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To Kill a Man (2014)
, 1h22Directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ariel Mateluna
A hard-working and poor Jorge and his family are terrorised by local criminal Kalule's clan. Jorge's teenage son boldly tries to stand up for his father, in result Kalule shoots the boy. Jorge and his wife, Martha, seek justice from the legal system but all their efforts goes to vain. As Kalule is released after his two years sentence in prison. Jorge becomes ready to defend his family.
To Kill a Man (2014)
, 1h19Directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Origin Chili
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ariel Mateluna
Jorge est un homme honnête qui travaille dur pour faire vivre sa famille. Une nuit, il se fait insulter par une bande de jeunes gens, menée par un ancien délinquant du quartier. Son fils se fait à son tour agresser. La crainte et l'angoisse envahissent peu à peu la famille dont le quotidien devient infernal.
This Gun for Hire (1942)
, 1h20Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Marc Lawrence, Tully Marshall
In wartime San Francisco, chemist and blackmailer Albert Baker (Frank Ferguson) is killed by hit man Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), who recovers a stolen chemical formula. Raven is double-crossed by his employer, Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), who pays him with marked bills and reports them to the Los Angeles Police Department as stolen from his company, Nitro Chemical. Raven learns of the set up and decides to get revenge. LAPD detective lieutenant Michael Crane (Robert Preston), who is vacationing in San Francisco to visit his girlfriend, nightclub singer Ellen Graham (Veronica Lake), is immediately assigned the case. He goes after Raven, but the assassin eludes him.
The Killer Elite (1975)
, 1h51Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Gig Young
Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the beginning of the film, Locken and Hansen are helping an East European defector, Vorodny (Helmut Dantine) escape. After delivering the defector to other ComTeg operatives, Locken and Hansen throw a wild party to relax. The next day, they go to a ComTeg safehouse to relieve other agents who have been guarding Vorodny, the defector they previously helped escape.
Flareup (1969)
, 1h40Directed by James Neilson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew, Ron Rifkin, Don Chastain, Jean Byron
Michele (Welch) is a Vagas dancer who is, as the saying goes, red hot: maybe too hot, for in this film, she learns that somebody wants her dead. She gets help from the cops, but along the way the killer stays on her trail, and she learns it may be a man she knows. It also features Welch dancing to the song Suzie Q, which became a hit song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Timestalkers (1987)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Western
Themes Time travel films
Actors William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker, Klaus Kinski, Tracey Walter
Dr. Scott McKenzie (William Devane) is a college professor and ardent fan of the gunslinger culture of the Old West. A year ago, McKenzie watched his wife and son die in a car crash caused by a drunk driver attempting to flee the police. With his friend, General Joe Brodsky (John Ratzenberger), McKenzie attends an auction of Wild West memorabilia, where they agree to bid on a pair of steamer trunks and split the contents between them. As the auction is conducted, flashbacks show the items' histories in the 19th century. At the time a man, Joseph Cole (Klaus Kinski), is looking for a gunslinger who has a pair of distinctive ebony-handled pistols marked with stars. Some cowboys he encounters on the road point him towards the town of Crossfire, California. At the town saloon, he inquires about the man but is harassed by a trio of local thugs, one of whom shoots at him, hitting instead one of the trunks which Dr. McKenzie is bidding on in the present. Cole quickly shoots all three men dead, an event memorialized by a local photographer. In the present, McKenzie and Brodsky win the trunks at auction and McKenzie begins sorting through the contents, noticing the picture of the men who Cole killed.
Deadly Hero (1975)
, 1h44Directed by Ivan Nagy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Don Murray, James Earl Jones, Treat Williams, Lilia Skala, Conchata Ferrell, Danny DeVito
Officer Lacy (played by Don Murray) is an 18-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior. Responding to a call on Manhattan's West Side, he finds a young musician named Sally (Diahn Williams) has been abducted by a mugger named Rabbit (James Earl Jones). Rabbit has Sally at knifepoint in a hostage standoff but is persuaded to release her and surrender by Officer Lacy, who kills the unarmed Rabbit anyway. A grateful Sally is convinced by Lacy to lie to detectives to make Lacy seem like a hero. She later changes her mind and tells the truth about the shooting. This drives Lacy to try to silence Sally with escalating threats and violence before his career is ruined and he's tried for Rabbit's murder.
