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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (我心遗忘的节奏)
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté, 我心遗忘的节奏) is Jacques Audiard's 2005 French drama, a remake of James Toback's Fingers, starring Romain Duris as a real-estate enforcer turned aspiring pianist; it won eight Césars including Best Film.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.