Sentences with phrase «crime thrillers»

Although his early films all followed the simple mold of the revenge dramas and crime thrillers that had made him a star, two works stand out from this period: Seyyit Han (The Bride of the Earth)(1968) and Aç Kurtlar (The Hungry Wolves)(1969).

Johnnie To may be best known for his high - octane crime thrillers, but he has also achieved considerable critical and commercial success with his romantic comedies.

2 Limited Edition Boundary - breaking early crime thrillers, mob dramas and action movies from legendary cult director Seijun Suzuki.

Akira Kurosawa wasn't known for film noir or crime thrillers, but he did do a genre drive - by back in 1963.

By writing and casting strong roles in films ranging from dark comedies to crime thrillers, Campion has paved the way for women in the film industry and provided audiences with new points of view.

The keepcase itself includes an insert hawking lurid true - crime thrillers from the studio.

2 (Arrow Video) is a box set containing a collection of crime thrillers from director Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter.

There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.

It overcomes that rough start and holds your interest enough to want to see it through, without ever exciting or intriguing to the extent that the best crime thrillers do.

Sadly, there has been such a glut of gun - packed London crime thrillers, that it simply isn't enough to make one that looks good and has a fierce energy: you need a solidly structured plot that...

I love British crime thrillers so I found the premise of Late Shift intriguing, easily holding my attention through the multiple choices needed to proceed from dusk till dawn.

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...

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.

The look and feel of the imagery hearkens back to the gritty crime thrillers of the Seventies, and the parallel frame - work in particular is perfectly handled, reminiscent of Brian De Palma's technique when at his peak.

Crime thrillers typically have an advantage over the public in that their depictions of illicit worlds need only to look believable.

I am drawn to these gritty crime thrillers, but apparently it doesn't always work out for me lol

In the not - inconsequential sub-genre of 1960's tough guy crime thrillers, it's tough to beat this neo-noir that carries the lineage of a fine wine, but the taste of a stout beer.

It sounds like a film Affleck could handle, and it's a step away from the 1970s - tinged crime thrillers that he has used to launch his directorial career to date.

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

Humphreys praises Irish documentary The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Belgian crime thrillers Above the Law and The Racer and the Jailbird and Indonesian film, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.

One of the great low - budget Italian crime thrillers from the 1970s, this suitably grim exercise in economy from Fernando di Leo pulls few punches in its bonkers car chase.

Sad to see such talent wasted in slow, boring, muddled and semi competent crime thrillers.

If you are a fan of crime thrillers, while not as strong as a David Fincher production, this film still stands on it own.

The movie has the sleepy vibe of some of those scuzzy»90s crime thrillers.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association and a former adviser to Clegg, said: «The link between publishing and politics can be traced throughout history, from Winston Churchill winning the Nobel Prize in Literature to Baroness Ruth Rendell's crime thrillers and murder mysteries.

Paramount's crime thriller «The Gambler» opened to a middling $ 9.1 million from 2,478 locations, while The Weinstein Company's «Big Eyes» floundered in its debut with only $ 3 million from 1,307 locations.

The way many of us view the death of Jesus on the cross is like some poorly scripted «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene from a crime thriller movie, except now it is «Good God, Bad God.»

develops into both a smart, surprising comedy and a dressed - up crime thriller.

A stylish,»70s - period crime thriller, THE CONNECTION tells the story of real - life Marseille magistrate Pierre Michel (Academy Award ® Winner Jean Dujardin, THE ARTIST) and his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: the French Connection.

«Odell is one of the best, most innovative breweries in the nation, and I knew they would love the challenge of pairing a French - style beer to our new French crime thriller THE CONNECTION.»

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.

Yet Warren never intended it to be one, preferring to describe it as a «political crime thriller».

Emily is making the press rounds to promote her gritty new crime thriller Sicario, which premiered in select US theaters last Friday.

An interesting love story wrapped up in a crime thriller story.

A film that begins as a languorous study in grieving and shifts with screeching abruptness into a crime thriller.

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.

Money changes everything and a series of betrayals turns friends into enemies and family against family in this taut crime thriller.

Samuel Fuller's revenge crime thriller is shot in the same brisk and violent manner he shoots his war films.

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.

Thomas Jane and Laurence Fishburne in a very different sort of faceoff, of post-military conflict damaged souls in this PTSD psychological crime thriller.

A Chinese - Hong Kong crime thriller about a police captain who teams up with a drug manufacturer to go undercover so that he can bust a notorious drug lord but finds himself drawn into a dangerous battle of wits.

On that score, this adaptation of a best - selling Michael Connelly crime thriller is an improvement.

While that tells you more about its 2013 (in a word: disastrous) than it does about its 2014, Open Road did manage to get a lot of traction with critics last year with its Jake Gyllenhaal crime thriller Nightcrawler.

After playing a tough lawyer in the crime thriller Gang Related (1997), Crewson further displayed her ability to convey strength as Harrison Ford's undaunted First Lady in Wolfgang Petersen's summer blockbuster Air Force One (1997).

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

Decent little crime thriller has good atmosphere, visual style, and respectful sympathy for the mentally ill.

Based on Jeff Lindsay's novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter this crime thriller follows Dexter Morgan.

Our hygienic hero gets far more than he bargained for in director Renny Harlin's twisty crime thriller, co-starring Ed Harris as Carver's old partner and Eva Mendes as a grieving wife.

Shannon followed it up with a memorable contribution to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center — as a military man desperate to help in any way possible during the 9/11 tragedy — and Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), a crime thriller about two brothers who team up to rob a jewelry store.