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Frequency is a 2000 American science fiction thriller drama film.

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Whether it's the latest superhero reboot, science fiction thriller or historical epic drama, the effects - driven juggernaut that powers the modern film industry seems to continually overlook subaquatic cinema.

This structure is the basis of films from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, from thrillers and dramas to romcoms.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

The gunplay (what little there is), is done well, and even though the film is more style than substance, and could stand to be trimmed up greatly, it's a thinking man's drama / thriller, and not a blockbuster action film.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

One of Hollywood's sexiest and most magnetic leading men, Denzel Washington's poise and radiantly sane intelligence permeate whatever film he is in, be it a socially conscious drama, biopic, or suspense thriller.

It tries to be a heavy political drama, investigative / procedural thriller, and a slam bang action film all in one.

She landed her film debut in the thriller The Thirteenth Floor at the age of 20 and soon was offered a role on the WB family drama Safe Harbor.

Gripping Drama - Fuzzy Politics Kidman And Penn Elevate UN Thriller By Cole Smithey Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriDrama - Fuzzy Politics Kidman And Penn Elevate UN Thriller By Cole Smithey Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thridrama than it does as an espionage thriller.

A winner at festivals including Sundance, it's known for being filmed one day a week for 52 weeks and marries a documentary style with drama and a truly pervy thriller element that is intriguing if not always interesting.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

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.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

Take a look at the intriguing mix of indie dramas, horror films, and action thrillers now available on demand!

Comedy, sci - fi, horror, romance, adventure, action, drama, and thriller, it covers quite a lot of territory in a short amount of time, and does so with its own sense of style that makes it different from any other film, even if it is an homage film at its core.

Be it the emotion of the attack or the undeniable thrill of the manhunt, the film works both as thriller and drama.

Lionsgate has released the first - look image from Roman Polanski's thriller - drama «Based on a True Story,» which marks the French - Polish director's first film in four years.

On film, the concept of imperious parents and exasperated children is far from new, with the variations of mother - son relationship fuelling everything from Throw Momma from the Train to Mother (both Albert Brooks» 1996 drama and Bong Joon - ho's unrelated 2009 thriller) to Psycho.

The Brit has proven elastic with the release of three largely disparate feature films — the sci - fi action thriller Kill Command, the romantic drama Me Before You, and a period drama Genius, in which she takes on the effusive role of Zelda Fitzgerald — and appeared in two theater productions including a turn as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and as Elena in Robert Icke's Uncle Vanya in London.

What makes this film so outstanding is the way it juggles different genres (thriller, suspense, drama) and extremely controversial issues like rape and empowerment and sexuality.

O'Connell, who also appeared in the 2014 prison drama Starred Up and thriller» 71, set in Belfast during the Troubles, said he was «honoured to be considered... especially for films I feel incredibly fortunate to have been a part of».

His first six films included two horrors, a period drama, a thriller, a courtroom drama, and a crime noir.

Coming off two critically acclaimed films — the family drama «Summer Hours» and the epic terrorist thriller «Carlos» — his next effort marks another gear change for the director who refuses to be pinned down to any one genre or style.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

The film shifts between thriller and drama, and it might have been better if it had gone for one or the other, rather than straddling both with only a modicum of success.

This identity disorder — Sofia is one of contemporary cinema's most filmed cities, yet rarely plays itself — is personified by the lead character (Elika Portnoy), a Bulgarian woman with multiple personalities, each one belonging to a different genre: a bespectacled, blonde educator with a controlling husband (domestic drama), a redheaded belly dancer (romance à la Zalman King), and jet - black - haired professional assassin (thriller).

It creates a poignant, romantic underscore throughout film as it bounces between political drama and a tense action - driven thriller.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet's final film is back on Instant, a twisty heist thriller with elements of family drama that I'm still eager to check out for myself.

(I'm inclined to cut Williams some slack, since his previous films — mostly unknown in the U.S. — have been thrillers and crime dramas.)

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

It's clearly the year of Isabelle Huppert... at least at AFI FEST presented by AUDI, Huppert starred in two excellent films: «Elle» a thriller by Paul Verhoeven and «Things to Come» a family drama by Mia Hansen Love.

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.

Sheridan set out to make a «buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,» he said.

Belfast is the setting of this low - budget thriller, though with nary a reference to the Troubles in the film's screenplay or geography, the two - hander drama could plausibly take place just about anywhere.

The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.

The big gala presentations range from upcoming comic book geekery with Green Lantern to Nicholas Winding Refn's thriller Drive (fresh off rave reviews from Cannes) to the premiere of Richard Linklater's latest Bernie, with stops along the way for indie dramas (A Better Life), British genre films (Attack the Block), action thrillers (The Devil's Double), and Guillermo Del Toro - produced scary fun (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark).

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What begins as an enjoyable sci - fi drama about mankind's last hope quickly stumbles into a nightmarish thriller with heavy resonances of the underappreciated Paul W.S. Anderson film, «Event Horizon.»

Opening on an air force squadron of Free French fighters hidden in the countryside, it segues into a sea drama, a prison escape thriller, a war film, and during a brief deck brawl something approaching a pirate film, all nestled into the storyline through flashbacks and plot twists.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

The film is the latest true - story based projected directed by Bennett Miller; part psychological drama / thriller, part sports drama, Foxcatcher reads as being a hybrid of genre tropes presents in Miller's previous biographical features, Capote and Moneyball.

2 Limited Edition (Blu - ray + DVD) Details: 1957 - 61, Arrow Video Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A four - disc set that offers five early crime thriller, mob dramas and action films from Japanese director Seijun Suzuki.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English - language drama / thriller film.

Victoria (Germany, 2015)-- 9:00 PM «Victoria (2015) is an impressive technical achievement: a street film turned romantic drama turned crime thriller, shot in a single, unbroken take in real time over the course of a couple of hours between late night and dawn.