Posts Tagged ‘psychological-thriller’

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

It (1990)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Anderson, Harry | Christopher, Dennis | Masur, Richard | O'Toole, Annette | Reid, Tim | Ritter, John | Thomas, Richard | Curry, Tim | Brandis, Jonathan | Crane, Brandon | Faraizl, Adam | Green, Seth | Heller, Ben | Perkins, Emily | Taylor, Marlon
Directors: Wallace, Tommy Lee
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as “It”. The only victims of “It” are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, “It” wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like “It” doesn’t happen. Ironically they know about “It”, but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat “It” as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that “It” has come back, he reunites what’s left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and “It” is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat “It” and cure Derry of “The Derry Disease”.

Enough (2002)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

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.

Cape Fear (1991)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Nolte, Nick | Lange, Jessica | Lewis, Juliette | Baker, Joe Don | Mitchum, Robert | Peck, Gregory | Balsam, Martin | Douglas, Illeana | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Montero, Zully | Henne, Craig | Burton, Forest | Poe IV, Edgar Allan | Ball, Rod
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Sweeney Todd (2006)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Banzaru, Radu | Bradley, David | Butuc, Zoltan | Currier, Paul | Foxxe, David | Frost, Roger | Gottwald, Ingo | Hardy, Tom | Micu, Radu Andrei | O'Donnell, Anthony | Spahiu, Gabriel | Walker, Ben | Warner, David | Winstone, Ray | Davis, Essie
Directors: Moore, Dave
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A BBC adaptation of the classic tale of the 18th century demon barber of Fleet Street, London, who cuts the throats of his unsuspecting clients in his shop.

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Christie, Julie | Sutherland, Donald | Mason, Hilary | Matania, Clelia | Massimo Serato | Scarpa, Renato | Trestini, Giorgio | Trieste, Leopoldo | Tree, David | Rye, Ann | Salter, Nicholas | Williams, Sharon | Cattaneo, Bruno | Poerio, Adelina
Directors: Roeg, Nicolas
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Pacific Heights (1990)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Modine, Matthew | Keaton, Michael | Mako | McCarthy, Nobu | Metcalf, Laurie | Lumbly, Carl | Harewood, Dorian | Bercovici, Luca | Hedren, Tippi | McCarthy, Sheila | Boyd, Guy | Hardin, Jerry | Hedaya, Dan | Staley, James
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Meyer, Dina | Glover, Danny | Leigh Whannell | Leung, Ken | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.