Movies in the Thriller genre
As movie-goers, we expect different things from big-budget summer blockbusters than we do from "normal" films. Considerations of theme and character become secondary to action and mind- numbing excitement. The plot is expected to be very basic...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Mayhem)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Jan De Bont
Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, ...
To me, the idea of a sequel to The Fugitive always seemed like a bad idea. True, Sam Girard (Tommy Lee Jones) was a more interesting character than Richard Kimball (Harrison Ford), but could he carry a movie on his own? Sadly, we'll never really ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-03-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Kate Nelligan, LaTanya Richardson, ...
In their follow-up to the underrated Good Time, the Safdie Brothers (Benny and Josh) have shown that the some of the most forceful qualities evident in their previous film were more trademarks than one-off experiments. Uncut Gems, although ver...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Cast: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, ...
Death: it is the lone certainty in life (forget the bit about taxes). Despite that, when the end comes to a loved one, even if expected, it can be difficult to process and handle. The situation is even more dramatic in cases when a death occurs a...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-05-04
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
A naked woman wearing an owl mask. Sex orgies in buried tombs. Skinny-dipping shoot-outs. A serial killer of dogs. A topless woman with a talkative parrot. A girl with a balloon fetish. An aggressive skunk. Enough conspiracies and secret codes...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-04-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough Riki Lindhome, Callie Hernandez, ...
Welcome to film noir, Soderbergh-style. For his latest effort (and fourth feature), the talented director who made the dialogue-and-character-rich sex, lies, and videotape turns his attention to this talky update of 1949's Criss Cross. Focus...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliot, William Fichtner, ...
Underwater is all adrenaline and claustrophobia – a 95-minute non-stop excursion to the bottom of the sea where human beings are aliens and monstrous creatures haunt the depths. Director William Eubank (The Signal) understands that for a mov...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-01-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Director: William Eubank
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Jessica Henwick, Vincent Cassel, ...
Adrian Lyne must have a fascination for examining the ins and outs of marital infidelity. Unfaithful, Lyne's first outing since the controversial Lolita, follows in the distant wake of Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. In some ways, Unfaith...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-05-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, ...
The temptation is to think this: Just what we need - another PG-13 remake of an Asian horror film. These come along so frequently that they have become more like punch lines to bad jokes than serious cinematic endeavors. Not so fast, though. The U...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR/THRILLER
Director: The Guard Brothers
Cast: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, ...
Yes, Unknown is preposterous. That in and of itself is not a reason to avoid the movie. The problems lie in the way the absurdity is presented and the manner in which the screenplay resolves once the "truth" is revealed. Alfred Hitchcock rarely me...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-02-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, ...