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100 Top Thrillers
(99 titles)
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A History of Violence
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt
Director: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action ..read more »
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64%
from 72,824 members
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All The President's Men
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW) found a story worthy of his gift for conspiracy-driven drama in this adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their investigation of the Watergate burglary, of which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...read more »
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72%
from 10,073 members
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Along Came A Spider
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Dylan Baker
Director: Lee Tamahori
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The redoubtable Morgan Freeman returns as Washington, DC police detective Alex Cross, the master profiler, in an exciting thriller based on James Patterson's novel, ALONG CAME A SPIDER. The film is actually a prequel to the box office blockbuster KISS THE GIRLS. Here, Cross is pursuing a ..read more »
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67%
from 9,996 members
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Arlington Road
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack
Director: Mark Pellington
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George Washington University professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) teaches a course in terrorism, but after his wife, an FBI agent, is killed under questionable circumstances, he becomes obsessed with the topic. An all-American family moves in across the street, but Faraday soon suspects that ..read more »
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69%
from 7,342 members
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Audition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
Director: Takashi Miike
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AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television ..read more »
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62%
from 15,587 members
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Below
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Davis, Olivia Williams
Director: David N. Twohy
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In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse (Olivia Williams), raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. Commanding ..read more »
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57%
from 2,935 members
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The Birds
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
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71%
from 13,375 members
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Blood Simple
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Hedaya, John Getz
Director: Joel Coen
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When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unknown at the ..read more »
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65%
from 10,236 members
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Blue Velvet
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Director: David Lynch
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A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer...read more »
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67%
from 14,879 members
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Bonnie And Clyde
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
Director: Arthur Penn
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Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie is bored with life and wants a ..read more »
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69%
from 8,207 members
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Cape Fear
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
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69%
from 14,801 members
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The China Syndrome
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Director: James Bridges
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An explosive thriller where a TV news crew inadvertently films a startling, controversial incident at a nuclear power plant and a veteran engineer becomes a prime target for murder.
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65%
from 1,779 member
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Chinatown
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
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73%
from 23,136 members
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Cube
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson
Director: Vincenzo Natali
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Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned... But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that ..read more »
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63%
from 17,158 members
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Day Of The Jackal
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Edward Fox, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Pickup
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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This suspense thriller about a daring plot to murder Charles De Gaulle is based on Frederick Forsyth's best-seller. The movie's suspenseful pace is tied to the incredibly careful and intricate planning the man code-named "the Jackal" does in preparation for the hit. This classic was watered down ..read more »
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71%
from 7,487 members
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Dead Ringers
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske
Director: David Cronenberg
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Cronenberg coaxes a phenomenal performance out of Irons in this disturbing tale of Beverly and Elliot Mantle-twin gynecologists who literally can't exist without each other, sharing everything from an apartment to women. When a glamorous, neurotic actress (Bujold) enters into their world, she ..read more »
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59%
from 3,521 members
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The Deer Hunter
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage
Director: Michael Cimino
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This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends from a Pennsylvania town was Michael Cimino's second film and established him in the pantheon of American directors. Complex and emotionally raw performances from Robert De Niro and Meryl ..read more »
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73%
from 28,062 members
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Deliverance
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage notions about achieving true masculinity by challenging nature, Lewis cajoles three of his friends, Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew ..read more »
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69%
from 13,177 members
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Die Hard
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Gleason
Director: John McTiernan
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On Christmas Eve, a New York cop comes to L.A. to see his estranged wife at her company's Christmas party, held on the top floor of a sparkling skyscraper. When terrorists capture the building, the incredulous cop is the hostages' only hope for survival.One of the greatest action movies of the late ..read more »
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75%
from 50,325 members
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