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It is a vigorously directed, tightly paced war thriller with nothing less at stake than saving the world from Adolf Hitler.

So does The Jackal manage to pull off the duty of being a post-Cold War thriller with swatches of action thrown in?

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The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

For a nation at war with its own values, Fair Game is a compelling, pertinent and scrupulously true political thriller in the honorable tradition of «All the President's Men.»

A gripping thriller with themes and characters that most networks are uncomfortable portraying in their shows such as jihad, Islam and the War on Terror.

With its warring factions, citizen uprisings, guerrilla insurgencies, political intrigue, bloody warfare, family tensions, and homoerotic subtext, Coriolanus is one of the year's best political thrillers.

On the surface, «Red Sparrow» may seem similar to last summer's «Atomic Blonde», another Cold War spy thriller with a female lead.

After the B - thrillers Power 98 (1996) and My Brother's War (1997), Garth focused more exclusively on the last several seasons of 90210 and starting a family with actor - husband Peter Facinelli, whom she met while filming An Unfinished Affair (1996).

There's a terrific script at the heart of this World War II thriller, with a blast of complex romance alongside some dark Hitchcockian twists.

Jessica Chastain's female spy thriller «355» sparked a heated bidding war, with Universal emerging as the victor in an eight - figure deal.

Now she's adding war movies to her repertoire with the drone - strike thriller Eye...

Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller is largely in the vein of his Lincoln — that is, more concerned with the intimacies and intricacies of negotiation than with high - octane action.

Pike recently wrapped production on the World War II thriller «HHhH» as well as «A United Kingdom» with David Oyelowo.

In between making blockbusters for the Jurassic and Star Wars franchises, Trevorrow invests this unconventional drama - cum - thriller with plenty of heart, eliciting terrific performances from his central cast.

Hadi Hajaig follows his low - budget, noir thriller Puritan with Cleanskin, a tense tale of terrorism set in London, which pits two individuals from either side of the terror war divide against each other.

Although Avengers: Infinity War is still going strong at the box office, you can also choose from the new thriller, Breaking In, starring Gabrielle Union, or the comedy Life of the Party with Melissa McCarthy.

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Goodman's performance in 10 Cloverfield Lane was Acadamy Award worthy and we're excited to see him go to war with extraterrestrials in this new thriller.

However, «The Monuments Men,» also directed by Clooney, looks tonally very different from those relatively serious - minded political thrillers, with the rather fine trailer showcasing an unusually gentle, humorous tone for a film about World War II.

So, Guillermo del Toro's Cold War - era fantasy B - movie romance thriller The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a woman who falls in love with a scaled creature kept in a water tank in the research facility she works at, has been named Best Picture at this year's Oscars.

Director: Steven Spielberg Running time: 141 minutes Rating: 12A Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller, starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer tasked with mediating a spy swap between the US and Russia.

After twenty years of film - making defined by gritty Batman movies, twisty crime thrillers, and trippy science fiction, Christopher Nolan again re-invents himself with what is on the surface is a gripping war movie, but in actuality an exercise in...

Now storming through cinemas worldwide after claiming the US box office crown last weekend, the World War II tank - crew thriller «Fury» is an old - school war movie that attempts to update the genre with a moreWar II tank - crew thriller «Fury» is an old - school war movie that attempts to update the genre with a morewar movie that attempts to update the genre with a more...

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

World War Z takes a calculable, routine zombie script (take your pick from any of the «Dead» movies) and molds it with a thriller where a protagonist has to laboriously unearth a fixture to a global catastrophe (think «Contagion») to create a must - see summer blockbuster.

The London Film Festival wrapped up this week with Brad Pitt leading a charge through Leicester Square for the red carpet premiere of his World War II tank thriller Fury, accompanied by his crewmates Shia...

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

The movie is a post-apocalyptic thriller about a small - town girl (Robbie) who lives alone on a farm in the only valley with breathable air in the wake of nuclear war.

9:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m.): «The Fallen Sparrow» (Richard Wallace, 1943) John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slezak in an anti-Fascist thriller, with a Spanish Civil War backdrop.

This month's list includes comedies starring Melissa McCarthy and Jane Fonda, a thriller with Margot Robbie and the latest «Star Wars» movie.

The true - life thriller was one of the films we tipped to start a bidding war and with the distribution company negotiating for multiple territories, first time filmmaker John Krokidas must be feeling real good.

2011 only had two new Christmas Day releases: Steven Spielberg's «War Horse» and the thriller «The Darkest Hour» (not to be confused with the upcoming Gary Oldman Winston Churchill drama).

With a month to go until its UK release, a new poster has arrived online for writer - director Sean Ellis» upcoming World War II thriller Anthropoid, featuring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Anthropoid One of the most terrifying and thrilling stories of World War II, ANTHROPOID follows two soldiers -LSB-...]

Strong word is Joe Wright has emerged as a front - runner and has an established relationship with Focus and Universal having directed period dramas PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ANNA KARENINA, as well as romantic war drama ATONEMENT and action - thriller HANNA.

Acclaimed director Denis Villeneueve explores the war against the Mexican drug cartels with the action thriller Sicario, which topped one of our writers» individual favourite lists and claims # 9 in our countdown.

Written and directed with auteur - ish panache by Gideon Raff (who also exec - produced on Homeland), Prisoners of War - or Hatufim in Hebrew - is less the labyrinthine thriller, more a skilful and probing analysis of loss and separation.

The trailer, and the final poster (also below), feature quotes from Martin Scorsese praising the «audacious» concept of this thriller about Civil War confederates who end up trapped in a field filled with mushrooms.

The story blends monster movie with fairy tale, specifically Beauty and the Beast, with its Cold War thriller and underdog striking back.

This week's releases include true war stories; a magical animated adventure; a mind - bending thriller; a horror movie with real - life connections; and a classic family drama.

Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline - fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control.

The following weekend bolsters up with Kate Mara war drama «Megan Leavey,» the Sam Elliott drama «The Hero,» and horror - thriller «Camera Obscura» all on limited release.

Deadline is reporting that Paul Rudd has signed on to star in The Catcher Was a Spy, a World War II thriller from director Ben Lewin (The Sessions), which is based upon the bestselling book from Nicholas Dawidoff, with Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) penning the script.

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's bleak, taut thriller Sicario is one of the best films of the year (read my full review here), but it presents a stark and candid portrait of the U.S.'s response to violence with more violence, specifically in the case of the War on Drugs.

The 38 - year - old actor plays Cold War - era spy David Percival in the action thriller alongside Charlize as Lorraine Broughton and James admitted his character can not compete with Charlize's in physical combat.

In this thriller, James McAvoy stars as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man afflicted with two dozen personalities, some of which wage an internal war against the others for control of Kevin and the release of a powerful entity known as The Beast.

A postmodern Cold War thriller that pits the Russians against England's MI6, Our Kind of Traitor is like a B - roll James Bond flick stripped of most of its action set - pieces, yet imbued with a plot and characters more sophisticated than the average 007 fare.

The studio won a heated bidding war with several other studios for this thriller about an American family who are in the middle of an Asian coup.

In addition, he is involved in three projects that are currently in pre-production: psychological thriller You Belong To Me (with Zach Efron), Sly Stallone's The Expendables 3, and the long awaited Star Wars VII (directed by J.J. Abrams).

Far more interesting (as usual) are the films in limited release, starting with the Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Black Book (# 20) Leave it to director Paul Verhoeven to make an erotic thriller set in World War II that flies by at nearly two and a half hours with smooth transitioning fast paced scenes.