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13 (2010 film)
13 (2010) is Géla Babluani's English-language remake of his 13 Tzameti, starring Sam Riley, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, and Ray Winstone in a Russian roulette death-game thriller; it grossed $3.7 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
A Good Marriage (film)
A Good Marriage (2014) is a psychological thriller directed by Peter Askin from Stephen King's screenplay adapting his own Full Dark, No Stars novella, inspired by the BTK Killer; Joan Allen discovers her husband (Anthony LaPaglia) is a serial killer.
A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year is a 2014 J.C. Chandor crime drama starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as a heating-oil business couple in 1981 New York, the city's statistically most dangerous year; A24 release, National Board of Review Best Film.
A Most Wanted Man (film)
A Most Wanted Man (2014), Anton Corbijn's adaptation of John le Carré's 2008 novel, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Hamburg BND officer Günther Bachmann in his final completed film, with Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, $17.2M US gross.
A Walk Among the Tombstones (film)
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir crime thriller directed and written by Scott Frank, starring Liam Neeson as ex-NYPD cop turned unlicensed private investigator Matthew Scudder.
A Wife's Nightmare
A Wife's Nightmare is a 2014 Lifetime TV thriller directed by Vic Sarin, starring Jennifer Beals, Dylan Neal, and Lola Tash. A wife recovering from a breakdown suspects a stranger claiming to be her husband's daughter; filmed in Kelowna, BC.
Aardvark (2010 film)
Aardvark (2010) is Kitao Sakurai's docudrama debut in which blind recovering alcoholic Larry Lewis Jr. and jiu-jitsu teacher Darren Branch play themselves before the story turns into a film noir; it premiered at Locarno 2010, winning a Special Mention for Best First Feature.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Ain't Them Bodies Saints is David Lowery's 2013 crime drama, also called Les amants du Texas, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as 1970s Texas outlaws; Sundance premiere, Bradford Young cinematography award, IFC Films release.
American Heist
American Heist (2014) is a Sarik Andreasyan crime drama starring Hayden Christensen, Adrien Brody, Jordana Brewster, and Akon; a New Orleans-set remake of The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery and Glacier Films' first production, released at TIFF 2014 and critically panned (Metascore 23).
American Hustle
American Hustle is a 2013 American crime comedy-drama directed by David O. Russell, loosely based on the FBI's Abscam sting and starring Christian Bale and Amy Adams.
Anaamika (అనామిక)
Anaamika (అనామిక), Tamil Nee Enge En Anbe, is a 2014 Telugu-Tamil bilingual thriller by Sekhar Kammula, a remake of Kahaani starring Nayanthara as a woman searching Hyderabad for her missing husband, released 1 May 2014.
Animal Kingdom (film)
Animal Kingdom (2010) is David Michôd's Australian crime drama debut about the Cody family, starring Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton; Sundance World Cinema Jury Prize winner, nine AFI Awards, and the basis of the 2016 TNT series.
Arbitrage (film)
Arbitrage is a 2012 American thriller drama, Nicholas Jarecki's feature directorial debut, starring Richard Gere as hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller hiding fraud and a fatal crash while selling his empire; also with Sarandon, Roth, and Marling.
Beyond Outrage (アウトレイジ ビヨンド)
Beyond Outrage (アウトレイジ ビヨンド, Outrage Beyond) is Takeshi Kitano's 2012 yakuza sequel to Outrage: police free presumed-dead boss Otomo to spark a Sanno-Hanabishi war; Venice competition, 1.45 billion yen Japanese gross.
Black Sea (film)
Black Sea is a 2014 submarine thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Jude Law as a laid-off salvage captain who leads a British-Russian crew to recover sunken Nazi gold.
Blind (블라인드) (2011 film)
Blind (블라인드) is a 2011 South Korean thriller directed by Ahn Sang-hoon, starring Kim Ha-neul as a blind witness to a hit-and-run who helps catch the killer.
Blind Detective (盲探)
Blind Detective (盲探) is a 2013 Hong Kong crime comedy film directed by Johnnie To, starring Andy Lau as a blind former detective and Sammi Cheng.
Blood Ties (2013 film)
Blood Ties (2013) is Guillaume Canet's English-language debut, a Brooklyn-set 1970s crime drama remaking Jacques Maillot's Les Liens du sang, starring Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, and James Caan; premiered out of competition at Cannes 2013.
Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin (2013) is Jeremy Saulnier's American revenge thriller starring Macon Blair as Dwight, an inept drifter avenging his parents' murder. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won the FIPRESCI Prize, funded partly via Kickstarter, released 2014 by Radius TWC.
Brighton Rock (2010 film)
Brighton Rock (2010) is Rowan Joffe's debut feature, adapting Graham Greene's 1938 novel, set in 1964 Brighton amid Mods and Rockers. Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren star; second adaptation after the 1947 Boulting film.
Broken City
Broken City (2013) is a political crime thriller directed by Allen Hughes, starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones; released January 18, 2013 by 20th Century Fox, grossing $19.7M, with 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Carancho
Carancho is a 2010 Argentine noir thriller by Pablo Trapero, starring Ricardo Darín and Martina Gusmán, about an ambulance-chasing lawyer; Cannes Un Certain Regard film and Argentina's 83rd Academy Awards submission.
Cold Eyes (감시자들)
Cold Eyes (감시자들, Gamshijadeul) is a 2013 South Korean crime action thriller, co-directed by Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo and starring Sul Kyung-gu and Han Hyo-joo, about a police surveillance unit hunting a robbery gang.
Cold in July (film)
Cold in July is a 2014 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Jim Mickle with Nick Damici, adapted from Joe R. Lansdale's 1989 novel, starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, and Don Johnson; it premiered at Sundance and Cannes and grossed $414.6K.
Cold War (寒战) (2012 film)
Cold War (寒戰) is a 2012 Hong Kong police thriller, the directorial debut of Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka-fai as rival deputy commissioners during a hijacked-police-van crisis; it won nine Hong Kong Film Awards and spawned Cold War 2 and the Cold War 1994 prequel.
Compliance (film)
Compliance is Craig Zobel's 2012 American psychological thriller, premiered at Sundance, in which fast-food staff obey a hoax caller posing as a police officer and abuse employee Becky (Dreama Walker); based on 70 real US hoax-call cases, starring Ann Dowd.
Confession of Murder (내가 살인범이다)
Confession of Murder (내가 살인범이다, I Am the Murderer) is a 2012 South Korean action thriller directed by Jeong Byung-gil, in which a serial killer publishes an autobiography.
Cut Bank (film)
Cut Bank is a 2015 American crime thriller directed by Matt Shakman, written by Roberto Patino, starring Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, and Billy Bob Thornton; released by A24 on April 3, 2015, filmed in Alberta, Canada, not Montana.
Dark Blood
Dark Blood is an unfinished 1993 thriller directed by George Sluizer, starring River Phoenix, Jonathan Pryce, and Judy Davis. Phoenix died during production; Sluizer salvaged the footage and completed the film with narration in 2012.
Das letzte Schweigen
Das letzte Schweigen (The Silence) is Baran bo Odar's 2010 German crime thriller debut, adapted from Jan Costin Wagner's novel Das Schweigen: 23 years after Pia's murder, Sinikka vanishes at the same spot; 118 minutes, FSK 16, released 19 August 2010.