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Drishya
Drishya (2014)
, 2h34
Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors V Ravichandaran, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Prabhu, Asha Sarath, Achyuth Kumar, Srinivasa Murthy

Rajendra Ponnappa is an orphan who had dropped out of school after his 4th grade. Now he is a businessman running a cable TV service in a rural area. He is married to Seetha and they have two daughters, Sindhu, a Plus Two student, and Shreya, a student of class sixth. His only interest apart from his family is watching films. He spends most of his time in front of the TV in his small office.
The Matrix
The Matrix (1999)
, 2h16
Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Philosophie, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sports films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Political films, Road movies, Kung fu films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Chase films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, Gloria Foster

An infamous hacker called Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) is cornered in an abandoned hotel by police. She easily overpowers and escapes from them, but a group of sinister black-suited Agents with superhuman abilities lead the police in a rooftop pursuit after her. Upon picking up a ringing phone in a telephone booth, she vanishes without a trace.
Une petite fille dans les tournesols, 1h10
Directed by Bernard Férié
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Claude Jade, Bruno Pradal, Bernard Rousselet, Monique Mélinand, Maud Rayer

Marelle part à la recherche de son mari Daniel, disparu alors qu'il était allé en pèlerinage dans sa maison d'enfance, dans le Gers. Elle retrouve la maison, s'y installe, rencontre un libraire sur les traces lui aussi de Daniel. En découvrant des photos et un journal intime, Marelle va trouver la vérité mais il lui restera à subir une dernière épreuve dans la caverne, à l'endroit même où Daniel, lié par un serment, est revenu mourir vingt après la mort de sa petite amie.
Higher Principle, 1h46
Directed by Jiří Krejčík
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Actors František Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Petr Kostka, Gustav Hilmar, Otomar Krejča, Václav Lohniský

Le Protecteur du Reich Heydrich meurt après un attentat à Prague. La loi martiale est instaurée. Trois lycéens sont arrêtés par les Allemands pour avoir commis une plaisanterie innocente et sont exécutés. Seul, un vieux professeur de latin condamne la terreur nazie et clame « En termes de principe moral supérieur, assassiner un tyran n'est pas un crime ! ». Par cet exemple, les autres professeurs qui s'apprêtaient à jurer fidélité à l'occupant se rétractent.
Inglourious Basterds, 2h33
Directed by Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Hitler, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Alternate history films
Actors Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl

In 1941, SS colonel Hans Landa, the "Jew Hunter", interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite as to the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the neighborhood. Under threat of continued harassment from the Germans, LaPadite reveals that the Dreyfus family is hidden under the floor. Landa orders SS soldiers to shoot through the floorboards and kill the family. All are killed except Shosanna, who escapes and flees through the field. Landa watches her go, deciding not to shoot her at the last second.
The Prestige, 2h10
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Rebecca Hall, Piper Perabo

The film begins with a magician (Michael Caine) performing a vanishing bird illusion for a young girl explaining that each trick has three parts: The Pledge, where the audience is presented with an ordinary object; The Turn, where the object is turned into something extraordinary; and The Prestige, where the object is brought back.
The Shining, 1h59
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about domestic violence, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Comedy horror films
Actors Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone

Jack Torrance arrives at the mountain isolated Overlook Hotel, 25 miles from the closest town, Sidewinder, Colorado, interviewing for the position of winter caretaker, planning to use the hotel's solitude to write. The hotel, built on the site of a Native American burial ground, becomes snowed-in during the winter; it is closed from October to May. Manager Stuart Ullman warns Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, developed cabin fever and killed his family and himself. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny Torrance, while brushing his teeth, has a terrifying premonition about the hotel, viewing a cascade of blood emerging from an elevator door, before falling in trance. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a doctor that Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony, and that Jack has given up drinking because he dislocated Danny's shoulder following a binge.
The Usual Suspects, 1h46
Directed by Bryan Singer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak

A deadly firefight and a fire aboard a ship docked in the San Pedro Bay leaves only two survivors: a Hungarian criminal named Arkos Kovaz hospitalized from severe burns, and a small-time con artist, Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), a pathetic cripple. Separately, FBI agent Jack Baer (Giancarlo Esposito) and Customs agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) arrive in San Pedro, lured by reports of a large cocaine shipment, and Kujan's personal vendetta against Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), a formerly corrupt police officer who has since given up his life of crime but who was supposedly involved in the massacre. While Baer is at the hospital attempting to get security for Kovaz, Kovaz begins yelling in Hungarian, and mentions the name Keyser Söze, which stops and stuns Baer. As Verbal later explains, Söze has a near mythical and vengeful reputation, having killed his own family when they were held hostage by a Hungarian gang and then killing all but one of the gang members before disappearing underground, keeping his true identity secret by insulating himself from his agents, who usually do not know for whom they are working.
Shakal Sandhya
Directed by Swapan Saha
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rachna Banerjee, Subhasish Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Chatterjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Bhaswar Chattopadhyay

