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The Bank Job
The Bank Job (2008) is a British heist thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, loosely based on the unsolved 1971 Baker Street 'walkie-talkie' bank robbery with a fictional MI5 royal-photographs premise.
The Box (2009 film)
The Box (2009) is Richard Kelly's science fiction thriller starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1970 short story Button, Button: a couple is offered $1 million to press a fatal button.
The Chaser (추격자) (2008 film)
The Chaser (추격자) is Na Hong-jin's 2008 South Korean crime thriller debut about an ex-detective pimp hunting a serial killer, screened at Cannes 2008, with 5 million admissions and Grand Bell Best Film, Director, and Actor awards.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a 2009 British kidnap thriller, the feature debut of writer-director J Blakeson, starring Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, and Martin Compston in a three-hander about a £2m ransom kidnapping that goes wrong.
The Happening (2008 film)
The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, in which plants release an airborne neurotoxin.
The Headless Woman
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) is Lucrecia Martel's 2008 Argentine drama, in competition at Cannes, starring María Onetto as a dentist who may have killed someone in a hit-and-run; produced by the Almodóvars, Metascore 81.
The International (2009 film)
The International (2009) is a Tom Tykwer political thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts hunting a terrorism-financing bank, the IBBC; opened the 2009 Berlinale, grossed about $60 million on a $50 million budget.
The Limits of Control (حدود السيطرة)
The Limits of Control (Los límites del control) is Jim Jarmusch's 2009 slow-cinema crime film starring Isaach de Bankolé as a near-silent hitman crossing Spain, shot by Christopher Doyle, with Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray cameos.
The Other Man (2008 film)
The Other Man is a 2008 British-American psychological thriller directed by Richard Eyre and adapted from a short story by Bernhard Schlink, starring Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas.
The Oxford Murders
The Oxford Murders (Los crímenes de Oxford) is a 2008 Álex de la Iglesia thriller starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, adapted from Guillermo Martínez's novel, about mathematically linked murders at Oxford.
The Sparrow (文雀)
Sparrow (文雀, Man jeuk) is a 2008 Hong Kong film by Johnnie To about four pickpockets led by Simon Yam hired by Kelly Lin's mysterious woman; shot over four years, it competed at the 2008 Berlinale.
Thick as Thieves (2009 film)
Thick as Thieves, also released as The Code, is a 2009 heist thriller directed by Mimi Leder, starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, and Radha Mitchell, about stealing two Fabergé eggs to repay a Russian mob debt; distinct from Lloyd Tate II's 2009 film of the same name.
Traitor (film)
Traitor is a 2008 American political thriller directed and co-written by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, starring Don Cheadle as Samir Horn and Guy Pearce as FBI agent Roy Clayton.
Untraceable
Untraceable is a 2008 American thriller directed by Gregory Hoblit, starring Diane Lane as an FBI cyber-crimes agent tracking a killer who streams his victims' deaths live online.
Vantage Point (film)
Vantage Point is a 2008 American political thriller directed by Pete Travis. It stars Dennis Quaid and depicts an assassination attempt in Spain from multiple eyewitness perspectives.
Vengeance (2009 film)
Vengeance (復仇) is Johnnie To's 2009 Hong Kong-France action thriller, written by Wai Ka-fai, starring Johnny Hallyday as an amnesiac chef avenging his daughter's family in Macau; it competed at Cannes 2009.
Whiteout (2009 film)
Whiteout is a 2009 Antarctic murder mystery thriller directed by Dominic Sena, starring Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshal solving Antarctica's first homicide before winter sets in.