Sentences with phrase «by crime thriller»

«Armored Car Robbery» (1950, Richard Fleischer) One of the best of the cheapo non-arty B's, by crime thriller ace Richard Fleischer.

Not exact matches

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

Inspired by the upcoming Drafthouse Films French crime thriller, THE CONNECTION - releasing this summer - this limited batch beer will be part of Odell's «Bridge Series,» available in stores and on tap starting in May, including at Alamo Drafthouse locations in Texas, Colorado, and Missouri.

On holiday I usually alternate between fiction - light thrillers by Dan Brown or Robert Goddard or crime novels along with some nonfi ction.

Jonathan Glazer, who directed the wonderfully funny crime thriller «Sexy Beast» and the ridiculously morose Nicole Kidman vehicle «Birth,» is working very loosely from a well - known novel by Michel Faber.

Despite good performances, this attempt to intertwine a crime thriller with a love triangle never gels... Fans of Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise, and A Flash of Green are likely to feel disappointed by this decidedly lesser effort.

«I, Tonia» also takes on the themes of a psychological thriller, a crime story, one that involves Tonya Harding, a top - flight, Olympic - level figure skater who was banned from skating for life by a federal judge who found her guilty of interfering with a prosecution.

The Departed comes by its puzzle pieces honestly — the movie, with an outstanding script by Kingdom of Heaven screenwriter William Monahan, is a relatively direct adaptation of Infernal Affairs, a great 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller steeped in Chinese conundrum and Hong Kong aesthetics.

This section also sees the climax to remarkable story: the inclusion of the micro-budget crime thriller Black Pond, directed by Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley.

Robert Davi turns in a killer performance in Ariel Vromen's crime thriller, The Iceman, portraying Leo Marks, a character inspired by Anthony Gaggi, the captain of the Gambino crime family.

Freeman's current movie in theaters is Now You See Me, also directed by Louis Leterrier, a crime thriller about a group of magicians who use their skills to pull off bank heists in the middle of performances.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: Debra Granik's blend of low - budget regional realism and crime thriller (adapted from the novel by Daniel Woodrell) is an absolute knockout, for me the narrative film of the festival so far.

«Gangster Squad» is a deliberately retro crime thriller about the rise and fall of Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn with such twisted relish that at times he resembles a gargoyle — or maybe Gollum.

The setup for this thriller is pretty straightfoward: Victor (Colin Farrell), is hired by a young woman (Rapace) to kill underground crime lord Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard) in New York City to settle a personal score.

One could, if one was being kind, assume that the makers of Gringo were aiming for that elusive jokey crime thriller tone so brilliantly achieved by Midnight Run.

A number of other Cannes contenders were also picked up for distribution during the festival, including Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego's crime thriller «Birds of Passage,» which went to The Orchard and the Mads Mikkelsen - starring survival drama «Arctic,» which was bought early in the fest by Bleecker Street.

The plot of Married Life, based on the British fifties - era pulp thriller «Five Roundabouts to Heaven» and set in 1949 Seattle (though the city is never actually identified, to the best of my recall), sounds like a seedy Hollywood B&W crime melodrama of cheating husbands and seductive sirens and the comforts of suburban life corrupted by lust and greed.

«Django Unchained» stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio may reunite for a crime thriller set up by the WB's newly - appointed head of features Greg Silverman, says Deadline.

Only God Forgives (R for profanity, sexuality, gruesome images and graphic violence) Ryan Gosling stars in this grisly crime thriller, set in Bangkok, about a drug dealer pressured by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge the death of his brother (Tom Burke) while in the custody of a crooked police officer (Vithaya Pansringarm).

Dakota Johnson is set to join Andrew Garfield in the Los Angeles set noir crime thriller, Under the Silver Lake directed and written by David Robert Mitchell.

After the usual internship in music video, Mr. Fuqua made a first claim on big screen cinema with a Hong Kong action knock off (The Replacement Killers), followed by an «urban» crime thriller with Jamie Foxx (Bait).

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

The bulk of Killer Joe is built like a standard things - go - terribly - awry small - town crime thriller, but because it was written by a young, sensational - minded Tracy Letts (who here adapted his own script) and is directed by The Exorcist's William Friedkin, the NC - 17 rated action reaches the Grand Guignol by the end.