This is a story about an innocent girl Anjali(Rachana Banerjee) she stayed with her father Binoy Roychowdhury (Bodhisattya Majumder )and her stepmother Madhobi (Sanghomitra Banerjee). Anjali was a poor girl. On the other side a thief, Joy(Prosenjit Chatterjee) stole a gold statue of a god with his assistant Bhoja (Subhasish Mukhopadhyay) they take shelter at Anjali's house. Joy stayed three days at Anjali's house and her fell in love with Anjali. Joy come to know about Anjali's past life from her diary. On the other side Madhobi blamed Anjali as a thief, Madhobi threw out Anjali from home. Joy helped Anjali to became a singer. One day Madhobi realised her fault and came to meet Anjali. Joy convinced every one of Anjali's family to stay with her . Another guy Sandip(Abhishek Chatterjee) liked Anjali .Anjali's family fixed her marriage with Sandip. Madhobi blamed Joy(Prosenjit Chatterjee) as a thief and threw him out from her house .Anjali tried to find out Joy(Prosenjit Chatterjee) . At the moment of a function Anjali told the whole story of her life to the audience and proposed to Joy and accepted him.
Memento
Memento (2000)
, 1h53
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Auto-justice
Actors Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Jorja Fox, Stephen Tobolowsky

The film starts with the Polaroid photograph of a dead man. As the sequence plays backwards the photo reverts to its undeveloped state, entering the camera before the man is shot in the head. This is followed by interspersed black-and-white and color sequences, with the black-and-white sequences taking place chronologically before the color sequences.
Shutter Island, 2h10
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow

In 1954, two U.S. Marshals - Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule - travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor as part of an investigation into the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando, incarcerated for drowning her three children. The sole clue is a note left by Solando, which reads: "The law of 4; who is 67?" Shortly after arrival, a storm prevents their return to the mainland for several days. Daniels finds the staff confrontational: the lead psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley, refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; Solando's doctor, Dr. Lester Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance, and they are barred from searching Ward C and told that the lighthouse on the island has already been searched, so there is no need to search it. When a patient is being interrogated by Daniels, with a subterfuge she sends Aule away for a few seconds and scribbles "RUN" in Daniels' notepad.
Taxi Driver, 1h49
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Erotic thriller films, Auto-justice
Actors Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd

Travis Bickle, an honorably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely and depressed man in New York City. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the boroughs of New York City. He also spends time in seedy porn theaters and keeps a diary. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer as a pretext to talk to her, and takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he takes her to see a Swedish sex education film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His attempts at reconciliation by sending flowers are rebuffed, so he berates her at the campaign office, before being kicked out by Tom.
There Will Be Blood, 2h38
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dillon Freasier, Russell Harvard

In 1898, Daniel Plainview, a prospector in New Mexico, mines a potentially precious ore vein from a pit mine hole. In the process of dynamiting the lode, he falls from a broken rung of the tunnel ladder and breaks his leg. He saves a silver sample, climbs out of the mine, and drags himself to the nearest assay office to record his and gets a Silver and Gold certificate claim. In 1902, he discovers oil near Los Angeles, California and establishes a small drilling company. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts the man's orphaned son. The boy, named H. W., becomes his nominal "business partner", allowing Daniel to paint himself to potential investors as "a family man".
Yojimbo
Yojimbo (1961)
, 1h50
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō

It is 1860, and the era of the Tokugawa shogunate is coming to a close. A rōnin, or masterless samurai, wanders into a small town divided by a gang war between two gangsters, Seibei and Ushitora. Ushitora used to be Seibei's right-hand man, until Seibei decided that his son Yoichiro would succeed him. Tazaemon, the silk merchant and mayor, backs Seibei, while Tokuemon the sake brewer is allied with Ushitora. Gonji, the owner of an inn, advises the stranger to leave while he can, but after sizing up the situation, the rōnin tells Gonji that the town would be better off with both sides dead, and that he intends to stay.