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Hell Drivers (1957)
, 1h48Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, David McCallum, Sean Connery
Tom Yately, just released from prison, is determined to start a new life and he gets a job as a driver at Hawletts, a haulage company that transports loads of ballast gravel from a nearby quarry. The truck-drivers are offered bonuses by the agent Cartley for delivering their loads at dangerously high speeds along narrow roads. Tom is accepted by the other drivers except Red, the foreman and head driver and also a violent bully. Tom soon becomes friends with Gino, an Italian driver who is in love with Cartley's secretary Lucy. Red offers a cash bonus to any driver who can make more runs than him and Tom is determined to try.
Night Train (1959)
, 1h33Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Aleksander Sewruk, Barbara Horawianka, Czesław Piaskowski
Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Night Train (2007)
, 1h34Directed by Diao Yi'nan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about capital punishment
The film follows a young woman, Wu Hongyan (Liu Dan), who works as a prison guard who aids in the execution of female prisoners. Lonely and widowed, Wu finds herself taking the night train to a dating service in a neighboring city.
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
, 1h51Directed by Bille August
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Jeremy Irons, Christopher Lee, Bruno Ganz, Mélanie Laurent, Martina Gedeck, Jack Huston
Walking over a bridge in Bern, Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of ancient languages, notices a young woman in a red coat standing on the railing, about to leap. Dropping his briefcase, he runs and pulls her down. She helps him gather the papers that have spilled from his briefcase and accompanies him to the school where he teaches. But instead of waiting to talk, she leaves during the middle of his class, without her coat.
Night Train to Munich (1940)
, 1h35Directed by Carol Reed, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Wyndham Goldie
As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plating, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna (Margaret Lockwood), is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to a concentration camp, where she is interrogated by Nazis who are after her father. Anna refuses to cooperate. Soon she is befriended by a fellow prisoner named Karl Marsen (Paul Henreid), who says he is a teacher imprisoned for his political views. Together they are able to escape and make their way to London. Anna does not know that Marsen is in fact a Gestapo agent assigned to gain her trust and locate her father.
Train Ride (2005)
, 1h33Directed by Rel Dowdell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Wood Harris, KaDee Strickland-Behr, Russell Hornsby, Esther Elizabeth Rolle, Rel Dowdell
Helltrain (1977)
, 1h48Directed by Alain Payet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Monica Swinn, Sandra Mozarowsky, Christine Aurel, Claudine Beccarie, Bob Asklöf, Frank Braña
1941. L'Allemagne nazie étend son pouvoir dictatorial à travers l'europe . Pour distraire et réconforter les officiers mobilisés sur le front de l'Europe de l'est, le SS Otto Kramer, proche d'Hitler, décide de mettre en place un réseau de call-girls aryennes. Elles embarqueront dans un train spécial transformé en bordel qui sillonnera l'Europe. À leur tête, Kramer engage sa maîtresse Ingrid Schüler, une chanteuse et danseuse de cabaret en vogue et dotée d'un solide réseau de connaissances dans le parti nazi. Promue capitaine, elle forme aussitôt une équipe spéciale de prostituées, destinées à remonter le moral des soldats du IIIème Reich. Mais la tension est vive à bord du train : Rita, l'une d'entre elles, ne supporte pas la discipline de fer d'Ingrid, femme perfide et autoritaire. Elles n'ont pas d'autre choix que d'assouvir les fantasmes tordus et violents des SS sous peine d'être réprimandées par leur maquerelle. Au fil des années, leur effectif est renforcé d'un groupe de condamnées, coupables d'un complot raté contre Hitler. Parmi elles, Ingrid reconnaît son amie d'enfance Helga dont le père a été exécuté pour trahison. Jusqu'au jour où des partisans polonais envahissent le train pour humilier Ingrid. Elle est sauvée par l'officier allemand Paul Gruhn dont elle tombe amoureuse. Mais ce dernier est séduit par Helga, une autre fille de joie du convoi. Mais Ingrid et ses call-girls, aidés par Gruhn, vont devoir se défendre contre l'attaque des polonais et des Américains qui cherchent à détruire le train.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
, 2h39Directed by S. Craig Zahler
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden
Deux policiers, le vieux briscard Brett Ridgeman et son partenaire plus jeune Anthony Lurasetti, sont dénoncés pour leurs méthodes douteuses lorsqu'une vidéo est publiée par les médias. Les deux hommes sont donc suspendus. Sans ressources financières, ils décident de basculer dans la criminalité. Mais ils vont être rapidement dépassés par ce qui les attend.
Training Day (2001)
, 2h2Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, L'action se déroule en une journée, Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Raymond J. Barry
The film follows a day in the life of Los Angeles Police Department officer, Jake Hoyt, who is scheduled to be evaluated by Detective Alonzo Harris, a highly decorated LAPD narcotics officer. In Alonzo's car, the officer sees teenage Mara Salvatrucha gang members dealing drugs in a park. Alonzo confiscates the drugs and tells Jake to take a hit of the marijuana. Jake refuses, but Alonzo puts a gun to his head and says that Jake's failure to use drugs could get him killed by a street dealer.
Shock Treatment (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Alain Jessua
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Vieillesse, La précarité, Films about psychiatry, Immortalité
Actors Annie Girardot, Alain Delon, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hirsch, Jean-François Calvé, Jeanne Colletin
Depressed after being abandoned by her young lover, affluent Helene (Annie Giradot) heads off to a health clinic on the coast. The treatments by Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon) make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. However, Helene stumbles upon the resort's dark secret: the patients rejuvenation comes at the expense of Portuguese youths, who arrive at the clinic to work in the gardens and are never seen again.
The Full Treatment (1960)
, 2hDirected by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Françoise Rosay, Ronald Lewis, Bernard Braden, George Merritt
A racing driver, involved in a bad accident, goes to the Cote D'Azur to recuperate. While there he becomes increasingly prone to violence, and draws a Harley Street doctor into his problems.
The Molly Maguires (1970)
, 2h4Directed by Martin Ritt, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Bethel Leslie, Anthony Zerbe
The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish coal miners established in nineteenth century Pennsylvania to fight oppressive mineowners. Led by Jack Kehoe (Sean Connery), they plant dynamite to destroy plant shafts and equipment. As character James McParlan, Richard Harris portrays real life Pinkerton Detective James McParland who was employed to infiltrate the Mollies.
Trance (2013)
, 1h41Directed by Danny Boyle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Tuppence Middleton, Danny Sapani, Spencer Wilding
Simon (McAvoy), an art auctioneer, becomes an accessory to the theft of a painting–Goya's Witches in the Air–from his own auction house. When a gang attacks during an auction, Simon follows the house emergency protocol by packaging the painting. The gang's leader Franck (Cassel) then takes the package from him at gunpoint. Simon attacks Franck, who delivers him a blow to the head that leaves him with amnesia. When Franck gets home, he discovers that the package contains only an empty frame. After ransacking Simon's apartment and trashing his car, the gang kidnaps and unsuccessfully tortures him. But he has no memory of where he has hidden the painting. Franck decides to hire a hypnotherapist to try to help him remember.
Trancers 6: Life After Deth (2002)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Douglas Smith, Tim Thomerson
In a return to the original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine (Zette Sullivan), on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive, avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.