An exemplary example of not only the courtroom drama but
the murder mystery thriller sets of sub genres, Gregory Hoblit's 1996 classic Primal Fear is a movie that to this day stands the test of time thanks to an anchoring turn by the once A listing Richard Gere and the firecracker debut by the ever young Edward Norton in his freakishly good role of troubled, murder accused youth Aaron Stampler.
The first trailer has debuted for
a murder mystery thriller set in London titled In Darkness, with a screenplay co-written by husband and wife team Natalie Dormer and Anthony Byrne.
Happily, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage also stands as a superb
murder mystery thriller that will excite new and old fans alike, even if you already know who the killer turns out to be.
«I'm terrified what else you could convince yourself of...» Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for
a murder mystery thriller titled Spinning Man, adapted from a book by George Harrar.
In this modern day and age of courtroom /
murder mystery thrillers there is a tendency to be either overly simplistic in there set ups or over complicated to the state of losing the plot, but Primal Fear is that rare moulding of everything coming together in not only a surprising way but a believable way.
Not exact matches
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.
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Charting a turbulent relationship between a cloistered young woman and the vagabond man who turns her world upside down, Pearce's increasingly intense psychological
thriller deftly overturns expectations as it dances between timeless fable, modern romance and
murder mystery.
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.
Sure, it has its fair share of scary moments, but it seems much more preoccupied with being either a
thriller, a comedy or even a
murder mystery story.
With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean
thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town
murder mystery.
It's still a good novel, but the level of intrigue almost felt like the novel should have been part of a different series, since it was more reminiscent of espionage
thriller than a
murder mystery.
This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a psychological
thriller, a
murder mystery and a zombie flick.
This isn't a
murder mystery or a procedural or even a revenge
thriller, which may frustrate audiences when the ending comes, but let them be frustrated because it's the perfect ending to a story that never lets anyone off the hook too easily, leaves characters asking themselves what to do from there, and holds no easy resolutions, just a tinge of hope that things need to get better, no matter if they go through with their final decision or not.
Many of their films have had flirtations with more genre - inclined filmmaking (The Son, for one, veers into
thriller territory), but The Unknown Girl is an outright
murder mystery.
It's only in its overwritten second act that Death Spa gets bogged down, spending time with a pair of cynical police detectives, a paranormal investigator, and Michael's lawyer, and developing half - assed plot threads in the corresponding genres of
murder mystery, ghost story, and corporate
thriller.
A
mystery puzzle box
thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal
murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of
murder -
mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
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Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime
mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.
Hot off his casting alongside Jennifer Aniston in Netflix's
Murder Mystery, The Tracking Board is reporting that Adam Sandler is being eyed as a replacement for Jonah Hill in the
thriller Uncut Gems.
$ 1, A
mystery /
thriller set in a small rustbelt town in post-recession America, where a one - dollar bill changing hands connects a group of characters involved in a shocking multiple
murder.
If you're into true life
murder mystery /
thrillers, then you might want to check out the slick new trailer for Ami Canaan Mann's long - delayed Texas Killing Fields.
Giallo is a term which is often disputed on in regards to what it truly is, but basically it's an Italian
murder -
mystery thriller.
A bit lengthy run time for a
thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this
murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good
thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.
The Girl Who Played with Fire is much more of a
thriller than a traditional
murder mystery — a pity since one of the reasons I liked the first film was that I hadn't seen a straight
murder mystery on the big screen for quite some time.
This isn't a complex
murder mystery like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, this is more of a revenge
thriller.
A distinctly British rural
murder mystery flick if injected with a Hollywood action extravaganza mentality, this is one semi-parody of bad
thrillers that takes its main joke too far.
The former is a supernatural
thriller whereas Giallo, a genre established by Mario Bava in 1967 with the visually sumptuous KILL, BABY... KILL, may invoke the spirit but leans heavily toward the
murder -
mystery elements of noir.
Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried star in the sci - fi
thriller «Anon» (2018, not rated), a
murder mystery set in a future with no privacy or anonymity.
Roberts and Nicole Kidman turn out to be key supporting players; Chiwetel Ejiofor of «12 Years a Slave» is the real star of this
murder mystery - conspiracy
thriller adapted from «The Secret in Their Eyes,» the 2009 Spanish - Argentinean Oscar winner.
Just as Olivier Assayas's new film Personal Shopper keeps shapeshifting from horror movie to socio - economic commentary to erotic
thriller to paranormal
murder mystery... so this review keeps shifting as I write it.
«Beast» sounds like a straightforward erotic
mystery thriller, but that atmosphere is at times overshadowed by Pearce's exploration of British classism, bullying and bigotry (a Portuguese laborer is also caught up in the
murder investigation).
9:00 pm — TCM — Rear Window Hitchcock, Stewart, and Kelly mix equal parts suspense
thriller,
murder mystery, romance, voyeristic expose, ethical drama, caustic comedy and cinematographic experiment to create one of my favorite films of all time.
2:15 am (1st)-- TCM — Rear Window Hitchcock, Stewart, and Kelly mix equal parts suspense
thriller,
murder mystery, romance, voyeristic expose, ethical drama, caustic comedy and cinematographic experiment to create one of the greatest films of all time.
It's also to say that what began its existence as a study of the bonds that hold a family together through the caprice of living has been reduced in its film adaptation to a
murder mystery without a
mystery, and a supernatural
thriller that at every turn reminds of how much better Jackson's The Frighteners is in dealing with almost the exact same set of themes.
At the height of the Italian giallo boom in the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid
murder -
mystery thrillers.
For fans of action and adventure: Read The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter, a
thriller in which fictional ballistics expert Bob Lee Swagger attempts to solve America's most baffling
murder mystery: Who killed JFK?
Fourteenth - century London comes alive in all its color and detail in this riveting
thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower — a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger
mystery, and
murder.
Set in»30s Berlin, the story contains elements of a noire
murder mystery and an historical
thriller.
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At once a
murder mystery, a love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place, The Good German is a historical
thriller of first rank.
It's a
murder mystery and a literary
thriller, a multilayered nonlinear narrative and a psychological portrait of the dark side of human nature.
From supernatural serial killers to gruesome, chilling
murders, these 2014
mysteries have just a dash of horror — perfect for getting
thriller fans into the Halloween spirit.
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