Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.Read More »
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David Slade – Hard Candy (2005)
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Vincenzo Natali – Cypher (2002)
Vincenzo Natali2001-2010Sci-FiThrillerUSAAn 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.Read More »
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Steven Soderbergh – The Underneath (1995)
Steven Soderbergh1991-2000Film NoirThrillerUSAAmong my personal favorite neo-noir films, which I could easily watch over and over again.Read More »
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Xavier Legrand – Le successeur AKA The Successor (2023)
2021-2030DramaFranceThrillerXavier LegrandEllias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father’s weak heart.Read More »
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Simon Langton – Mother Love [Two-part version] (1989)
Simon Langton1981-1990DramaThrillerUnited KingdomHelena Vesey loves her son with a passion verging on the demonic. When he announces his engagement to Angela, it’s clear that she’s not losing a son, only her sanity. She’s soon dusting off her books on lethal poisons and begins a ruthless killing spree, elegantly disposing of anyone she sees as opposition.Read More »
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Kaizô Hayashi – The Code: Angou AKA The Code (2008)
Kaizô Hayashi2001-2010JapanMysteryThrillerFor sixty years, the group of detectives known as “Detective Office 5” have raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.Read More »
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Sonia Méndez – As Neves (2024)
2021-2030DramaSonia MéndezSpainThrillerAs Neves is a mountain village where everyone knows each other. The night of the Carnival, the teenagers of the village throw a party where they get high on mushrooms for the first time. The next day, they wake up to the village completely snowed in by a snowstorm and the news that Paula, one of the girls who went to the party the previous night, has disappeared. The village is getting cut off, the Internet is no longer working and it is urgent to find her. The investigation following Paula’s case will cause a deep change in the villagers’ lives and their relationship with the world.Read More »
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Malgorzata Szumowska – W imie… AKA In the name of… (2013)
Malgorzata Szumowska2011-2020DramaPolandQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerQuote:
Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioural problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets Łukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam’s self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.Read More » -
Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Chime (2024)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa2021-2030HorrorJapanThrillerThe life of a schoolteacher is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.Read More »