Posts Tagged ‘suspense’

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Fonda, Bridget | Karyo, Tchéky | Young, Ric | Ryan, Max | Kwouk, Burt | Laurence, Ashley | Raffaelli, Cyril | Azoulay, Didier | Forgeham, John | Barrett, Paul | Prince, Colin | Glo, Vincent | Wong, Vincent | Kentaro
Directors: Nahon, Chris
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard’s hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Arkin, Alan | Crenna, Richard | Zimbalist Jr., Efrem | Weston, Jack | Jones, Samantha | Herrod, Julie | Benson, Robby | Del Val, Jean | Morgan, Gary | O'Brien, Frank
Directors: Young, Terence
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After an airplane trip, a young woman asks Susie’s husband, Sam, to keep a doll for her to avoid spoiling the surprise of her daughter’s gift. But the real reason is to avoid her partner, Harry Roat, whom she hopes to cheat of the drugs hidden in the doll. Harry discovers her treachery, murders her and leaves the body in Susie’s apartment, where he has tracked Sam and the doll. He concocts an elaborate plan, involving Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, to get Susie, who recently lost her sight in a fire, to reveal the doll’s hiding place. They lure Sam away and take advantage of Susie’s blindness, posing as an old friend, a police detective, and a father-son pair of eccentrics. Susie eventually catches on and, with the help of her young neighbor, Gloria, shows everyone that she is indeed “a world-class blind lady.”

Don’t Say a Word (2001)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Bean, Sean | Murphy, Brittany | McCole Bartusiak, Skye | Torry, Guy | Esposito, Jennifer | Shawn Doyle | Argo, Victor | Goode, Conrad | Schulze, Paul | Reddick, Lance | Janssen, Famke | Platt, Oliver | Devine, Aidan | Campbell, Alex
Directors: Gary Fleder
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan’s daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.

Hard Candy (2005)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Patrick | Page, Ellen | Oh, Sandra | Rae, Odessa | John, Gilbert | Bright, Cori | Kraft, Erin
Directors: Slade, David
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For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with ‘Lensmaster319′, a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference. Hayley appears to flirt with Jeff, and Jeff generally restrains himself, even admitting that he must wait 4-years until he can be with her. But his reservations are apparently not enough to decline when Hayley all but invites herself over to his house. Once at the house, manipulation becomes the name of the game, and the pedophile seems to be on the non-traditional side of it.

In the Line of Fire (1993)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Malkovich, John | Russo, Rene | McDermott, Dylan | Cole, Gary | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Mahoney, John | Williams, Gregory Alan | Curley, Jim | Hughes, Sally | Kusatsu, Clyde | Hytner, Steve | Bell, Tobin | Schott, Bob | Riojas, Juan A.
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government — Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he’s more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President’s itinerary, while Horrigan’s boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan’s colleague Al D’Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary.

Panic Room (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Stewart, Kristen | Whitaker, Forest | Yoakam, Dwight | Leto, Jared | Bauchau, Patrick | Magnuson, Ann | Buchanan, Ian | Walker, Andrew Kevin | Schulze, Paul | Rodriguez, Mel | Conant, Richard | Simon, Paul | Thrash, Victor | Turner, Ken
Directors: Fincher, David
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a “panic room” which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room’s hotline to the police hasn’t been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn’t contain any sugar…

Die Hard (1988)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | VelJohnson, Reginald | Johnson, Reginald | Bedelia, Bonnie | Godunov, Alexander | Gleason, Paul | Atherton, William | White, De'voreaux | Bochner, Hart | Rickman, Alan | Hayden, Dennis | Gilyard Jr., Clarence | Doyon, Bruno | Wisniewski, Andreas | Shigeta, James | Davi, Robert
Directors: McTiernan, John
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New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages.

Tombstone (1993)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Kilmer, Val | Elliott, Sam | Paxton, Bill | Boothe, Powers | Biehn, Michael | Heston, Charlton | Priestley, Jason | Tenney, Jon | Lang, Stephen | Church, Thomas Haden | Delany, Dana | Malcomson, Paula | Collins, Lisa | Wheeler-Nicholson, Dana
Directors: Cosmatos, George P.
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Yelchin, Anton | Davis, Hope | Boorem, Mika | Morse, David | Tudyk, Alan | Bower, Tom | Weston, Celia | LeFevre, Adam | Rothhaar, Will | Reifsnyder, Timothy | O'Connell, Deirdre | Beaver, Terry | Blankenship, Joe T. | Fleisher, Brett
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Accidental Spy, The (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Chan, Jackie | Tsang, Eric | Hsu, Vivian | Kim, Min | Wu, Hsing-kuo | Cheung, Alfred | Jones, Anthony Rene | Simon, Glory | Allan, Bradley James | Cheung, Tat-Ming
Directors: Chan, Teddy
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This action movie unfolds with the story of Bei, a salesman at a workout equipment store, who harbors dreams of adventures. It all starts when on one normal dull day, Bei follows his instincts to trail two suspicious looking men into an alley. When he realizes that these men are robbing a jewelry store, he jumps into action to foil their plans. Soon after Bei meets Liu, a private investigator who convinces Bei that he may be the long-lost son of a rich Korean businessman. In no time, Bei is on his way to fulfill his dreams of adventure and fortune travelling to Korea and even exotic Turkey. As Bei is drawn deeper into the game of cat and mouse, he realizes he has become the key to locating a lung cancer virus. With an assortment of characters fighting him along the way, will Bei succeed in finding the virus himself?