Sentences with phrase «psychological thriller set»

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

This month's best new mysteries include a tense psychological thriller set in Tokyo, plenty of high - stakes espionage and a long - awaited Swedish translation.

Instead, the latest confounding career choice from director Catherine Hardwicke is a clunky psychological thriller set in the Los Angeles rock scene.

After all, not many filmmakers would conceive of — much less get the financing to actually make — a dark - as - death psychological thriller set in the world of ballet.

An unflinching psychological thriller set amidst the underbelly of New York City's «Gilded Age,» The Alienist follows Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl, Inglourious Basterds, Rush, Captain America: Civil War), a brilliant and obsessive «Alienist» in the controversial new field of treating mental pathologies, who holds the key to hunting down a never - before - seen ritualistic killer murdering young boys.

The movie was adapted from the best seller of the same name by Dennis Lehane, a psychological thriller set in 1954 off the coast of Massachusetts at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital for the Criminally - Insane.

Beast (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing violence) Psychological thriller set on a tiny English island where a young woman (Jessie Buckley) leaves home to move in with a free - spirited newcomer (Johnny Flynn) only to discover that he's the prime suspect in a string of brutal murders.

Shutter Island, by contrast, is a psychological thriller set in 1954 off the coast of Massachusetts at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital for the Criminally - Insane.

Save the date: Drafthouse Films has confirmed March 25 as the theatrical and VOD release date for Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, a psychological thriller set at a dinner party thrown by Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and her new husband David (Michiel Huisman), to which Eden's ex-husband Will (Logan Marshall - Green) is surprised to be invited.

The latest baffling step in the declining career of «thirteen» director Catherine Hardwicke is a clunky psychological thriller set in the Los Angeles rock scene.

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).

Aronofsky takes his usual bravura cinematic approach to this harrowing psychological thriller set in a New York ballet company.

Years later, he wrote La Main, a psychological thriller set in a New England farmhouse.

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).

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

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).

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 Buddha).

Not exact matches

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 in 1896 amidst a backdrop of vast wealth, extreme poverty and technological innovation, this psychological thriller stars Daniel Brühl (Rush), Luke Evans (The Girl on The Train), Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral) and Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker).

Zero Dark Thirty thesp Mark Strong is set to star opposite Nicole Kidman in Rowan Joffe's psychological thriller Before I Go...

Surprises are few and far between in this attractively filmed yet disappointingly conventional thriller that's short on psychological heft — given the set - up and the characters» relationships, the script by Ronald Bass is entirely too timid for its own good.

Critic Consensus: Well - acted and solidly crafted, Disorder (Maryland) relies on patiently established slow - burning tension to set the stage for an intelligent, intimate psychological thriller.

Saw VI and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter director Kevin Greutert helms the»80s - set psychological thriller that centers on an estranged family who hires a cult de-programmer (Dorff) to get back their teenage son from a murderous cult, only to find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

She is also set to star in Asghar Farhadi's first Spanish - language psychological thriller with her husband Javier Bardem.

In retrospect, my expectations were probably set a little too high, because although «Trance» is an entertaining psychological thriller, it doesn't quite live up to Boyle's more recent, award - winning work.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL — Night Train is more of a psychological thriller than an action ripper, but it ends with an exciting set - piece shoot out on a mountain - range crossing cable - car.

Superb acting, beautiful set and sound design, and intelligent camera work all elevates this deeply unsettling psychological thriller into something memorable.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 24, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Changeling (R for profanity, violence and disturbing content) Clint Eastwood directs this psychological thriller, set in L.A., inspired by events arising in 1928 during a real life case involving a single - mom (Angelina Jolie) whose hopes for the safe return of her kidnapped nine year - old (Gattlin Griffith) were seemingly answered but then dashed when she realized that the boy brought to her was not her son.

There's not a lot more she can say about the production, she says, beyond the fact that it's called The Red Barn, is set in 1960s New England and co-stars Mark Strong — a «psychological thriller with Hitchcockian elements».

Not Forgotten (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and graphic violence) Psychological thriller, set in a Tex - Mex border town, about a husband (Simon Baker) and wife (Paz Vega) forced to come to grips with their checkered past in order to save their kidnapped daughter (Chloe Moretz).

From an opening sequence in a haunted house with an intricately constructed soundtrack to a high - tension, cat - and - mouse game on a trip from Paris to London and back set entirely to text messaging, Personal Shopper brings the psychological and supernatural thriller into the digital age.

Cut Bank (R for violence and profanity) Psychological crime thriller, set in Montana, about a young auto mechanic (Liam Hemsworth) whose plans for a better life for himself and his girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) unravel after filming a murder he witnesses in their tiny hometown.

Talking movies with him is a treat, the conversation leaping from obscurities such as the 1980 asylum - set psychological thriller The Ninth Configuration (about which we discovered a shared obsession when we first met in 2002) to such detective classics as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, both of which cast long shadows over his latest work, Inherent Vice.

ENEMY is described as a sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that's set to bring us something new.

Black Swan (12/3) Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) directs this psychological thriller, set in NYC, revolving around a couple of ballet dancers (Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis) competing to land the lead role in a production of Swan Lake.

Given the currency of contained horror films and psychological thrillers — «low budget horror films set within a single location» appears on every «Screenwriters Wanted» list in Hollywood — it it's no surprise that the above breakdown sounds so familiar.

The Sam Mendes» produced and John Logan penned psychological thriller is set in Victorian London and has already signed up Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, an American stuck in London, and Eva Green who attempts to seduce him.

It sets itself up as a manipulation - based psychological thriller and goes off in tangential directions you would not expect of such a thing.

Set to World Premiere at the upcoming Stanley Film Festival (full lineup here) is the Ben Cresciman - directed psychological thriller Sun Choke,...

According to Variety, the upcoming psychological thriller «Angel of Mine,» starring Noomi Rapace, is set as the first acquisition by R & R Films, a new Australian distributor.

Black Swan (R for graphic sexuality, disturbing violent images, profanity and drug use) Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) directs this psychological thriller, set in NYC, revolving around a couple of ballet dancers (Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis) competing to land the lead role in a production of Swan Lake.

Night Film was summarized when the deal was announced as a «psychological thriller about obsession, family loyalty and ambition set in raw contemporary Manhattan.»

Complicit, a suspenseful psychological thriller about a teen investigating a fire set by his sister, features an unreliable narrator with unusual psychosomatic symptoms and a past speckled with violence and loss.

O'Brien's latest novel, set in her native Ireland, is a psychological thriller about a damaged young man who has carried the seeds of killing within him since childhood.

With Malice by Eileen Cook Like The Girl on the Train for the teen set, Cook's psychological thriller opens with 18 - year - old Jill Charron in a hospital room with no memory of the previous six weeks and her entire senior trip to Italy.

There are precious few angels, burning or otherwise, in Tawni O'Dell's intense psychological thriller Angels Burning, set in a bleak, backwoods Pennsylvania town where mining, money and good times have pretty much come and gone.

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming - of - age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.

Follow You Home is Edwards» fourth solo novel, a psychological thriller about a dream holiday that turns into a nightmare - set for publication this June.

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