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Films with the genre "Thriller", sorted by revenue
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A Gun for Jennifer (1997)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films, Political films
Actors Deborah Twiss, Arthur J. Nascarella
Apres avoir tué son mari psychopathe en Ohio, Allison fuit vers New York. Elle est sauvée d'un viol par un groupe de féministes activistes.
The Terrorist (1994)
, 2h10Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Adel Imam, Salah Zulfikar
Adel Imam plays Brother Ali, an Islamic radical scheming against the government and Egyptian society. Hurt after escaping the scene of an assassination, he is taken in by a local modern Muslim family unaware of his radical ties. After living with the family and learning about tolerance and love, he has doubts about his views. He is killed by his former comrades after challenging their leader.
Lithivm (1998)
, 2h7Directed by David Flamholc
Genres Thriller
Actors Fredrik Dolk, Johan Widerberg, Björn Granath, Marika Lagercrantz
The bipolar Hanna gets an internship at a newspaper but is not satisfied with her duties that involve reading letters. She is pestered by her psychopathic on and off lover Martin and comes to believe that the divorced schizophrenic Dag is a serial killer.
Desire (2000)
, 1h37Directed by Colleen Murphy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Katja Riemann, Zachary Bennett, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alberta Watson, Graham Greene, Martin Donovan
The film stars Zachary Bennett as Francis Waterson, an aspiring concert pianist, and Katja Riemann as Halley Fischer, an elementary school teacher with whom Francis enters a romantic relationship.
The Girl by the Lake (2007)
Directed by Andrea Molaioli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Anna Bonaiuto, Omero Antonutti, Marco Baliani
Le corps d'une jeune femme assassinée est retrouvé sur la rive d'un lac d'une petite ville du Nord de l'Italie. Le commissaire Sanzio est chargé de mener l'enquête. Confronté à toute une série de personnages qui ont connu la victime, il va devoir démêler les fils qui reliaient affectivement les uns et les autres à cette belle fille, sportive, passionnée et pourtant porteuse d'un secret tragique.
All Cheerleaders Die (2001)
, 1h20Directed by Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jennifer Grant, Bonnie McKee
A group of high school football players get into an argument with their cheerleader girlfriends over the difficulty of their respective sports. The cheerleaders insist that it's difficult to form a human pyramid while the players insist that their boot camp is more strenuous. As a result the players decide to set up a camping weekend with the idea of putting the girls through football training. This turns out to be a bad idea, as one of the cheerleaders ends up beating one of the footballers in a scrimmage game, who then ends up severely beating her. The girls try to escape, only to fall off a cliff and die. Panicked, the players assume that the girls are either dead or dying, and run off in the hopes that nobody will discover what has happened. Unbeknownst to them, one of the girls has survived and later returns at a high school reunion to seek revenge. She summons the zombified remains of her dead friends and one by one, picks off the football players.
The Psychedelic Priest (1971)
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
John, a Christian priest, says goodbye to his profession and takes a destinationless drive. He gets acquainted with a female hitchhiker, Sunny, who soon falls in love with him. However, John does not feel the same towards her and leaves, returning to work at the church.
Directed by Sebastian Niemann
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Matthias Koeberlin, Naike Rivelli, Robinson Reichel, Pierre Semmler
Steffen Vogt est un archéologue allemand qui travaille sur un site en Israël. La découverte par hasard d'un squelette vient jeter un doute sur l'authenticité historique du site. En effet, le squelette semble vieux de plusieurs siècles, pourtant on trouve à ses côtés un support de notes en plastique et l'un de ses os a été renforcé par une prothèse en titane...
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Directed by Rod Holcomb
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors James Spader, Claire Forlani, Paul Giamatti, Alan Arkin, Kenneth Welsh, Maria del Mar
Flower & Snake (2004)
, 1h55Directed by Takashi Ishii
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Aya Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi, Hironobu Nomura, Kenichi Endō, Shigeo Kobayashi, Susumu Terajima
On the surface, Shizuko (Aya Sugimoto) is a beautiful and talented tango dancer married to a handsome and successful businessman Takayoshi Tōyama, but she is troubled by recurrent masochistic dreams and her inability to be sexually aroused by her husband. But her husband is heavily indebted to gangsters and yakuza boss Kanzō Morita also has a video supplied by Kawada, a disgruntled former employee, which implicates Tōyama in a bribery scheme. Morita tells Tōyama that his only recourse is his beautiful wife who is an obsession to his mentor, the politically powerful Ippei Tashiro. When Tōyama finds that Tashiro is 95 years old, he convinces himself that turning his wife over to him will not be a major problem. When he brings his wife to the supposed masked ball, however, she is kidnapped and made part of a private bondage show for the elderly yakuza chief and his twisted friends. Shizuko resists at first but submits when her female bodyguard Kyōko (who has also been kidnapped) is submitted to sexual torture and threatened with death. Shizuko is then subjected to a series of punishments including abundant rope bondage. When her husband repents and finally reaches her after paying the yakuza, her only response is "Do me!".
Horrors of War (2006)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Alternate history films, Disaster films
Actors Daniel Alan Kiely
Feeling the pressure from Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons giving rise to a type of warfare the world has never seen. Throughout the European theater of WWII, Lieutenant John Schmidt comes face to face with these "weapons." The Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S., precursor to the C.I.A.) initiates missions behind enemy lines to find the source of the weapons terrorizing U.S. soldiers fighting the Third Reich. Schmidt is joined by Captain Joe Russo and his group of war-hardened GIs who have experienced for themselves the all-too-real horrors of war in battle. Together, they must find and destroy Hitler's horde of nightmare weapons before his horrific vision can be fully realized.
Varg Veum - Fallen Angels (2008)
, 1h35Directed by Morten Tyldum
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Trond Espen Seim, Bjørn Floberg, Pia Tjelta, Iram Haq
Anita (2009)
, 1h44Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Norma Aleandro, Luis Luque, Mercedes Scápola
Anita (Alejandra Manzo) is a young girl with Down's Syndrome and lives with her mother (Norma Aleandro) in the Once neighborhood of Balvanera in Buenos Aires. Her life is changed forever in 1994 after the AMIA bombing. Anita doesn't understand what has happened; she only remembers that her mother left to handle some paperwork, the ground began to shake and she fell off the ladder she was not supposed to climb. Frightened by the noise, she runs from the area of the bombing, totally disoriented. In her odyssey she encounters several people that provide temporary assistance as she searches for her mother.
Daniel & Ana (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Michel Franco
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Marimar Vega, José María Torre, Verónica Langer
Ana (Marimar Vega) and Daniel (Darío Yazbek Bernal) are as close as siblings can get. Ana is excited about her upcoming wedding while Daniel is trying to figure out his own way in life. This is all shattered when the two are abducted in Mexico City and forced into having incestuous sex while on camera. The two then have to try to piece their lives back together the best they can, all while having the specter of the past events looming over them.