thriller
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Animal Kingdom
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick…
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
This enthralling new movie from filmmaker Derek Cianfrance (BLUE VALENTINE) is a thriller in three acts which link together to tell an engrossing story. The first part …. by far the strongest …. is the story of Luke a stunt motorcyclist in a travelling carnival who discovers he has a bad son. This tattooed covered…
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THE BIG PICTURE aka L’HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE
Paul seems to have everything. He’s a partner in a successful Law Firm in Paris. Beautiful smart wife and two young children he adores. Stunning house in the country. And he’s as handsome as hell (well he’s played by Romain Duris, need I say more). Then suddenly it all starts to fall apart. His wife…
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Barbara
Christian Petzold’s latest thriller is set in 1980 in the ‘bad old days’ of East Germany when everybody was totally paranoid as seemingly everyone was being watched. Even the watchers themselves. Barbara, a real cold fish, is a Doctor who has been banished from Berlin for some unspecified misdemeanor and forced by the Authorities to…
