A young man tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.
Year: 2005
Director: Stephen Kay
Cast: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless
Run time: 89 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Friday, February 28, 2014
Boogeyman
The Nines
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Year: 2007
Director: John August
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
New Nightmare
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
Year: 1994
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Jeff Davis
Run time: 112 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Unknown
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Year: 2006
Director: Simon Brand
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan
Run time: 85 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city’s undesirables.
Year: 1973
Director: Ted Post
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan
Run time: 124 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Body
A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.
Year: 2012
Director: Oriol Paulo
Cast: José Coronado, Hugo Silva, Belén Rueda
Run time: 108 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Striking Distance
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.
Year: 1993
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina
Run time: 102 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Branded
Set in a dystopian future where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man’s effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
Year: 2012
Director: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn
Cast: Ed Stoppard, Leelee Sobieski, Jeffrey Tambor
Run time: 106 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Child's Play 2
Chucky’s back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy.
Year: 1990
Director: John Lafia
Cast: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham
Run time: 84 mins.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Brainstorm
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Year: 2002
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett
Run time: 95 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Bubba Ho-Tep
Elvis and JFK, both alive and in nursing homes, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy.
Year: 2002
Director: Don Coscarelli
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce
Run time: 92 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Switchback
An FBI agent tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Year: 1997
Director: Jeb Stuart
Cast: Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin
Run time: 118 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Gaslight
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect, even if that means driving his wife insane.
Year: 1944
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Run time: 114 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Conspiracy Theory
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Year: 1997
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart
Run time: 135 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Before I Go to Sleep
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Year: 2014
Director: Rowan Joffe
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong
Run time: 92 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher returns to the headquarters of his old unit, only to find out he’s now accused of a 16-year-old homicide.
Year: ????
Director:
Cast:
Run time:
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Motel Life
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Year: 2012
Director: Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
Run time: 85 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough
Two young women will stop at nothing for one to gain a million inheritance of two priceless diamonds, while two detectives try to tho wart their plans, but find complications abound.
Year: 2005
Director: Jay Lowi
Cast: Serah D’Laine, Brad Johnson, Michael Mantell
Run time: 87 mins.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Beloved
Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
Year: 1998
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Yada Beener
Run time: 172 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Perfect Sisters
Tired of their mother’s alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
Year: 2014
Director: Stanley M. Brooks
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley, Mira Sorvino
Run time:
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Kaboom
A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students.
Year: 2010
Director: Gregg Araki
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka
Run time: 86 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Super Troopers 2
Year: ????
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Cast: Brian Cox, Marisa Coughlan, Jay Chandrasekhar
Run time:
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Gunman
An international spy must clear his name in order to save himself from the organization that he used to work for.
Year: 2014
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Idris Elba, Sean Penn, Javier Bardem
Run time:
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Neverwas
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist…
Year: 2005
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy
Run time: 103 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
A rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose.
Year: 2009
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw
Run time: 102 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Young Sherlock Holmes
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
Year: 1985
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward
Run time: 109 mins.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
To Catch a Thief
When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence.
Year: 1955
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
Run time: 106 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Year: 2010
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche
Run time: 107 mins.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Labor of Love
A widower embarks on a cross-country trip on foot to prove his love for his late wife.
Year: ????
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Ben Winchell, Ana Villafañe
Run time:
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Femme Fatale
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
Year: 2002
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote
Run time: 114 mins.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Monday, February 24, 2014
Anazapta
In 1348, with the horrors of the Black Death haunting Europe, English soldiers return home from war with a French nobleman as hostage…
Year: 2002
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Cast: Lena Headey, David La Haye, Jason Flemyng
Run time: 105 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rubinrot
Gwendolyn Shepherd is actually a very normal 16-year-old teen. What’s annoying is that her family definitely has a tad too many secrets…
Year: 2013
Director: Felix Fuchssteiner
Cast: Maria Ehrich, Jannis Niewöhner, Veronica Ferres
Run time: 122 mins.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Hidden (Caché)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Year: 2005
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cry_Wolf
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar – even when they’re telling the truth.
Year: 2005
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki
Run time: 90 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Perfect Stranger
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend’s killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Year: 2007
Director: James Foley
Cast: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
Run time: 109 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Sneakers
Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal.
Year: 1992
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier
Run time: 126 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
City by the Sea
Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murderer.
Year: 2002
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand
Run time: 108 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Sunday, February 23, 2014
The Wicker Man
A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Year: 1973
Director: Robin Hardy
Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Run time: 88 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Killing Me Softly
A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.
Year: 2002
Director: Kaige Chen
Cast: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone
Run time: 100 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
In the Cut
A New York writing professor, Frannie Avery (Ryan), has an erotic affair with a police detective (Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her neighborhood of a beautiful young woman…
Year: 2003
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Run time: 119 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Dressed to Kill
A mysterious, tall blonde woman, wearing dark sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist’s patients, and now she goes after the high-priced call girl who witnessed the murder.
Year: 1980
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
Run time: 105 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Faces in the Crowd
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with “face-blindness” after surviving a serial killer’s attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Year: 2011
Director: Julien Magnat
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon, David Atrakchi
Run time: 103 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Courage Under Fire
A US Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander’s worthiness for the Medal of Honor.
Year: 1996
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
A Tale of Two Sisters
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.
Year: 2003
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Cast: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim
Run time: 115 mins.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Basil, the Great Mouse Detective
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.
Year: 1986
Director: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Cast: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin
Run time: 74 mins.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Mystery
The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Year: 1946
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Run time: 114 mins.
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Bad Kids Go to Hell
On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview’s alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts?
Year: 2012
Director: Matthew Spradlin
Cast: Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Amanda Alch
Run time: 91 mins.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Year: 1997
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson
Run time: 155 mins.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Arlington Road
A college professor begins to suspect that his neighbour is a terrorist.
Year: 1999
Director: Mark Pellington
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack
Run time: 117 mins.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Year: 2004
Director: Kerry Conran
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie
Run time: 106 mins.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller