Sentences with phrase «of police thrillers»

Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime — from the pages of her own book.

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Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

Though it's never clear why she doesn't just go to the police when things turn nasty, the tension builds nicely throughout, with a superbly tense finale that avoids most of the cliché traps other recent thrillers fall into.

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.

Padilha is experienced with fact - based cinema, creating the superb terrorist docu - thriller «Bus 174,» the vibrant semi-fictional «Elite Squad» police actioners and episodes of the reality - inspired Netflix series «Narcos.»

Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres.

The plot has the obvious trappings of a police procedural but little of the conventional execution; the film is so character - driven that it's unlikely to appeal to thriller fans (evidently the reason Warner Bros. has marketed the film so minimally, a particular surprise given its talent pedigree).

Burt Reynolds showed signs of becoming a very personal filmmaker with this police thriller, his third outing as a director.

The Tourist (PG - 13 for violence and brief profanity) English - language remake of Anthony Zimmer, the French thriller about an American (Johnny Depp) vacationing in Italy who finds himself falling in love with a manipulative British temptress (Angelina Jolie) being tailed by the police because of her hidden criminal agenda.

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).

Sterritt *** A grieving mother, an adulterous police officer, and the hunt for a missing person are among the ingredients of this detective thriller, which explores the insecurities of four married couples.

Unlike many modern - day thrillers, this film is an exciting, taut, and realistic portrayal of urban police life, but it does not fill its running time with gratuitous violence, nonstop profanity, and copious amounts of sex.

KISS OF THE DRAGON (Grade: C --RRB-: In the lively but incredibly dumb, chopsocky thriller, Jet Li plays a Beijing police detective being unjustly hunted in the back streets of Paris by a mad dog Sûreté inspector (Tchéky KaryoOF THE DRAGON (Grade: C --RRB-: In the lively but incredibly dumb, chopsocky thriller, Jet Li plays a Beijing police detective being unjustly hunted in the back streets of Paris by a mad dog Sûreté inspector (Tchéky Karyoof Paris by a mad dog Sûreté inspector (Tchéky Karyo).

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

Continuing a string of interesting characters, McConaughey was a police officer moonlighting as a contract killer who is hired to off the mother of a small - time drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in William Friedkin's darkly comedic thriller «Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor.

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.

Netflix has released a new trailer for its fantasy action - thriller Bright, which sees director David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad) directing Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two LAPD police officers — one human and one orc — who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

With Le cercle rouge, his diamond - hard penultimate film, Melville mounted one of his most masterful entries in the crime - thriller genre, an elegantly stylized heist film in which a taciturn trio of thieves (Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and Gian Maria Volonté) orchestrate an intricate jewelry - store robbery, their fates hanging in the balance as a dogged police inspector (André Bourvil) closes in.

The next movie of his to arrive will be with another veteran of his last; Will Smith stars in fantasy police thriller Bright, due on Netflix this December.

Opening this weekend is director David Ayer's (Harsh Times) police thriller End of Watch.

Woody's first directorial credit is for orchestrating a new voice track for an obscure Japanese action spy thriller International Secret Police: Key of Keys.

Peter Weller and Sam Elliott blast their way through the underbelly of New York as they team up to get to the bottom of a police corruption scandal in this action thriller.

I also have an edge of your seat thriller based on a Jim Shepard novel and a cop action / drama based on my father's time as a police officer in central Illinois in the 1970s.

The directors of the hit Hong Kong crime thriller Cold War return for this sequel that sees the police force botch a hostage crisis.

A bold new action - thriller from director David Ayer (known for such box office hits as Suicide Squad, End of Watch and Training Day), Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Smith, a human named Officer Ward, and Edgerton, an orc named Officer Jakoby, who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister, fantasy underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

Taut Korean thriller about a high - tech police surveillance team who attempt to take down a gang of ruthless bank robbers.

TAKERS is a slick crime thriller which pits a daring and creative band of thieves against a determined Los Angeles police detective, with more than the loot at stake for each side.

Cage is set to headline the legendary William Friedkin's forthcoming film I AM WRATH, a vigilante / revenge - themed thriller that will see the Oscar - winner dishing out his own brand of justice after the murder of his wife and subsequent botched police investigation.

Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian Revolution, the thriller features a police officer who investigates the murder of a woman.

