Movie Listing: Thriller - All

American Psycho

Tagline:

Killer looks

Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment

Release Date: Friday, April 14, 2000

American Psycho is a 2000 thriller film directed by Mary Harron based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name. Though predominantly a psycho thriller, the film also blends elements of horror, satire, and black comedy. It stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, with Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, and Samantha Mathis. The film focuses on Wall Street yuppie Patrick Bateman (Bale), whose mental instability and blood lust lead him to serial killing.

Rating: Rated R

Black Swan

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Release Date: Friday, December 3, 2010

Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well.

Rating: Rated R

Buried

Tagline:

170,000 SQ miles of desert. 90 minutes of Oxygen. No way out.

Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment

Release Date: Friday, October 8, 2010

Paul Conroy, a government contracted truck driver, awakens buried alive six feet underground with nothing but a lighter, a knife and a cell phone. Though he has no recollection as to how he got there, he soon starts to remember what has happened to him as he races to escape his impending death.

Rating: Not Rated

Casino Royale

Tagline:

Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning.

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Release Date: Friday, November 17, 2006

Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Devil

Tagline:

Bad Things Happen For A Reason

Studio: Universal Pictures

Release Date: Friday, September 17, 2010

Set in an office building, the film follows five strangers who become trapped in an elevator and, after several terrifying and inexplicable events occur, begin to turn against each other as they come to suspect that one of them is, in fact, the Devil. Based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan, Devil will be the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy, which involves the supernatural within modern urban society.

Rating: Rated R

Fright Night

Tagline:

There are some very good reasons to be afraid of the dark.

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Release Date: Friday, August 2, 1985

Senior Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school, Amy (Amanda Bearse). In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend, Evil Ed (Stephen Geoffreys). But trouble arrives when Jerry (Chris Sarandon) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Dorothy Fielding), doesn’t notice.

Rating: Rated R

Jaws

Tagline:

Amity Island had everything. Clear skies. Gentle surf. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It was the perfect feeding ground.

Studio: Universal Pictures

Release Date: Friday, June 20, 1975

Director Steven Spielberg virtually invented the summer blockbuster with this white-knuckle adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel about an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of fictional Amity Island. John Williams's legendary score punctuates the tension as the police chief (Roy Scheider), an oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

The movie went on to spawn 3 sequels

6/16/1978 Jaws 2
7/22/1983 Jaws 3-D
7/17/1987 Jaws 4: The Revenge

Rating: Rated PG

Limitless

Tagline:

What If a Pill Could Make You Rich And Powerful?

Studio: Relativity Media / ROGUE Pictures

Release Date: Friday, March 18, 2011

Limitless is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unpublished writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret smart drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Memento

Tagline:

Some memories are best forgotten.

Release Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2000

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his younger brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori". It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories. During the opening credits, which portrays the end of the story, it is shown that Leonard kills Teddy (Joe Pantoliano). The film suggests that this killing is in vengeance for the rape and murder of his wife (Jorja Fox) based on information provided by Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss).

Rating: Rated R

Mission: Impossible

Tagline:

Expect the Impossible

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: Tuesday, May 21, 1996

After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more with the original show than the occasional self-destructing message and the name of team leader Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The film focuses not on Phelps but his protégé, Ethan Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise), who becomes a fugitive after taking the blame for a botched operation.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Mission: Impossible 2

Tagline:

Expect the impossible again

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: Sunday, May 21, 2000

Pulled away from his vacation, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is given his latest assignment, where Ethan is assigned to recruit Nyah Nordoff-Hall, a beautiful thief and require her skills. After recruiting Nyah, Ethan's boss, Mission Commander Swanbeck gives Ethan the assignment. Renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose, has killed a old friend of Ethan's, Russian scientist Dr. Nekhorvich, and has stolen "Chimera" a engineered virus and "Bellerophon" the cure, Dr. Nekhorvich create and was carrying to Atlanta, whilst accompanied by Sean who was disguised as Ethan.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Mission: Impossible III

Tagline:

The Mission Begins 05:05:06.

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: Friday, May 5, 2006

Super-spy Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty to trains new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team: his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen. They are to rescue one of his very own trainees, Lindsey who was kidnapped while on a surveillance detail of Davian. It soon becomes evident that Davian is well-protected, well-connected, and downright malicious.

Rating: Rated PG-13

Patriot Games

Tagline:

Let the Games Begin.

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: Friday, June 5, 1992

In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and deciding to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), everything appears to be back to normal; then all hell breaks loose.

Rating: Rated PG-13

SALT

Tagline:

Who is Salt?

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Release Date: Friday, July 23, 2010

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a KGB sleeper agent plotting to assassinate the President of the United States. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"

Rating: Rated R

SHUTTER ISLAND

Tagline:

Someone is Missing

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

In 1954, Federal Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, from Seattle travel to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient there, Rachel Solando. She had been sectioned at the institution for dangerous criminals at Ashcliffe Hospital, because she drowned her three kids. Teddy is a veteran WWII soldier, traumatized by the war experience in the liberation of the Duchan concentration camp and the loss of his beloved wife in a criminal fire.

Rating: Rated R

Silence of the Lambs

Tagline:

To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Release Date: Thursday, February 14, 1991

A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lector, a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life.

Rating: Rated R

Source Code

Tagline:

Make Every Second Count

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Release Date: Friday, April 1, 2011

Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes with a jolt to find himself on a commuter train heading into Chicago. Although the other passengers all seem to know him, he has absolutely no idea where – or even who – he is. The last thing Colter remembers is flying a helicopter mission in Iraq, but here he is in someone else’s life going through someone else’s morning commute. Before he can do anything an express train zooms by on the opposite track and a bomb explodes, seemingly killing Colter and all the other passengers.

Rating: Rated PG-13

SPLICE

Tagline:

She's Not Human... Not Entirely

Studio: Warner Bros

Release Date: Friday, June 4, 2010

Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) are two young scientists who have been given the job of running a genetic laboratory at a large corporation to develop a protein using animal gene splicing from several different species. To speed up the process, they secretly take a chance and add human DNA to the experiment. What they get is a new organism which Clive wants to destroy, but Elsa convinces him to let it live a little longer. As the creature grows bigger, you begin to see a new animal species.

Rating: Rated R

SURROGATES

Tagline:

How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?

Release Date: Friday, September 25, 2009

In the not too distant future, technology allows humans to live their lives through robots they call surrogates. Humans have, in effect, cocooned themselves in their homes, never venturing outside. They explore life, in all it's aspects, through their Surrogates. Tom Greer and his partner are FBI agents assigned to investigate the destruction of two Surrogates that has also caused the unthinkable: their human hosts were also killed. The use of Surrogates is not universally endorsed, some humans live in technology and machine-free zones.

Rating: Rated PG-13

The Bourne Identity

Tagline:

He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.

Studio: Universal Pictures

Release Date: Friday, June 14, 2002

Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fisherman who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted. On a stormy night, a young man is pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea by the crew of a fishing boat.

Rating: Rated PG-13