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2005–2009 films

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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.

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.

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.

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.