thriller

  • A Most Wanted Man

    In Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s take on John le Carré’s spy thriller we are very much aware of who ‘the most wanted man’ is, but like Gunther Bachmann, a German Intelligence Officer in Hamburg, we never know why he has earned this title. Gunther is very much the ‘good man’ in this intricate web of international spy/terrorist…

  • THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH aka ‘La femme du Vème’

    When Tom an American College Professor and one-time author arrives in Paris he tells the Immigration Officer he is there to visit his wife and child.  What he doesn’t reveal is that she has a Court Restraining Order out and refuses to let him see their daughter. When Tom stalks the girl the police are…

  • Bethlehem

    Bethlehem

    This tense taut thriller is about yet another deadly incident in the ongoing struggle in the Middle East and was  written by a former Israeli Secret Agent and a Palestinian journalist.  Yet despite its bipartisan credentials the overwhelming feeling that you come away after watching ‘Bethlehem’ is that the world is split into different camps…

  • HUMAN CAPITAL aka Il Capitale Umano

    On a snowy wintry night in a small town in the suburbs of Milan, after he has worked at an Awards Evening for the local school, a waiter jumps on his bike to make his way home.  However before he can get there, he is run over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves him at…