Genre: Thriller
Thrillers run on tension and pace — danger, stakes, and a clock running down, pulling you forward to find out whether the worst comes true.
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Get Carter (1971)
1971 Mike Hodges crime film with Michael Caine as a London gangster avenging his brother in Newcastle. Cold and merciless. -
Savages (2012)
2012 Oliver Stone crime drama with Travolta, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek. California marijuana growers versus Mexican cartel. -
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
1976 John Sturges WWII thriller with Michael Caine as a German paratrooper colonel sent to kidnap Churchill from rural England. -
The Prestige (2006)
2006 Christopher Nolan period thriller with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival Victorian magicians destroying each other. -
King of New York (1990)
1990 Abel Ferrara crime film with Christopher Walken as drug lord Frank White redistributing wealth in 1980s New York. -
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
2016 Jon M. Chu sequel with the Horsemen blackmailed into a Macau heist. Daniel Radcliffe joins as tech billionaire. -
Now You See Me (2013)
2013 Louis Leterrier heist thriller. Four illusionists pull off bank robberies during stage shows. Mark Ruffalo investigates. -
New Rose Hotel (1998)
1998 Abel Ferrara sci-fi with Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe as corporate spies. Adapts William Gibson cyberpunk story. -
Ransom (1996)
1996 Ron Howard thriller with Mel Gibson as a wealthy father whose kidnapped son demands a different kind of response. Gary Sinise as kidnapper. -
Primal Fear (1996)
1996 Gregory Hoblit thriller with Richard Gere as a Chicago defense attorney and Edward Norton's breakthrough as an altar boy accused of murder.