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Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's 2012 crime film starring James Franco as Alien and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as college girls who rob a restaurant, hit Florida spring break, and enter crime; A24's third release, $5M budget, $30M+ gross.
Stand Up Guys
Stand Up Guys is a 2012 American comedy crime film directed by Fisher Stevens, written by Noah Haidle, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as aging gangsters; released wide February 1, 2013, grossing $3.3 million.
Stoker (film)
Stoker (2013) is Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, a gothic psychological thriller written by Wentworth Miller, starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew Goode; released by Fox Searchlight, it grossed $12 million worldwide.
Stone (2010 film)
Stone (2010 film), John Curran drama written by Angus MacLachlan: parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) versus arsonist Gerald Creeson (Edward Norton) and wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich); limited Overture Films release, $22M budget, weak box office, mixed reviews.
Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Straw Dogs is a 2011 psychological thriller directed by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of the 1971 film and is based on the novel by Gordon Williams.
Stretch (2014 film)
Stretch (2014) is a Joe Carnahan action comedy starring Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Jessica Alba, and Ed Helms. Made for about $5 million, it was dropped by Universal from its March 2014 theatrical release and issued digitally on October 7, 2014, earning an 88% Rotten Tomatoes critics score.
Takers
Takers, formerly titled Bone Deep, is a 2010 American heist action thriller directed by John Luessenhop, starring Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, and Paul Walker as bank robbers taking one last job.
The Paperboy (2012 film)
The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime drama directed by Lee Daniels, based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, and John Cusack.
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines is Derek Cianfrance's 2013 crime drama starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes, set in Schenectady, New York. Its triptych follows a bank-robbing stunt motorcyclist, a rookie cop, and their sons 15 years later.
The Ravine of Goodbye
The Ravine of Goodbye (さよなら渓谷, Sayonara Keikoku) is a 2013 Japanese drama-mystery film by Tatsushi Omori, adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's novel, starring Yoko Maki and Shima Onishi; it won the Moscow IFF Special Jury Prize and Japan Academy Best Actress.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), Mira Nair's film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, stars Riz Ahmed as Changez, a Pakistani whose American Dream collapses after 9/11, interviewed in Lahore by Liev Schreiber's journalist.
The Robber
The Robber (Der Räuber) is a 2010 Austrian-German thriller by Benjamin Heisenberg, based on Martin Prinz's novel about marathon-runner bank robber Johann Kastenberger, "Pumpgun Ronnie"; it competed at Berlinale 2010 and won Austrian Film Awards for direction and acting.
The Roommate
The Roommate (2011) is a Screen Gems psychological thriller directed by Christian E. Christiansen, starring Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester; a college-set Single White Female-style stalker film that opened number one with $15 million despite 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Snitch Cartel
The Snitch Cartel (El cartel de los sapos) is a 2011 Colombian-Mexican crime film directed by Carlos Moreno, adapted from Andrés López López's book and the Caracol TV series, starring Manolo Cardona as a Norte del Valle cartel informant.
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件)
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件) is a 2014 Japanese suspense film by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Minato Kanae's novel, in which a cosmetics employee's murder and a missing plain colleague ignite a Twitter-fueled witch hunt.
The Stool Pigeon (线人)
The Stool Pigeon (线人, Xian Ren) is a 2010 Hong Kong crime film by Dante Lam, reuniting Nick Cheung and Nicholas Tse from The Beast Stalker; it won Tse the 30th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
The Suspect
The Suspect (용의자) is a 2013 South Korean action thriller directed by Won Shin-yun, starring Gong Yoo as abandoned North Korean agent Ji Dong-chul; released December 24, 2013, it sold about 4.13 million admissions on a $9 million budget.
The Terror Live (더 테러 라이브)
The Terror Live is a 2013 South Korean suspense thriller directed by Kim Byung-woo, in which radio anchor Yoon Young-hwa, played by Ha Jung-woo, broadcasts live with a terrorist.
The Thieves (도둑들)
The Thieves (도둑들) is a 2012 South Korean-Hong Kong heist film directed by Choi Dong-hoon, about rival thief teams stealing the $20 million 'Tear of the Sun' diamond from a Macau casino; it drew about 12.98 million Korean admissions, then a national record.
The Tourist (2010 film)
The Tourist is a 2010 romantic thriller directed and co-written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, an English-language remake of the 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer, set in Paris and Venice.
The Town (2010 film)
The Town is a 2010 American crime drama directed by Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves, about a Boston bank robber falling for his hostage.
The Tribe (Плем'я) (2014 film)
The Tribe (Плем'я) is Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's 2014 Ukrainian crime drama set in a boarding school for the deaf, performed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with no subtitles, starring deaf non-professional actors and winning the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize.
The Two Faces of January (film)
The Two Faces of January is Hossein Amini's 2014 directorial debut, a thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac as Americans entangled in murder and flight in 1962 Greece.
The Unjust (부당거래)
The Unjust (부당거래) is a 2010 South Korean crime thriller directed by Ryoo Seung-wan, starring Hwang Jung-min and Ryoo Seung-bum, about a fabricated culprit for a serial murder case.
The World of Kanako
The World of Kanako (渇き。, Kawaki) is Tetsuya Nakashima's 2014 Japanese thriller adapting Akio Fukamachi's prize-winning novel Hateshinaki Kawaki, starring Koji Yakusho as an ex-detective searching for his missing daughter, played by debutante Nana Komatsu.
The Yellow Sea (황해)
The Yellow Sea (황해, Hwanghae) is a 2010 South Korean action thriller directed and written by Na Hong-jin, his second feature after The Chaser, starring Ha Jung-woo and Kim Yun-seok.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) is Tomas Alfredson's Cold War spy thriller adapted from John le Carré's 1974 novel, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunting a Soviet mole in MI6; it won two BAFTAs from eleven nominations and earned an 85 Metascore.
Trance (2013 film)
Trance (2013) is Danny Boyle's British psychological thriller starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel, about an amnesiac art auctioneer hypnotized to reveal a stolen Goya painting's hiding place; Metascore 61, Rotten Tomatoes 69%.
Trash (2014 film)
Trash (2014) is a Stephen Daldry crime thriller, Richard Curtis's adaptation of Andy Mulligan's novel, about three Rio trash-picking teens hunted by corrupt police after finding a wallet; BAFTA-nominated, starring Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura.
Trespass (2011 film)
Trespass (2011) is a Joel Schumacher home-invasion thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a couple held hostage by thieves led by Ben Mendelsohn; it earned 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $16.8K in US theaters.