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Electra (2024 film)

Electra (2024 film) by Hala Matar, also called Electra, is an American-Italian mystery thriller starring Maria Bakalova, Abigail Cowen, Jack Farthing, and Daryl Wein, released May 2, 2025 by Level 33 Entertainment.

Elle (film)

Elle (2016) is a French-language psychological thriller by Paul Verhoeven, adapted by David Birke from Philippe Djian's novel Oh..., starring Isabelle Huppert as a video-game executive who tracks her masked rapist; Cannes competition premiere, Oscar-nominated, César Best Film winner. Distinct from the 2026 Legally Blonde prequel series of the same name.

Equity (film)

Equity is a 2016 American financial thriller directed by Meera Menon, written by Amy Fox, and starring Anna Gunn as investment banker Naomi Bishop. The first female-driven Wall Street film, produced by Broad Street Pictures and released by Sony Pictures Classics after its 2016 Sundance premiere.

Eternal Wave

Eternal Wave (密战, aka 新永不消逝的电波) is a 2017 Chinese spy action film directed by Billy Chung, a loose remake of the 1958 classic, starring Aaron Kwok and Zhao Liying as underground radio agents in 1937 Japanese-occupied Shanghai; released November 3, 2017, grossing $1,427,082.

Exposed (2016 film)

Exposed (2016), originally Daughter of God, is an American crime drama starring Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas, credited to pseudonymous director Declan Dale after Gee Malik Linton disowned the studio's recut of his film.

Finding Steve McQueen

Finding Steve McQueen is a 2019 American heist comedy-drama directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Travis Fimmel, Forest Whitaker, and William Fichtner, loosely based on the 1972 United California Bank robbery targeting Nixon's $30 million slush fund.

First Love (2019 film)

First Love (Hatsukoi, 初恋) is a 2019 Japanese-British crime film by Takashi Miike, starring Masataka Kubota and Sakurako Konishi, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2019.

Focus (2015 film)

Focus is a 2015 American romantic con-artist caper film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Will Smith as con man Nicky Spurgeon and Margot Robbie as novice grifter Jess Barrett.

Following (그녀가 죽었다) (2024 film)

Following (그녀가 죽었다) is a 2024 South Korean mystery thriller directed and written by Kim Sewi, who makes his feature debut in the film. It stars Byun Yo-han and Shin Hae-sun.

Forgotten (2017 film)

Forgotten (기억의 밤, Night of Memory) is a 2017 South Korean mystery thriller directed by Jang Hang-jun, in which a man's abducted brother returns after 19 days seeming a stranger.

Fractured (2019 film)

Fractured is a 2019 Netflix psychological thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Alan B. McElroy, starring Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe, and Lucy Capri; a father searches a hospital for his vanished wife and daughter.

Frank & Lola

Frank & Lola is a 2016 psychosexual noir romance, Matthew Ross's directorial debut, starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots as a Las Vegas chef and designer; premiered at Sundance, released December 9, 2016.

Gangnam Blues (강남 1970)

Gangnam Blues (강남 1970), released internationally as Gangnam 1970, is a 2015 South Korean action crime film by Yoo Ha, starring Lee Min-ho and Kim Rae-won as gangster rivals in 1970s Seoul.

Godspeed (一路顺风)

Godspeed (一路順風, Yi lu shun feng) is Chung Mong-hong's 2016 Taiwanese road film in which drug courier Na Dow hails Michael Hui's taxi for a delivery south. Eight Golden Horse nominations, one win; 2017 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Cross-Strait film.

Gold (2016 film)

Gold is a 2016 American adventure drama film directed by Stephen Gaghan and starring Matthew McConaughey as prospector Kenny Wells, loosely based on the Bre-X mining scandal.

Good Time (film)

Good Time (2017) is a crime thriller by Josh and Benny Safdie starring Robert Pattinson as Connie Nikas, who spends one night trying to free his brother after a botched Queens bank robbery; Cannes competition premiere, A24 release, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Greta (2018 film)

Greta (2018 film), also released as The Widow, is a Neil Jordan psychological thriller starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz, about a lonely widow who stalks the young woman who returned her planted handbag. Premiered at TIFF 2018; released by Focus Features March 1, 2019.

Gringo (2018 film)

Gringo (2018) is a dark comedy crime film directed by Nash Edgerton, starring David Oyelowo as Harold Soyinka, with Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley. Released March 9, 2018 by STX, it grossed about $11 million worldwide and scored 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Guns & Moses

Guns & Moses is a 2024 American neo-Western action thriller directed by Salvador Litvak, starring Mark Feuerstein as a Chabad rabbi turned gunfighter, inspired by the 2019 Chabad of Poway shooting and released July 18, 2025.

Hangman (2017 film)

Hangman (2017 film), directed by Johnny Martin, is an American crime thriller starring Al Pacino, Karl Urban, and Brittany Snow about detectives chasing a serial killer staging murders around the hangman word game; released December 22, 2017 by Saban Films, it holds a 5% Tomatometer and Metascore 31.

Heist (2015 film)

Heist (The Bus 657 Heist) is a 2015 American action crime thriller directed by Scott Mann, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Robert De Niro, and Dave Bautista; a failed casino robbery leads to a bus hijacking. Released November 13, 2015; 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Hell or High Water (film)

Hell or High Water is a 2016 American crime drama directed by David Mackenzie, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges as Texas brothers rob a bank.

Here Now (film)

Here Now (Fino alla fine) is a 2024 Italian thriller directed by Gabriele Muccino, starring Elena Kampouris as an American whose last 24 hours in Palermo spiral into a fight for survival; released in Italy October 2024 and the US May 2025. Distinct from The Here Now Project documentary and I Live Here Now.

Hidden Blade (无名)

Hidden Blade (无名, Anonymous) is Cheng Er's 2023 Chinese spy thriller starring Tony Leung and Wang Yibo, set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai; it earned 931 million yuan in China and a Golden Rooster Best Feature Film nomination.

Hidden Face

Hidden Face (히든 페이스) is a 2024 South Korean erotic thriller by Kim Dae-woo, remaking the 2011 Colombia-Spain film La cara oculta; starring Song Seung-heon, Cho Yeo-jeong, and Park Ji-hyun, it passed one million admissions.

Hidden Man (邪不压正)

Hidden Man (邪不压正, Xia Yin) is Jiang Wen's 2018 action comedy-drama, the third film of his Republican Era trilogy, adapted from Zhang Beihai's novel, starring Eddie Peng, Liao Fan, Zhou Yun, and Xu Qing, released July 13, 2018, with a Douban score that fell from 8.2 to 7.2.

Honor Thy Father

Honor Thy Father (2015) is a Filipino crime drama by Erik Matti, starring John Lloyd Cruz, about a couple ruined by a pyramid scheme who plot to rob their church; distinct from the 1973 Bonanno film and Talese book.

Hot Summer Nights (film)

Hot Summer Nights is a 2018 A24 coming-of-age crime drama, Elijah Bynum's directorial debut, starring Timothée Chalamet as a teenager dealing drugs on 1991 Cape Cod; released July 2018, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Hounds of Love (film)

Hounds of Love is Ben Young's 2016 Australian psychological thriller debut, starring Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, and Stephen Curry, about a Perth teen abducted by a serial-killing couple in 1987; it premiered at Venice Days and won festival awards.

Hustlers (film)

Hustlers is a 2019 American crime comedy-drama film directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez as strippers who drug and defraud wealthy Wall Street clients.