(from Diary of a Teenage Girl's Marielle Heller) followed by dark puppet - comedy The Happytime Murders and then gritty crime - thriller The Kitchen.

Two years after the highly esteemed drama «Clouds of Sils Maria», French writer / director Olivier Assayas tackles a psychological drama / thriller bolstered by crime and spiritualism.

A small town sheriff retires his badge to avenge his brother's murder, but finds himself tempted into the criminal lifestyle by a beautiful killer in this gritty crime 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.

The Sundance series, whose third season debuts tonight, is based on a series of crime thrillers written by Joe Lansdale.

With «Drive», director Nicolas Winding Refn mixes high art, bloody violence and pulpy crime drama into a high - octane thriller punctuated by some excellent performances.

His 1928 thriller Spies (Spione) belongs to a different tradition, one that came out of the rapid - paced adventure and crime serials of the twenties that were inspired primarily by the hugely successful (and at times surreal) pulp crime serials of Louis Feuillade in France, such as Fantomas and Les Vampires.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

Netflix's next journey into the true crime genre, Team Foxcatcher takes a look at the infamous murder of Olympic wrestler David Schultz, previously dramatized by Bennett Miller's underrated 2012 thriller Foxcatcher.

Developed by CtrlMovie and written by Michael R. Johnson, author of Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), experience a gripping live - action crime thriller with a total of over 180 decision points.

Other Boston crime dramas set for release this year are Ben Affleck's Prohibition - era thriller, Live by Night, and Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, a»70s shoot»em up set in a warehouse starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer.

A poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming action drama Dog Eat Dog, which is is directed by Paul Schrader, who also stars alongside Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe; take a look below... DOG EAT DOG is a gritty contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Cleveland, -LSB-...]

Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004 picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy Award winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB- as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-, as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.

Paulina (Unrated) Dolores Fonzi plays the title character of this crime thriller, set in Argentina, as a lawyer who abandons a promising career in Buenos Aires to teach high school in her hometown, only to end up brutally assaulted by a local gang.

Written and directed by Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler starts out like a gloomy crime thriller, and has the dark, moody feel of a 1970s conspiracy thriller.

Tower Heist escapes being awful by being more crime thriller than comedy.

Evan Creevy's sophomore effort, «Welcome to the Punch,» attempts to bridge that gap by delivering a Hollywood - style crime thriller on an indie budget, but although he's landed an impressive cast of A-list British talent, it's mostly squandered on a bland and overly predictable script.

by Bill Chambers Although it inspired the quintessential U.S. crime picture of the past decade, Ringo Lam's 1987 Hong Kong action - thriller City on Fire suffers in a freshly - Americanized form: Dubbed and revised dialogue does not Reservoir Dogs make it, and the few nods to western pop - culture induce groans.

For such a deeply American story, written by that chronicler of blue - collar New England life Dennis Lehane, the new crime thriller «The Drop» boasts a strikingly foreign pedigree.

Shankar and Silna's 1984 Private Defense Contractors has made a name for itself by producing a string of violent, filmmaker - driven action movies and crime thrillers.

There was so much promise leading up to the final unveiling of Ridley Scott «s long - awaited crime thriller, The Counselor written by the great Cormac McCarthy.

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...

The new addition to the X-Men saga is directed by Matthew Vaughn, previously responsible for an eclectic mix of stunning cinema — British crime thriller complete with cockney gangsters (2004's «Layer Cake»), star - studded fantasy epic (2007's «Stardust») and, in a different direction altogether, surprisingly excellent comic - book adaptation (2010's «Kick - Ass.»)

This Wednesday we have a screening of the L.A. - set crime thriller «Gemini,» followed by a Q&A with writer - director Aaron Katz.

Directed by Academy Award - nominee Thomas McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.

Proud Mary (Blu - ray + digital) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, violence The lowdown: Taraji P. Henson stars in this action thriller as Mary, a professional hitwoman who works for an infamous crime family led by Benny (Danny Glover).

«Spoor» is a new crime thriller by the great Agnieszka Holland and is Poland's Best Foreign Film Oscar entry.