Posts Tagged ‘hitchcockian’

Forgotten, The (2004)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Kovaleski, Christopher | Pleszewicz, Matthew | Edwards, Anthony | Hecht, Jessica | Roache, Linus | Sinise, Gary | West, Dominic | Cooper, Katie | Nicholson, Scott | Morrison, P.J. | Wisdom, Robert | Kang, Tim | Faughnan, Kathryn | Woodard, Alfre
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son’s friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son’s existence and her sanity.

Frantic (1988)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Buckley, Betty | Soumare, Djiby | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Virton, Dominique | Klein, Gérard | D'Audeville, Stéphane | Spielvogel, Laurent | Alain Doutey | Ciron, Jacques | Leibovici, Roch | Vincent, Louise | Melennec, Patrice | Jaroszewicz, Ella | Lagneau, Joëlle
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Ford plays an American doctor whose wife (Betty Buckley) suddenly vanishes while the couple is visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately - and relunctantly - he must try a defaint, mysterious waif (Emmanuelle Seigner) who knows more than she tells about the woman’s kidnappers.

Others, The (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Flanagan, Fionnula | Eccleston, Christopher | Alakina Mann | Bentley, James | Sykes, Eric | Elaine Cassidy | Asherson, Renée | Reid, Gordon | Allen, Keith | Fairley, Michelle | Vince, Alexander | López, Ricardo | Grilo, Aldo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Romijn, Rebecca | Banderas, Antonio | Coyote, Peter | Ebouaney, Eriq | Edouard Montoute | Rasmussen, Rie | Frémont, Thierry | Henry, Gregg | Curzon, Fiona | Milgram, Daniel | Minéo, Jean-Marc | Chatel, Jean | Petit, Stéphane | Follet, Olivier | Eva Darlan
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Blur (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Xuereb, Salvator | Sorvino, Michael | Carter, Wendy | Kolesarova, Jana | Rayburn, Nicole | Barba, Caroline | Baron, Joanne | Hodges, David | Kneeream, David | McCullough, Mark | Sanchez, Ivan | Sorvino, Bill | Velez, Victor | Kohler, Larissa | Phillips, Elyssa
Directors: Briscoe, Nick
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Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. Adrian grows to suspect that a mysterious neighbor is the phantom who means to harm his wife. Compounding the danger, a masquerade party planned for that evening allows unwanted guests to mingle unnoticed. As his premonitions begin to come true, Adrian races to interpret his visions while there is still time to cheat fate.

Derailed (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cassel, Vincent | Owen, Clive | Aniston, Jennifer | Timlin, Addison | George, Melissa | Bee, Sandra | RZA | Armstrong, William | Conti, Tom | Blake, Rachel | Leaf, Richard | Xzibit | McCord, Catherine | O'Hare, Denis | Chapman, Georgina
Directors: Håfström, Mikael
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Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands their daughter’s illness, and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to an adulterous rendezvous in an hotel. But no sooner have they torn each others’ clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda.Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles is reluctant to go to the Police and soon finds himself powerless to resist the every demand of the thief.

Murder by Numbers (2002)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Chaplin, Ben | Gosling, Ryan | Pitt, Michael | Bruckner, Agnes | Penn, Chris | Call, R.D. | Verica, Tom | Brenn, Janni | Vickery, John | Canavan, Michael | Carpenter, Krista | Matarazzo, Neal | Barnes, Adilah | Jansen, Jim
Directors: Schroeder, Barbet
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Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather (’Sandra Bullock’ (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (’Ben Chaplin’ (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men (’Ryan Gosling (I)’ (qv) and ‘Michael Pitt (II)’ (qv)) in an ingenious battle of wits as they try to solve a murder case.

Charade (1963)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Cary | Hepburn, Audrey | Matthau, Walter | Coburn, James | Kennedy, George | Minot, Dominique | Glass, Ned | Marin, Jacques | Bonifas, Paul | Chelimsky, Thomas | Aslan, Grégoire | Bernier, Marcel | Delfosse, Raoul | Drake, Colin
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband’s former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.

Reindeer Games (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Sinise, Gary | Theron, Charlize | Farina, Dennis | Frain, James | Logue, Donal | Trejo, Danny | Hayes, Isaac | Tootoosis, Gordon | Stubblefield, Dana | Williams III, Clarence | Acheson, Mark | Heaton, Tom | Sunczyk, Michael | Arthurs, Douglas
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick’s romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate. When Nick is killed during a prison riot, Rudy decides to assume Nick’s identity upon release from prison and meet up with the unknown woman. Burdened with a base knowledge of Nick’s Indian casino employment past, Rudy finds himself in too deep with Ashley’s brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and is violently forced to cooperate with a casino robbery that Gabriel and his gang have been planning with Nick in mind.

Ring, The (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Henderson, Martin | Dorfman, David | Cox, Brian | Alexander, Jane | Frost, Lindsay | Tamblyn, Amber | Bella, Rachael | Chase, Daveigh | Cochran, Shannon | Thigpen, Sandra | Lineback, Richard | Barrese, Sasha | Hall, Tess | Brody, Adam
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son’s and her own life.