Category Archives: Thriller

Blackwoods

IMDB Rating: 2.60
857 votes

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Matt (Patrick Muldoon) is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an axe comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.
Actors
Matt SullivanPatrick Muldoon
Dawn/MollyKeegan Connor Tracy
JimWill Sanderson
Also posted in 2002, Drama | Comments (0)

Boarding Gate

IMDB Rating: 6.40
113 votes

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An Italian woman [Argento] who lives in London [and] has a passionate affair with a former financial big gun [Madsen]. She also had a second lover [a Leung], a contract killer who has to kill the big gun. Her second lover's wife [Yeoh] is behind the scenes, pulling the strings.
Actors
SandraAsia Argento
Miles RennbergMichael Madsen
Lester WangCarl Ng
Also posted in 2007, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Narc

IMDB Rating: 7.40
13051 votes

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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
Actors
Elvin DowdDan Leis
Det. Sgt. Nick TellisJason Patric
Walter DandridgeLloyd Adams
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Mother of Tears: The Third Mother

IMDB Rating: 6.90
202 votes

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The final installment of Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who "unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world."
Actors
Sarah MandyAsia Argento
Detective Enzo MarchiCristian Solimeno
Michael PierceAdam James
Also posted in 2007, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley

IMDB Rating: 5.80
42 votes

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When Julie Bottomley (Suranne Jones) discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to kill him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian (Dean Lennox Kelly) by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how ?Dead Clever? she?s been?
Actors
Ian BottomleyDean Lennox Kelly
Court ClerkAndy Darbyshire
JeanLesley Nicol
Also posted in 2007, Drama | Comments (0)

The Ninth Gate

IMDB Rating: 6.50
31067 votes

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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.
Actors
Dean CorsoJohnny Depp
Boris BalkanFrank Langella
Liana TelferLena Olin
Also posted in 1999, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

True Romance

IMDB Rating: 7.80
46902 votes

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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.
Actors
Clarence WorleyChristian Slater
Alabama WhitmanPatricia Arquette
Dick RitchieMichael Rapaport
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Videodrome

IMDB Rating: 7.20
11126 votes

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Max runs a TV channel, and is looking for new material to show...he discovers - Videodrome. His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for Videodrome, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot which uses Videodrome as its front.
Actors
Max RennJames Woods
Bianca O'BlivionSonja Smits
Nicki BrandDeborah Harry
Also posted in 1983, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Enough

IMDB Rating: 5.00
8184 votes

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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role.
Actors
Slim HillerJennifer Lopez
Mitch HillerBill Campbell
Gracie HillerTessa Allen
Also posted in 2002, Drama | Comments (0)

Impulse

IMDB Rating: 4.80
92 votes

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Acting on impulse, CLAIRE DENNISON, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
Actors
HerbieC. Ernst Harth
Japanese TranslatorTaku Kawai
Dr. Jonathan Dennison/Simon PhilipsAngus Macfadyen
Also posted in 2008, Mystery | Comments (0)
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