126 articles
Lord of War
Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, an international arms dealer selling Soviet bloc weapons.
Lucky Number Slevin
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) is a neo-noir crime thriller directed by Paul McGuigan, written by Jason Smilovic, starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, and Lucy Liu, built on a Kansas City Shuffle revenge plot.
Mad Detective (神探)
Mad Detective (神探, San taam) is a 2007 Hong Kong crime thriller co-directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Lau Ching-wan as a detective who sees people's inner personalities in a missing-gun case; it won the 27th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay.
Mad Money (film)
Mad Money is a 2008 comedy heist film directed by Callie Khouri, starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes as women stealing worn-out bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Match Point
Written and directed by Woody Allen, Match Point is a 2005 drama-thriller set in London. It tells of an Irish tennis instructor whose marriage threatens his social standing.
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Brooks is a 2007 American psychological crime thriller directed by Bruce A. Evans, in which Kevin Costner plays a Portland businessman who is secretly the serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer.
Nancy Drew (2007 film)
Nancy Drew (2007 film), also called the Emma Roberts Nancy Drew movie, is a Warner Bros. family mystery-comedy directed by Andrew Fleming, released June 15, 2007, grossing about $30.7 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men: 2007 neo-Western crime film by Joel and Ethan Coen, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel; Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones; won four Oscars including Best Picture.
Obsessed (2009 film)
Obsessed is a 2009 American psychological thriller directed by Steve Shill, starring Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, and Ali Larter as an office temp who stalks him.
Overheard (窃听风云)
Overheard (窃听风云) is a 2009 Hong Kong crime thriller by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, starring Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, and Daniel Wu as surveillance cops who trade on overheard insider information; it topped Hong Kong's 2009 local summer box office and spawned two sequels.
Perfect Stranger (film)
Perfect Stranger is a 2007 American psychological thriller directed by James Foley, in which Halle Berry's investigative reporter goes undercover to probe advertising executive Bruce Willis for murder.
Police, Adjective
Police, Adjective (Polițist, adjectiv) is Corneliu Porumboiu's 2009 Romanian New Wave drama, 115 minutes, in which detective Cristi (Dragoș Bucur) resists arresting a hashish-sharing teenager; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2009 and ends with a famous dictionary scene.
Premonition (2007 film)
Premonition is a 2007 American supernatural thriller directed by Mennan Yapo, starring Sandra Bullock as a housewife who experiences the days around her husband's fatal car accident out of sequence.
Pride and Glory (film)
Pride and Glory is a 2008 American crime drama directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, and Noah Emmerich as a NYPD family torn by a corruption investigation; released October 24, 2008 by Warner Bros.
Protégé (门徒)
Protégé (門徒, Moon to) is a 2007 Hong Kong crime drama directed by Derek Yee, produced by Peter Chan, starring Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhang Jingchu, and Louis Koo, about an undercover cop infiltrating a heroin lord for eight years.
Red (2008 film)
Red (2008) is an American-Norwegian revenge drama directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee, adapted from Jack Ketchum's novel, starring Brian Cox as a widower seeking justice after teens kill his dog; distinct from the 2010 action film RED.
Red Eye (2005 American film)
Red Eye is a 2005 American psychological thriller directed by Wes Craven, in which Rachel McAdams is coerced on a flight by terrorist Cillian Murphy.
Rendition (film)
Rendition (2007 film), also known as Rendition movie, is a political thriller directed by Gavin Hood, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, and Meryl Streep; the first major film on extraordinary rendition, released October 19, 2007 by New Line Cinema.
Revanche (Реванш)
Revanche (Реванш) is a 2008 Austrian crime drama by Götz Spielmann: a brothel driver's bank robbery kills his lover Tamara, leading toward revenge; Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film.
Revolver (2005 film)
Revolver is a 2005 crime thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as gambler Jake Green, who falls under the protection of two enigmatic loan sharks.
Righteous Kill
Righteous Kill is a 2008 American crime thriller directed by Jon Avnet. It stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as NYPD partners investigating a vigilante serial killer.
Running Scared (2006 film)
Running Scared is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller written and directed by Wayne Kramer, starring Paul Walker as a mobster who must recover a gun held by a ten-year-old boy.
Shinjuku Incident (新宿インシデント)
Shinjuku Incident (新宿事件, San suk si gin) is a 2009 Hong Kong crime drama by Derek Yee starring Jackie Chan as an illegal Chinese immigrant who becomes a gang boss in Tokyo's Shinjuku; banned in mainland China.
Stay (2005 film)
Stay (2005) is an American psychological thriller directed by Marc Forster, written by David Benioff, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling; a psychiatrist tries to stop a suicidal patient, released by 20th Century Fox, grossing $8.5 million.
Street Kings
Street Kings is a 2008 American crime drama directed by David Ayer, starring Keanu Reeves as an LAPD detective implicated in a fellow officer's death.
Survival Island
Survival Island, also known as Three, is a 2005 survival thriller directed and written by Stewart Raffill, starring Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, and Juan Pablo Di Pace as shipwreck survivors in a deadly love triangle; it grossed $558,764 worldwide on a $9 million budget.
Syriana
Syriana (2005) is a geopolitical thriller written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on CIA officer Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil. George Clooney won Best Supporting Actor; Warner Bros. distributed the four-strand oil-industry drama.
Tazza: The High Rollers (타짜)
Tazza: The High Rollers (타짜) is a 2006 South Korean film directed by Choi Dong-hoon, starring Cho Seung-woo as a young man training to become a professional gambler.
Tell No One
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) is a 2006 French thriller by Guillaume Canet, adapted from Harlan Coben's 2001 novel, starring François Cluzet; it won four Césars including best director.
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.