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The Negotiator
The Negotiator is a 1998 American crime thriller directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as police hostage negotiators on opposite sides of a stand-off.
The Net (1995 film)
The Net is a 1995 Columbia Pictures techno-thriller directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Sandra Bullock as analyst Angela Bennett, whose identity is erased by a conspiracy involving the Gatekeeper program; released July 1995 with Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic.
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate (La Neuvième Porte, La novena puerta) is Roman Polanski's 1999 occult thriller, adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel El club Dumas, starring Johnny Depp as rare-book dealer Dean Corso authenticating a satanic 1666 text; 133 minutes, 44% Tomatometer, $18.7M US gross.
The Pelican Brief (film)
The Pelican Brief (1993) is Alan J. Pakula's legal-political thriller adapted from John Grisham's novel, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington; 141 minutes, Warner Bros., released December 17, 1993, grossing $100.7 million in the US.
The River Wild
The River Wild is a 1994 Universal action thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Meryl Streep as rafting guide Gail Hartman, with Kevin Bacon and David Strathairn; released September 30, 1994, it opened No. 1 with $10.2 million.
The Russia House (film)
The Russia House is a 1990 American spy drama directed by Fred Schepisi from John le Carré's 1989 novel, starring Sean Connery as a publisher recruited to assess a Soviet manuscript.
The Siege
The Siege (1998) is Edward Zwick's political thriller starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Bruce Willis, about terrorist attacks in New York, martial law, and internment of Arab-Americans; released November 6, 1998 by 20th Century Fox, grossing $40.9M, with mixed reviews (44% Tomatometer) and noted post-9/11 prescience.
The Two Jakes
The Two Jakes (1990) is Jack Nicholson's sequel to Chinatown, directed by Nicholson from Robert Towne's screenplay, with Harvey Keitel as Jake Berman; set in 1948 Los Angeles, its oil-plot murder case flopped at the box office.
The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects (1995) is a Bryan Singer neo-noir mystery, written by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Kevin Spacey as con man Verbal Kint, whose unreliable tale of crime lord Keyser Soze won two Oscars and became a twist-ending landmark.
The Vanishing (1993 film)
The Vanishing (1993 film), or La Disparue, is an American psychological thriller directed by George Sluizer. It is a remake of the 1988 Dutch film Spoorloos.
The Victim (目露凶光)
The Victim (目露凶光, Muk lou hung gwong) is a 1999 Hong Kong supernatural crime thriller directed by Ringo Lam, starring Lau Ching-wan, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Amy Kwok, released 16 October 1999 by Mei Ah with two alternate endings.
Thunderheart
Thunderheart is a 1992 American mystery thriller directed by Michael Apted, written by John Fusco, starring Val Kilmer as an FBI agent investigating a murder on a South Dakota Sioux reservation, inspired by 1970s Pine Ridge events and the Leonard Peltier case.
True Crime (1999 film)
True Crime is a 1999 American crime drama directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as a reporter trying to prove a death-row inmate innocent, based on Andrew Klavan's 1995 novel.
Twilight (1998 film)
Twilight (1998) is a Robert Benton neo-noir detective drama starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, and Reese Witherspoon, unrelated to the 2008 vampire film; released by Paramount March 6, 1998, grossing $15 million domestically.
U Turn (1997 film)
U Turn is Oliver Stone's 1997 neo-noir thriller, written by John Ridley from his novel Stray Dogs, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. A gambler stranded in Superior, Arizona is caught between a couple who each want the other dead; shot in 42 days for $20 million, it grossed $6.6 million.
Unlawful Entry (film)
Unlawful Entry is a 1992 American psychological crime thriller directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, and Madeleine Stowe as a couple stalked by an obsessed Los Angeles police officer.
Zentropa
Zentropa, released in Europe as Europa, is a 1991 Danish-led black-and-white thriller directed by Lars von Trier, about a young German-American sleeping-car conductor in postwar Germany.