Category Archives: thriller

“False Positive,” Modern Day Rosemary’s Baby

Co-written by Ilana Glazer and John Lee, who also directs, False Positive follows Lucy, played by Ilana Glazer. She senses something not right about her fertility doctor, played by Pierce Brosnan, while she tries to get pregnant. She sets out to discover an unsettling truth.

The movie also stars Justin Theroux as Adrian, her husband, and Sophia Bush.

“The Forever Purge” Revealing Weird Revolutionary Breakthrough

Directed by Everardo Gout, The Forever Purge is a continuation of the satire Purge franchise. As usual, all the rules don’t exist, as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end in this movie.

As Blumhouse’s infamous terror franchise hurtles into innovative, fresh territory, members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with one annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. No one is safe.

Adela, played by Ana de la Reguera, and her husband Juan, played by Tenoch Huerta, live in Texas, where Juan works as a ranch hand for the wealthy Tucker family. Juan impresses the Tucker patriarch, Caleb, played by Will Patton, but that fuels the jealous anger of Caleb’s son, Dylan, played by Josh Lucas.

On the morning after The Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks the Tucker family—including Dylan’s wife, played by Cassidy Freeman, and his sister, played by Leven Rambin, forcing both families to band together. They fight back as the country spirals into chaos and the United States disintegrates around them.

“Stillwater” Challenges Father’s Unconditional Love

Directed by Tom McCarthy, Stillwater follows Bill, played by Matt Damon, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma. He travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, played by Abigail Breslin. She’s in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.

(L to R) Camille Cottin as “Virginie”, Matt Damon as “Bill” and Lilou Siauvaud as “Maya” in director Tom McCarthy’s STILLWATER, a Focus Features release. Credit Jessica Forde / Focus Features

Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his mission to clear his daughter of any alleged wrongdoing.

McCarthy won an Oscar for Spotlight. Stillwater seems just as powerful and suspenseful. With a father dealing with his estranged daughter imprisoned in Marseille for a murder she insists she did not commit, unemployed oil-rig worker Bill Baker, her father, visits deliver supplies and news. But when Allison presents her father with a new lead, he takes matters into his own hands and attempts to exonerate his daughter. Confronted with a foreign land he does not understand nor belong in, and Bill struggles in his mission until he meets a local woman and her young daughter who help him uncover the truth and, along the way, discover a life that he thought was beyond his grasp.

Actor Matt Damon (left) and director Tom McCarthy (right) on the set of STILLWATER, a Focus Features release. Credit Jessica Forde / Focus Features

“I began working on Stillwater about ten years ago. I set out with the intention to make a thriller set in a European port city. I was inspired by a number of Mediterranean Noir writers like Andrea Camilleri, Massimo Carlotto, and Jean-Claude Izzo, whose brilliant Marseille Trilogy led me to the French city. One visit to Marseille and I knew that I found my port. The layers and textures of the city were undeniably cinematic, and the confluence of cultures and the pace of the seaside metropolis felt like the perfect canvas for the film.”

As he combs the streets of Marseille, searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, Bill finds himself on an unexpected path, growing ever closer to Virginie and Maya. It’s a journey of self-discovery and liberation from a life that long seemed preordained. Yet when his need to prove his daughter’s innocence collides with his commitment to Virginie and Maya, with only tough choices left that not only threaten to destroy his new life but also his last shot at redemption.

Camille Cottin and Deanna Dunagan also star.

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Attractive, Mainstream Comedy “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”

Directed by Patrick Hughes, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard follows the world’s most lethal odd couple — bodyguard Michael Bryce, played by Ryan Reynolds, and hitman Darius Kincaid, played by Samuel L. Jackson. They return for another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Darius’s even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid, played by Salma Hayek, forces Bryce into action.

The movie is now streaming with nothing but entertainment with silly and hilarious scenes.

He’s driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees. The trio gets in over their heads in a global plot and soon finds that they all stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman, played by Antonio Banderas. Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman as a mystery man.

Salma Hayek as Sonia Kincaid in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.
Photo Credit: David Appleby

The cast is huge and includes Richard E. Grant, rank Grillo, Caroline Goodall, Rebecca Front, Gabriella Wright, Alice McMillan, Kristofer Kamiyasu, Tom Hopper and Blake Ritson.

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Those Who Wish Me Dead

Competitive “Those Who Wish Me Dead” Survival as Breakthrough Value

Directed by Taylor Sheridan, Those Who Wish Me Dead follows a teenage murder witness, played by Finn Little, who finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness. A survival expert played Angelina Jolie, tasked with protecting him — and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Other cast members include Jon Bernthal and Nicholas Hoult .

Above Suspicion

The Truth About “Above Suspicion” Innovative Look at FBI Operative

Directed by Phillip Noyce, Above Suspicion is about one of the most notorious crimes in FBI history. Based on a true story, this gritty crime-thriller follows Susan Smith, played by Emilia Clarke, a young woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal-mining town.

When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam, played by Jack Huston, recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her lousy luck may finally be changing.
But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.

The rest of the cast includes Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn, Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville.

“The Virtuoso” Immediately Danger and Suspense

The Virtuoso

Directed by Nick Stagliano, The Virtuoso brings danger, deception, and murder descend upon a sleepy country town when a professional assassin, played by Anson Mount, accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic mentor and boss, played by Anthony Hopkins.

He’s given only where and when, along with a cryptic clue, the methodical hitman must identify his mysterious mark from several targets, including a local sheriff, played by David Morse. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with an alluring woman, played by Abbie Cornish, at the town’s rustic diner threatens to derail his mission in this noir-style cloak-and-dagger thriller.

The rest of the cast includes Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake and Diora Baird.

“Dutch” Dominates the Streets

Directed by Preston Whitemore, Dutch is about Bernard James, Jr. The story follows Dutch as the player with any means necessary to dominate the streets and beyond. He uses any angle and any woman to turn an African drug Lord’s stolen heroin business into the East Coast’s most feared drug empire. He’s gained enemies along the way as the vow to take him down, including a Mafia heir, DA and conscience-stricken former friend.

But none of his enemies can stop what they can’t see. With his life on the line and the face of the enemy in everyone he sees, Dutch plays the game and scores a winning hand in the face of all that betrayed him.

But, as always, there is one woman Dutch can’t resist who will shake his ice-cold control to its core. And it will be the one betrayal he never sees coming that will put more than he ever imagined at risk.

The cast includes Lance Gross, Jeremy Meeks, Macy Gray, Gunna, Natasha Marc, Tyrin Turner, Melissa Williams, Malcolm Kelly and Kyle Massey.

Old

Thriller “Old” Timely Focus Unconditional Lifetime

Produced, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan from the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, Old follows a family on a tropical vacation.

They come across a secluded beach to spend a few hours relaxing. Chilling, mysterious phenomena occur where somehow they age rapidly — reducing their entire lives into a single day.

The international cast includes Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Emun Elliott, Kathleen Chalfant, and Thomasin McKenzie.

The Courier

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Written by Tom O’Connor and directed by Dominic Cooke, The Courier is a true-life spy thriller. The story of an unassuming British businessman, Greville Wynne, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative, played by Rachel Brosnahan, he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky, played by Merab Ninidze, to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The movie also stars Jessie Buckley.