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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.
Man on a Ledge
Man on a Ledge is a 2012 American heist thriller directed by Asger Leth, starring Sam Worthington as an ex-cop whose ledge stand-off covers a diamond heist.
Marshland
Marshland (La isla mínima) is a 2014 Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodríguez set in 1980 in the Guadalquivir marshes, where two opposed Madrid detectives hunt a killer; it won ten Goya Awards.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) is Sean Durkin's debut psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as a woman fleeing a cult led by John Hawkes' Patrick, released by Fox Searchlight, a Cannes Un Certain Regard and Sundance award-winning film.
Modus Anomali
Modus Anomali (Ritual) is a 2012 Indonesian psychological thriller written and directed by Joko Anwar, produced by Sheila Timothy for LifeLike Pictures. Rio Dewanto plays a man hunting his missing family through woods planted with alarm clocks; premiered at SXSW 2012.
Monga (艋舺)
Monga (艋舺) is a 2010 Taiwanese gangster film directed by Doze Niu, set in 1980s Wanhua, Taipei. It earned NT$260 million, won Golden Horse Best Actor for Ethan Ruan, and screened at Berlin's Panorama.
Motorway (车手)
Motorway (車手) is a 2012 Hong Kong car-chase thriller directed by Soi Cheang, produced by Johnnie To, starring Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong, and Guo Xiaodong; it won the Golden Horse Best Action Design award.
Nameless Gangster (범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대)
Nameless Gangster (범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대) is a 2012 South Korean crime film directed by Yoon Jong-bin, starring Choi Min-sik as a corrupt customs officer in 1980s Busan.
New World (뉴월드) (2013 film)
New World (신세계) is a 2013 South Korean crime-action film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung, starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, and Hwang Jung-min, about an undercover cop torn between police and the Goldmoon syndicate; it drew 4.69 million admissions.
No Good Deed (2014 film)
No Good Deed (2014) is a Screen Gems home-invasion thriller directed by Sam Miller, starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson; it opened #1 with $24.5M and grossed $54.3M worldwide despite poor reviews.
Omar (عمر) (2013 film)
Omar (عمر) is a 2013 Palestinian drama-thriller by Hany Abu-Assad about a West Bank baker pressured to inform after a soldier's killing; Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
One for the Money (film)
One for the Money is a 2012 American comedy crime film starring Katherine Heigl. It is based on Janet Evanovich's novel and follows Stephanie Plum, a bail bond recovery agent.
Out of the Furnace
Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American crime drama directed by Scott Cooper, starring Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as brothers in a declining Pennsylvania steel town; also called a Deer Hunter-style revenge film, 116 minutes, $11.3M US gross.
Outrage (2010 film)
Outrage (アウトレイジ, Autoreiji) is a 2010 Japanese yakuza film written, directed by, and starring Takeshi Kitano as gangster Otomo amid betrayal among rival Tokyo crime families.
Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain is a 2013 Michael Bay action comedy for Paramount starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as the real Sun Gym Gang, Miami bodybuilders whose 1994–95 kidnapping, extortion, and murder spree inspired the dark comedy.
Pale Moon
Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki) is a 2014 Japanese crime drama directed by Daihachi Yoshida, starring Rie Miyazawa as a bank employee who embezzles to fund an affair.
Paranoia (2013 film)
Paranoia (2013) is Robert Luketic's corporate-espionage thriller starring Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, and Amber Heard, adapted from Joseph Finder's novel; released August 16, 2013 by Relativity Media, it earned 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed about $16 million on a $35 million budget.
Peacock (2010 film)
Peacock (2010) is an American psychological thriller directed by Michael Lander, starring Cillian Murphy as bank clerk John Skillpa, whose female alter ego Emma is exposed by a train derailment in Peacock, Nebraska; released straight to DVD by Lionsgate.
Perfect Sisters
Perfect Sisters (2014), also released as Deadly Sisters, is a Canadian true-crime drama directed by Stanley M. Brooks, starring Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley, and Mira Sorvino, based on the 2003 "Bathtub Girls" matricide case in Mississauga, Ontario via Bob Mitchell's book The Class Project.
Pieta (피에타)
Pieta (피에타) is Kim Ki-duk's 2012 South Korean drama about a Seoul debt collector and a woman claiming to be his mother; it won the 69th Venice Golden Lion, a first for a Korean director.
Rampart (film)
Rampart (2011) is Oren Moverman's crime drama co-written with James Ellroy, starring Woody Harrelson as LAPD officer Dave Brown; limited release February 10, 2012, grossing $1,567,905 worldwide.
Reasonable Doubt (2014 film)
Reasonable Doubt is a 2014 legal thriller directed by Peter Howitt (credited as Peter P. Croudins), written by Peter A. Dowling, starring Dominic Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson, and Gloria Reuben, released January 17, 2014 by Lionsgate, grossing $602,802.
Runner Runner
Runner Runner is a 2013 American crime thriller directed by Brad Furman, starring Justin Timberlake as a Princeton student drawn into an online gambling tycoon's operation.
Savages (2012 film)
Savages is a 2012 American crime thriller directed by Oliver Stone, based on Don Winslow's novel about Laguna Beach marijuana growers whose girlfriend is kidnapped by a cartel.
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh, his second feature after In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson.
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Dancer (2012), James Marsh thriller adapted by Tom Bradby from his novel: Andrea Riseborough's IRA informer Collette McVeigh recruited by Clive Owen's MI5 officer in 1990s Belfast; Sundance premiere, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sleepless Night (2011 film)
Sleepless Night (Nuit blanche) is a 2011 French-Belgian-Luxembourg action thriller directed by Frédéric Jardin, starring Tomer Sisley as a corrupt cop recovering stolen cocaine in a nightclub to save his kidnapped son; remade in 2017 with Jamie Foxx.
Snowtown (film)
Snowtown (2011), Justin Kurzel's debut feature also released as The Snowtown Murders, dramatizes the John Bunting 'bodies in barrels' killings; it won Cannes Critics' Week Special Mention and six AACTA Awards.
So Undercover
So Undercover is a 2012 action comedy directed by Tom Vaughan, starring Miley Cyrus as private eye Molly Morris undercover in a college sorority for the FBI; straight-to-DVD in the US, 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Son of a Gun (film)
Son of a Gun is a 2014 Australian heist thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Julius Avery, starring Ewan McGregor as crime boss Brendan Lynch, Brenton Thwaites as protege JR, and Alicia Vikander; 108 minutes, MA15+, released October 2014.