Movies in the Thriller/Drama genre
Watching The Debt, I was reminded of how entertaining a well-executed Cold War thriller can be. Although elements of this movie, based on the 2007 Israeli film Ha-Hov, have a kinship to Steven Spielberg's Munich, the overall thrust is more in line ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: John Madden
Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds, ...
Wim Wenders' The End of Violence offers the same type of experience one could expect from sitting through a David Lynch film with a reasonably-coherent narrative (unlike, for example, Lost Highway). Arguably Wenders' most disjointed film to date, ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bill Pullman, Peter Horton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, ...
Several years ago, I recall reading an interview with British novelist P.D. James (the author of the Adam Dalgliesh mystery series) in which she was asked why it took her an average of three to four years to write a new book when other writers work...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-07-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, ...
With a title like Faster, it has to be a balls-to-the-walls action flick, right? Although that's how George Tillman Jr.'s feature is being marketed, that's not what it is. Faster is a revenge thriller that's more interested in delving into the da...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-11-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, ...
Perhaps the most curious and counterproductive aspect of The Fifth Estate, the so-called "Wikileaks movie," is the decision by director Bill Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer to establish the film as a thriller. The material covered in the produc...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Capaldi, Anthony Mackie, ...
Five Minutes of Heaven is about consequences - the unintended consequences of an action that can have repercussions years or decades after an event. This material, which forms the mother lode of Five Minutes of Heaven's substance, is powerful and c...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca
Freedomland is one of an increasingly endangered species: the adult movie that's about something. By "something," I mean a serious issue - the kind of thing films shy away from for fear of alienating viewers. Underneath the trappings of a police ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Joe Roth
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, ...
A modern crime thriller with noir inflections, Galveston operates in the seedy underbelly of the American South. Hitman Roy Cady (Ben Foster), struggling with a recognition with his own mortality, recognizes that he hasn’t lived a good life....
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-19
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Melanie Laurent
Cast: Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Lili Reinhart, ...
Combine the talents of director Robert Altman and actors Kenneth Branagh and Robert Duvall, and you have the apparent recipe for a motion picture worth waiting for. But, although The Gingerbread Man is a finely-tuned example of mainstream entertai...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-01-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., ...
Gone Baby Gone is powerful stuff - a movie that derives its plot twists from moral conundrums rather than from narrative sleight of hand. The best mystery novels are the ones that use the genre as a stepping-off point for developing characters and...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Casey Affleck, Madeline O'Brien, Titus Welliver, ...