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A MOST WANTED MAN evokes the best of the Cold War thrillers of the 1960s.

Atomic Blonde dances on the razor's edge between these two franchises while borrowing a great deal from the likes of director David Leitch's previous film John Wick and the slower burning Cold War thrillers of the past.

Not exact matches

This structure is the basis of films from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, from thrillers and dramas to romcoms.

Star Wars offers tasty morsels of the western, monster movie, swashbuckler, historical epic and sci - fi thriller all in one package.

There are documentaries, thrillers, love stories, war stories, and even pornographic movies (I'm looking at you, Song of Solomon).

The race was a thriller but a political war between FISA and FOCA meant that it was stripped of championship status

This dramatic spy thriller is inspired by real - life CIA agent Valerie Plame (Watts) who, in the lead - up to the Iraq war, is searching for evidence of nuclear weapons.

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1966 thriller Torn Curtain, Paul Newman plays physicist Michael Armstrong, who is working on Gamma 5, an antimissile project that «will produce a defensive weapon that will make all nuclear weapons obsolete and abolish the terror of anuclear war.»

Homeland is an American spy thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War (Original He's the matchmaker on If You Are The One, has noodle shops in Sydney and Melbourne and enough charm to be a star in his own right for a legion of fans

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

A complex espionage thriller that makes impeccable use of a careful pace to stretch the tension to its maximum and an appropriately dark cinematography to recreate the paranoia of the»70s and the Cold War maneuvers, while Gary Oldman underacts in a perfect performance.

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.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

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

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.»

Playing like a prequel to All the President's Men (the final coda nods towards the opening of Alan J Pakula's masterpiece), Steven Spielberg's Vietnam - era thriller recalls the 1971 revelations of the Pentagon Papers — a devastating internal report that detailed how «the White House has been lying about the war».

In Mr. Spielberg's hands, that decision becomes a ticktock thriller about the freedom of the press, the White House's war on that constitutional right and the middle - aged woman who defended freedom in a fabulous gold caftan.

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.

A vengeful game of one - upmanship turns deadly in this urban thriller about a hotshot young attorney (Ben Affleck) and a recovering alcoholic (Samuel L. Jackson) whose minor fender - bender devastates both of their lives and quickly leads to an escalating war of dirty tricks and manipulation.

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

In 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Bees.

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).

The Troubles have rarely been more troubling onscreen than they are in «' 71,» a vivid, shivery survival thriller that turns the red - brick residential streets of Belfast into a war zone of unconscionable peril.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

A solid piece of storytelling that doesn't pander, skips the usual POW stereotypes and allows the film to work reasonably well as an epic of war, a survival story, a prison thriller, a murder mystery and a courtroom drama.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

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.

Announced scripted projects in development include John Fusco's historical action - adventure epic Marco Polo and an adaptation of Daniel Stashower's bestselling Civil War - era spy thriller The Hour Of Periof Daniel Stashower's bestselling Civil War - era spy thriller The Hour Of PeriOf Peril.

The Wall avoids the missteps of those recent war films by eliding politics and maudlin backstories for its characters, instead using cat - and - mouse thriller tactics to depict warfare on a purely visceral level.

In that psychological thriller, a platoon of American infantrymen was captured during the Korean War.

Next weekend sees the release of Zac Efron's EDM movie We Are Your Friends, the faith - based War Room, and the Owen Wilson starring action thriller No Escape, which leaves plenty of room for Compton to squeeze out its third victory in a row.

Eleven years after drawing a few boos and zero prizes for her competition entry «Marie Antoinette,» Sofia Coppola won directing honors for «The Beguiled,» her slyly feminist adaptation of a Civil War - era novel that previously inspired Don Siegel's 1971 thriller starring Clint Eastwood.

Variety has revealed that Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) is set to write and direct Wasp Network, a spy thriller based upon Fernando Morais» book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War.

Denis Villeneuve's gleaming thriller is arguably one of the year's best - made movies, but it's so glib and superficial in its treatment of the war on drugs — and the collateral damage left in its wake — as to border on exploitation.

Disney has debuted the first trailer for Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, formerly his «Untitled Cold War» thriller, starring Tom Hanks, an American lawyer recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union.

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.

Of half a handful of new release movies in China this weekend, only Chinese romantic fantasy «How Long Will I Love U» and American horror thriller «A Quiet Place» made any noise behind still dominant «Avengers: Infinity War.&raquOf half a handful of new release movies in China this weekend, only Chinese romantic fantasy «How Long Will I Love U» and American horror thriller «A Quiet Place» made any noise behind still dominant «Avengers: Infinity War.&raquof new release movies in China this weekend, only Chinese romantic fantasy «How Long Will I Love U» and American horror thriller «A Quiet Place» made any noise behind still dominant «Avengers: Infinity War.»

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jason Statham and Jet Li Square - Off in Martial Arts Misadventure You already have a good idea what to expect of War when you hear that Jason Statham and Jet Li are the co-stars of this gruesome revenge thriller.

Priest, a western - fused post-apocalyptic thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires.

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.

Whatever one might think of Allied, a glossy World War Two espionage thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as secret agents who try to forge a viable family life in the midst of a world on fire, it's worth celebrating that Robert Zemeckis is firmly dedicated to filming flesh - and - blood people again.

Ahead of its UK TV premiere tomorrow, a new trailer has arrived online for director Tom Harper's thriller War Book, which revolves around a group of civil servants take part in a regular role - playing game to practise their response to a nuclear explosion leading to all - out nuclear war and stars Sophie Okonedo, Phoebe Fox, Ben Chaplin, -LSB-.War Book, which revolves around a group of civil servants take part in a regular role - playing game to practise their response to a nuclear explosion leading to all - out nuclear war and stars Sophie Okonedo, Phoebe Fox, Ben Chaplin, -LSB-.war and stars Sophie Okonedo, Phoebe Fox, Ben Chaplin, -LSB-...]

The Shape of Water also excels as a romantic comedy and cold war thriller.

Despite no previous acting experience, Katie Jarvis is the heart and troubled soul of Fish Tank, the gripping coming - of - age drama from Andrea Arnold and the most exciting new release in a week also highlighted by the arrival of Storm, Hans - Christian Schmid's thriller about crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and the on - screen return of Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness.

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

Yet that stylistic clarity is as much a product of the film's often strained cinematic high points, such as when Mosab is told «welcome to the slaughter house» by a prison guard, a line clearly inserted to elicit a thriller - order ethos that's too easy a gesture to the ubiquitous violence of the war's innumerous military and civilian conflicts.

Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan has signed on to lead a new World War Two drama amid rumours he is quitting the erotic thriller franchise...

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.

Here is something most neo-noir miss: the classic noir weren't just super-stylized thrillers or sex dramas (though many were), they were psychological portraits of a nation wounded by war and horrified by the dawning Atomic Age.