Sentences with phrase «in a thriller set»

Erdem's collection possessed a tension as delicious as that found in any thriller set in the famously mysterious city.

Willem Dafoe, Rachel McAdams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robin Wright star in a thriller set in present - day Germany, where a once - tortured Chechen Muslim appears, claiming to be the heir to a Russian fortune and a falsely accused terrorist; he is investigated by German and American spy agencies while being aided by a young lawyer.

The Yakuza Sydney Pollack, USA, 1974, 35 mm, 112m East meets West in the form of two iconic stars: Japanese gangster film star Ken Takakura teams with Mitchum in a thriller set in Tokyo's treacherous criminal underworld.

In this thriller set loosely in contemporary Bolivia, cyberpunks become virtual terrorists as they try and incent revolution against a democratically - elected former dictator.

Not exact matches

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This is an open, transparent media finance platform where the first project is a TV series called 21Million — a thriller / mystery set in the world of the Bitcoin revolution.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

Lleyton Hewitt prevailed in a five - set thriller over Gilles Muller of Luxembourg in the second round of the 2012 U.S. Open.

The team was defeated by Northern Lights (Minnesota) in a three - set thriller.

The Wildcats beat the Golden Eagles in their barn back on October 14 in a five set thriller one week after MU had defeated Creighton.

First, another five set thriller against Miami, then a four set «stroll in the park» against Missouri State.

Alfonso Cuarón's thriller, set in a future Britain, sees Clive Owen struggle to protect the first child born for 18 years.

An intricate crime drama and a haunting thriller set in the year 2050, The Nether follows an investigation into the complicated, disturbing morality of identity in the digital world, and explores the consequences of making dreams a reality.

In addition to being a health researcher and real foods advocate, she's also a novelist (her book Karma, a psychological thriller set in the disturbing world of sex trafficking, was an award - winning finalist in the «Best New Fiction category of the National Best Book Awards 2009) and a documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The BuddhaIn addition to being a health researcher and real foods advocate, she's also a novelist (her book Karma, a psychological thriller set in the disturbing world of sex trafficking, was an award - winning finalist in the «Best New Fiction category of the National Best Book Awards 2009) and a documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The Buddhain the disturbing world of sex trafficking, was an award - winning finalist in the «Best New Fiction category of the National Best Book Awards 2009) and a documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The Buddhain the «Best New Fiction category of the National Best Book Awards 2009) and a documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The Buddhain the travelogue Searching For The Buddha).

ABOUT BLACK SWAN: A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

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.

Denise Richards and Neve Campbell set the silver screen a» fire in this 1998 thriller.

October Gale is a quiet thriller set in the wilds of Georgian Bay.

A sharp thriller with great atmosphere, set in Northern Ireland and tied up in the ever - knotty history of «The Troubles» (which one character refers to as «the madness of Belfast»), Bad Day for the Cut delivers its cinematic goods thanks to a smart combination of wit and violence, briskly delivered over just under 100 minutes.

Steven Spielberg's urgent 70s - set thriller stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a timely lesson on the need for a vigilant press

As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.

State of Affairs is another generic Washington D.C. - set thriller drawing on current events for story points (terrorist threats, hostage - taking, global unrest) in a way that feels opportunistic and, frankly, insensitive considering the real - world tragedies that are showing up in the news.

There's no denying that when George Clooney wants to be an «artist,» he's more than capable of making some lovely art films, and that's clearly the case here, but there's no valid reason why he should spend his money producing a painstakingly slow travelogue set in the Italian countryside like this and allow it to be disguised as some sort of «thriller.»

The thriller is set at a remote Wisconsin location, where a group of thugs holds two kids hostage in a high - security house.

Set in a business world of long white corridors and glass walls and research labs, it's a Freudian - Jungian - Felliniesque sci - fi thriller, and an outright challenge to American viewers, who may, in the face of its whirligig complexity, feel almost pea - brained.

Once seen in close - up (or even in a medium shot), Skelton Knaggs, with his outsized head, large eyes, and prominent ears, is seldom forgotten by filmgoers; for two decades, from the mid -»30s until his death in 1955, directors loved to use Skelton Knaggs to dress a horror set or establish a menacing mood in a thriller with his mere presence in a shot.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

The premise is right up there with any Charlie Kaufman film (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scynecdoche New York), containing so much juicy potential for interpersonal revelations, but the entire set up is thrown away in the third act for a «thriller» movie that came out of nowhere and does nothing but add a period in the middle of the sentence.

Director David Fincher's stylish psychological thriller is set in the bowels of NYC and is about mismatched homicide detectives tracking down a biblically inspired elusive serial killer.

Set primarily during one sustained action sequence (a shootout in an abandoned warehouse), «Free Fire» cooks as a straight, no - frills action thriller with comedic elements.

Post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America where a family struggles to survive and rebuild a life in the wake of a catastrophic plague that has wiped out most of the surrounding civilization.

When an extraterrestrial spaceship comes crashing down to Earth during the reign of the Vikings, the Scandinavian plunderers get set to do battle with a most unusual enemy in director Howard McCain's earthbound science fiction thriller.

Wilson's Heart is an immersive first - person psychological thriller set in a 1940's hospital that has undergone a haunting transformation.

Steven Soderbergh's last theatrically released movie prior to his self - imposed retirement (he also has an HBO drama about the life of Liberace arriving this summer) is a thriller set in the world of the pharmaceutical industry.

Set in the 1970s and co-directed by Cristina Gallego (a producer on Serpent), this «superbly crafted» film is both «ethnographic chronicle and art - house thriller,» according to Jordan Mintzer of THR.

Had the tone gone full - thriller or full - comedy, perhaps everybody's game night would be the entertainment it sets out to be; the blend right now takes viewer through highs and lows in one sitting, through a good point there and something less so afterward.

A backwoods teenager (Jamie Bell) and his little brother who suffers from an eating disorder must go on the run from their crazed, vengeful uncle (Josh Lucas) in this crime thriller that harkens back to the rural - set B - movies from the»70s.

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With scenes in the United Nations — this is the first time a Hollywood production has been granted access to film there — it also has smatterings of Alfred Hitchcock's «North by Northwest,» a thriller also set in and around the United Nations.

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

A feeling of foreboding sets in early in Kiah Roache - Turner's zombie - apocalypse thriller Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead.

This cop thriller, set largely in Osaka, Japan, is so full of screeching tires, flashing neon and extravagant violence that it's almost physically painful to watch, yet that seems to be the effect the director had in mind.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Set in a future American metropolis, Metro City, this sci - fi - thriller features a policewoman heroine who like the hero in Robocop was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-human fighter.

However, Caruso and screenwriters Landon (Another Day in Paradise) and Ellsworth (Red Eye) aren't exactly setting their sights too high, employing a mixture of teen comedies, romance, and paranoid thriller elements solely to deliver escapist cheap thrills.

While the beginning of the film feels like it's setting the audience up for a somewhat boring lesson on drone warfare (I'm looking at you, Good Kill), Hood — still wiping the sting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off with Ender's Game and now this — excellently threads the needle of tension and, before you know it, the thriller aspect of the film becomes abundantly clear as the series of events play out in semi-real time over the course of one day.

It's a thriller set in the 1960s at a crappy hotel called the El Royale in Lake Tahoe, where a group of characters with mysterious motivations will violently come into conflict.

Fellow rising star nominee Taylor - Joy had her breakout in her debut film role, 2016's indie hit The Witch, but is soon set to appear alongside James McAvoy — a rising star winner himself in 2006 — in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Split.