Da Vinci's War (1993)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Michael Nouri, Joey Travolta, Vanity, James Russo, Brian Robbins, Richard Foronjy
Entre anciens combattants du Viet-Nam, il y a des secrets qu'il vaut mieux tenir cachés. Mais quand leur possession devient connue, on est en danger de mort. Ainsi Franck Da Vinci voit-il assassiner ses proches... et c'est la CIA qui est derrière ces crimes. Grâce aux amis qui l'entourent, et à son passé de soldat très spécial, il réussit à mettre dans son camp quelques atouts, dont China Smith, un tueur à gages.
Above the Law (2017)
Directed by François Troukens, Jean-François Hensgens
Origin Belgique
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Lubna Azabal, Olivier Gourmet, Bouli Lanners, Kevin Janssens, Tibo Vandenborre, Anne Coesens
Alors que Frank Valken réalise un casse fabuleux, un commando de tueurs entre en action et exécute tous les témoins. On relève, parmi les cadavres, celui de la magistrate qui enquête sur l’affaire des tueurs fous. Trente ans plus tard, ils semblent être de retour. Arrêté en flagrant délit et face à la pression médiatique, Frank n’a d'autre choix que de s’évader pour tenter de prouver son innocence.
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
, 1h47Directed by George Armitage
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria
Professional assassin Martin Blank finds himself depressed, disenchanted and bored with his work. A major problem is his chief rival Grocer, whose effort to cartelize the hitman business puts him at potentially lethal odds with the unaccompanied Martin. Following a botched contract, Martin receives an invitation to his 10-year high school reunion in his hometown of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Initially reluctant to attend, he is pressured into it by both his therapist, Dr. Oatman, and his secretary, Marcella. She books him a contract in Michigan that coincides with the reunion, ostensibly to smooth things over with the client whose contract was botched.
The Karate Killers (1967)
, 1h32Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Kim Darby, Leo G. Carroll, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are being attacked with missiles from small helicopters while on their way to see Dr. Simon True. The attackers work for THRUSH and, though they fail to stop the agents, are the titular “Karate Killers.”
Natural Born Killers (1994)
, 1h58Directed by Oliver Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield
Mickey Knox and his wife Mallory stop at a roadside café in the New Mexico desert. A group of rednecks arrive and one begins sexually harassing Mallory. She briefly encourages him before beating him to a pulp. Mickey and Mallory then murder all but one of the diner's patrons, culminating in a morbid game of Eeny, meeny, miny, moe to decide who lives and dies. After executing the waitress Mabel, the couple ensures that the only survivor remembers their names before they embrace and declare their undying love.
Charley Varrick (1973)
, 1h51Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Felicia Farr, Jacqueline Scott
Charley Varrick (Matthau) is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot. The aging trailer-park dweller has clearly not been too successful. Together with his wife Nadine and co-conspirators Al Dutcher and Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), a heavily disguised Varrick robs a bank in the rural crossroads community of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. During the robbery, two policemen and Dutcher are killed. Nadine drives the get-away car and eludes the police, but she, too, has been mortally wounded. Varrick distracts the police by blowing up the getaway car with black powder and gasoline, with his wife's body inside. He and Sullivan escape.
The Scarlet Dove (1961)
, 1h26Directed by Matti Kassila
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Tauno Palo, Matti Oravisto, Tauno Söder, Paavo Hukkinen, Eila Pehkonen, Osmo Lindeman
Tulpa - Demon of Desire (2012)
, 1h24Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Michela Cescon, Ivan Franek, Giorgia Sinicorni, Crisula Stafida
Lisa Boeri (Claudia Gerini) is a business woman with a secret double life: if during the day she is a busy and serious worker, the night she is an assiduous frequenter of the private club Tulpa, owned by a haunting Tibetan guru, where the sickest fantasies of customers become reality. But the fiery lovers who attended Lisa begin to die one by one in increasingly cruel ways, and the woman finds herself involved in the chain of murders. Forced to investigate on her own, not to discover his double life to the police, she will face a terrible escalation of death, mystery and eroticism.