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The Brave One (2007 film)
The Brave One is a 2007 American vigilante thriller directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster as a New York radio host who takes revenge on criminals.
The Business (2005 film)
The Business is a 2005 British crime film by Nick Love, starring Danny Dyer as Frankie, a South Londoner who joins Tamer Hassan's expat drug gang on the 1980s Costa del Sol, made by Vertigo Films for under £2 million.
The Constant Gardener (film)
The Constant Gardener (2005) is a Fernando Meirelles thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, adapted by Jeffrey Caine from John le Carré's 2001 novel about a diplomat investigating his wife's murder and a pharmaceutical conspiracy in Kenya; Weisz won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
The Departed
The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson, a remake of Infernal Affairs that won Best Picture.
The Good Shepherd (film)
The Good Shepherd (2006) is a spy drama directed by Robert De Niro, written by Eric Roth, starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, dramatizing the CIA's founding through fictional officer Edward Wilson, loosely based on James Angleton; grossed about $100 million worldwide.
The Hitcher (2007 film)
The Hitcher is a 2007 American road horror thriller directed by Dave Meyers, a remake of the 1986 film, starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, and Zachary Knighton.
The Illusionist (2006 film)
The Illusionist (2006) is Neil Burger's romantic thriller, adapted from Steven Millhauser's "Eisenheim the Illusionist," starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, and Rufus Sewell; shot in Prague as Vienna, scored by Philip Glass, and released the same year as The Prestige.
The Lookout
The Lookout (2007) is Scott Frank's directorial debut, a neo-noir heist thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a brain-damaged former athlete roped into robbing the bank where he works, with Jeff Daniels; 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, Independent Spirit Award winner.
The Method
The Method (El método, 2005) is a Spanish-Argentine corporate thriller by Marcelo Piñeyro, adapted freely from Jordi Galcerán's play El método Grönholm, in which seven job candidates destroy each other in a Madrid selection test; it won two Goya Awards.
The Number 23
The Number 23 is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, an animal control officer obsessed with a novel about the 23 Enigma; released February 23, 2007 by New Line Cinema, it grossed $77.7 million worldwide but scored 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Page Turner
The Page Turner (La tourneuse de pages) is a 2006 French psychological thriller by Denis Dercourt, 85 minutes, starring Catherine Frot and Déborah François, about a failed piano student's revenge as a concert pianist's page turner; Cannes Un Certain Regard, 77% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Prestige (film)
The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan's mystery drama adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel, stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival Victorian magicians; it earned $109 million worldwide and two Oscar nominations.
The Pye-Dog
The Pye-Dog (野．良犬) is Derek Kwok Chi-Kin's 2007 Hong Kong drama debut, starring Eason Chan as a triad gofer posing as a school janitor to kidnap a mute boy, with Siu Yam-Yam winning the 27th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The Quiet
The Quiet is a 2005 American psychological thriller, also known as Dot, directed by Jamie Babbit, starring Camilla Belle as a deaf orphan and Elisha Cuthbert; released 2006 by Sony Pictures Classics, grossing $381,420. Distinct from The Quiet Man, The Quiet Girl, and Quiet Earth.
Triangle (铁三角) (2007 film)
Triangle (鐵三角, The Iron Triangle) is a 2007 Hong Kong heist thriller directed in relay by Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and Johnnie To, about three friends digging for gold treasure beneath Hong Kong's Legislative Council Building.
We Own the Night (film)
We Own the Night is James Gray's 2007 crime drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, and Eva Mendes, set in 1988 New York, where a Brooklyn nightclub manager torn between the Russian mafia and his cop family joins the police; it competed at Cannes 2007 and grossed $28.6 million in the US.
Yella (2007 film)
Yella is Christian Petzold's 2007 German drama-thriller starring Nina Hoss as an East German woman who apparently survives her ex-husband driving their car into the Elbe and starts over in Hannover venture capital; Hoss won the 2007 Berlinale Silver Bear.
Zodiac (film)
Zodiac is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by David Fincher, based on Robert Graysmith's books about the unsolved Zodiac Killer case in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Zyzzyx Road
Zyzzyx Road (Zyzzyx Rd.) is a 2006 John Penney thriller starring Leo Grillo, Katherine Heigl, and Tom Sizemore, famous as the lowest-grossing U.S. film: $30 from six tickets in one rented Dallas theater, a deliberate SAG-requirement release.