62) «Sleepless» Smart Rating: 21.37 Release date: Friday, January 13, 2017 Genre: Action, thriller Starring: Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, T.I. Description: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx) finds himself caught in a high - stakes web of corrupt cops, internal affairs and murderous gangsters.

It's a raw psychological thriller centring on two cop brothers, Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who commit the ultimate crime and soon see their world collapse under the weight of their former Police Chief father's shadow.

Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series of brutal murders and the three men whose lives are on a collision course as a result: the father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....

Writer - director Bong has long excelled at tweaking genre, notably in monster movie The Host (06) and in his super-tantalizing 2003 police thriller Memories of Murder, which pre-emptively out - Zodiac'd Zodiac by four years.

Whatever genius thought to pair S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99) with Mel Gibson deserves a goddamn metal of honor and with a name as suggestive as Dragged Across Concrete (which is sure to conjure a certain image for anyone who's had the pleasure of watching Brawl in Cell Block 99), this police brutality thriller sounds like Zahler won't be giving up the graphic violence any time soon.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the thriller «Dark Crimes» (2018, R) with Jim Carrey as a police detective on the trail of a brutal killer.

«The Line»: Grim, taut Australian crime thriller about police corruption centering around two undercover cops investigating the murder of an Asian crime - syndicate member.

In an action - packed drama reminiscent of «80s techno - sci - fi thrillers, Jackie Chan stars as Lin, a police inspector in modern [Read More] Hong Kong.

Sterritt *** A grieving mother, an adulterous police officer, and the hunt for a missing person are among the multifaceted ingredients of this detective thriller, which explores the doubts and insecurities dogging the lives of four married couples.

This may be the answer: Peele produces and Spike Lee directs this fact - based thriller of an African - American police detective, played by John David Washington (Denzel's son), who in 1978 infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to mess up its hateful deeds.

FROM HELL (Grade: B --RRB-: It's never hugely suspenseful and not much of a slasher thriller, but this latest movie evocation of the Jack the Ripper myth — starring Johnny Depp as a psychic London police inspector on the trail — is morbidly fascinating and sumptuously atmospheric.

His American thriller, Basic Instinct, is a feature - length echo of an earlier Dutch film, The Fourth Man, both Hitchcockian arcs of anxiety that take place in the vivid and rapidly unraveling realities of unstable men; Sharon Stone's hair in Basic Instinct's police interrogation scene looks like a deliberate reconstruction of Renee Soutendijk's hairstyle in The Fourth Man, which is scraped back into a severe, androgynous polygon.

The Tourist (12/10) English - language remake of Anthony Zimmer, the French thriller about an American (Johnny Depp) vacationing in Italy who finds himself falling in love with a manipulative British temptress (Angelina Jolie) being tailed by the police because of her hidden criminal agenda.

A politically - charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, CHILD 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov [Tom Hardy], who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa [Noomi Rapace], as a traitor.

Perhaps the first urban film of the genre, this moody thriller stars Arthur Franz as a deranged young man who shoots women with a surplus Army rifle, prompting a police manhunt in hilly San Francisco.

Jerry Bruckheimer is teaming with Scott Derrickson, the writer / director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister, for the long - brewing paranormal police thriller Beware the Night.

The list includes «Colette,» a historical biopic with Keira Knightley as the famed French novelist; «Monsters and Men,» a drama about police brutality that features John David Washington (son of Denzel); «Wildlife,» a coming - of - age story that marks the directorial debut of Paul Dano; and «The Catcher Was a Spy,» a historical thriller with Paul Rudd.

The difficulties with the film spring from the misunderstanding that it somehow adheres to the conventions of a thriller or a police procedural when, in fact, The Caveman's Valentine is a superhero fable that takes on the cause of the homeless (again like McFarlane's Spawn) while attacking the entrenched ruling classes in government and the arts.

A politically - charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, CHILD 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy), who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), as a traitor.

A Hard Day (Unrated) Korean crime thriller about a police detective (Sun - kyun Lee) who is accused of corruption, served divorce papers, learns of his mother's death, and is involved in a fatal hit - and - run accident, all within a 24 - hour period.

Think of Police, Adjective as the direct antithesis of the generic, Hollywood crime thriller featuring such staples as gunplay, fisticuffs and that obligatory chase scene where a careening car plows through a fruit stand and sideswipes a woman with a baby carriage before flying off a cliff and exploding in a fireball.