Sentences with phrase «crime thriller element»

Not exact matches

The result is a counterfeit film without the element of surprise that also denies the viewer the lurid satisfaction of a true - crime thriller.

In this gritty crime thriller, laced with elements of black comedy, Donal races against time to repair the damage he's done to his estranged family while trying to avoid being killed by his enemies.

As a thriller, it's par for the course, but it's the human element that makes it a work of merit for those who enjoy well - developed personalities and a bit of emotional substance injected in their formula crime dramas.

This tense indie film defies genre labels, as it mixes elements of crime films and thrillers with, surprisingly, romantic comedies.

The film combines the austere, snail's - pace tone of Cronenberg's two experimental student - era films (Stereo and Crimes of the Future, both of which featured Ron Mlodzik, an androgynous ringer for Jones), with elements of the viral conspiracy, flesh - invading thrillers stretching from Rabid to Dead Ringers.

The newest American crime thriller and cop drama to hit theaters, «Triple 9», is a movie that packs an attractive star studded cast, features intense action and has most of the right elements to make it at least a mediocre genre piece, but it also presents a story that is unfocused and sometimes unclear with feeling that it's incomplete or missing something.

It's more of a drama that has elements of ironic humor and thriller elements that feel like they come from the works of Dostoyevsky (indeed, «Crime and Punishment» gets a nod in the course of the film).

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

Cookbooks, crime thrillers, general fiction, or memoirs are all highly different types of books, and need different elements to succeed.

Steampunk is its own form of genre - blending, combining fantasy with historical fiction (typically set in the Victorian era), but when you add a thriller or hard - boiled crime element into the mix, you definitely kick it up a notch.

Former housing officer, Mel Sherratt spent 12 years trying to get her book published, but was repeatedly turned down for being «cross genre», because she mixed elements of women's fiction, crime and thriller writing.