Thriller

  • Norifumi Suzuki – Seijû gakuen AKA School of the Holy Beast (1974)

    Norifumi Suzuki1971-1980DramaJapanThriller
    Seijû gakuen (1974)
    Seijû gakuen (1974)

    Synopsis
    In order to investigate her mother’s strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns. – IMDbRead More »

  • Daoud Abdel Sayed – Ard al-Khof AKA Land of Fear (1999)

    1991-2000CrimeDaoud Abdel SayedEgyptThriller
    Ard al Khof (1999)
    Ard al Khof (1999)

    Quote:
    Director Daoud Abdul-Sayed builds his drama on the human being, as he introduces to us Ahmed Zaky in different human faces: He is Yehia, the police officer who is in a secret mission in the underworld of drug dealers and he is also Yehia Abu Daboura, the drug dealer who is living his daily life as an outlaw. These different and contradicting roles of one man helped in enriching the drama in this movie.In between, you will meet another major role: Adam, the mail man who used to get the messages or secret reports from Yehia, assuming that he is reporting to his higher officers. Adam is like the person in the middle between Yehia the police officer and Yehia the drug dealer. Yehia tells us during the movie that he/ or the drug dealer became a wealthy man. Read More »

  • Eser Zorlu – Sapık (1986)

    1981-1990Eser ZorluGialloThrillerTurkey

    Plot summary: A mysterious killer is murdering the guests at a ski hotel. A treacherous couple plot to takeover the hotel from its beautiful owner. Could a deaf mute girl hold the key to the mystery?Read More »

  • Mario Amendola – Trappola per sette spie AKA Trap for Seven Spies (1966)

    1961-1970ItalyMario AmendolaThriller

    After the end of World War II former SS Colonel Von Rittenau resides in a French castle with a group of neo-Nazis. Von Rittenau captures seven former Allied secret agents after he discovers their names in an old Gestapo archive and now wants his revenge on them.Read More »

  • Fernando Di Leo – La Mala ordina AKA Manhunt (1972)

    Fernando Di Leo1971-1980ActionItalyThriller

    When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he’s the wrong man. When the pimp’s wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the “manhunt”, he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.Read More »

  • Hans-Christian Schmid – 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint AKA 23: Nothing Is What It Seems (1998)

    Drama1991-2000GermanyHans-Christian SchmidThriller

    Quote:
    The movie’s plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his inheritance in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson’s “Illuminatus”, but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl’s rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking – he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.Read More »

  • Rodrigo Sorogoyen – As Bestas AKA The Beasts (2022)

    Rodrigo Sorogoyen2021-2030SpainThriller

    Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (MOTHER, THE REALM) made his Cannes debut with this riveting rural thriller in which issues of class, modernity and masculinity erupt into violence. Well-to-do French couple Antoine (Denis Ménochet, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) and Olga (Marina Foïs, POLISSE) are happily settled into their new life in a quaint Galician village, farming the land and rehabbing old houses. But their bucolic existence is threatened when new wind turbines are proposed, promising a huge payout for the struggling locals but a disaster for the traditional life Antoine and Olga have been cultivating. Voting against the project, they make enemies of brothers Xan (Luis Zahera, THE REALM) and Lorenzo (newcomer Diego Anido) as long-simmering tensions reach a boiling point.Read More »

  • Justine Triet – Anatomie D’une Chute AKA Anatomy Of A Fall (2023)

    Justine Triet2021-2030DramaFranceThriller

    For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel’s suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.

    Winner: Palme D’Or- 2023 Cannes Film FestivalRead More »

  • John Berry – Je suis un sentimental AKA Headlines of Destruction (1955)

    1951-1960Film NoirFranceJohn BerryThriller

    Synopsis:
    ‘Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney doesn’t believe his boss could possibly be a murderer. Subsequently he tries to prove the man’s innocence.
    Barney suspects Alice’s husband and gathers enough circumstantial evidence to make his point. But the widower’s lawyer can prove he didn’t do it either. Barney concedes he was wrong and commences a new investigation.’
    – WikipediaRead More »

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