects give us an intricate story with an amazing ending. 5 criminals get tangled into a desperate situation controlled by a mythical man called Keyser Soze. 27 men are found dead on a boat with only one surviver mumbling about Keyser Soze and $91 million worth of cocaine is missing. The police is fighting against time as any clues to who is behind all of this disappears.
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