The Chamber is a claustrophobic survival thriller set beneath the Yellow Sea where the pilot of a small submersible craft and a three-man Special Ops team become trapped underwater in a fight for survival.
Jack a police officer is taken hostage inside a house that is being used by a gang of bank robbers. When he is left alone with gang member Erin they become attracted to each other... Based on a short story entitled 'The House on Turk Street' by classic pulp novelist Dashiell Hammett.
Federal agent Hank Harris (Tim Roth, The Hateful Eight) is working the U.S.-Mexico border, tracking a young gun-runner. A foolish error sees him kidnapped by the boy, who takes him into Mexico to hand over to his uncle's cartel as a trophy. But the boy's naivety soon sees both their lives threatened, and the power between them begins to shift.
Matt (Josh Bowman) and Anna (Leila Mimmack) are a typical young couple living in London. Anna is enjoying a bright legal career while video gaming-obsessed Matt is a little lost, searching for direction in life. The morning after an unsuccessful date night, masked thugs kidnap Anna before assaulting Matt and locking him into a body vest that contains a mysterious package. Our reluctant hero is given a mobile phone and told to follow instructions and deliver the package to the secretive Dmitri (Neil Maskell). If he fails, or tries to seek help, they will kill Anna. Over the course of one thrilling, high-octane day, Matt must progress his way across London as a host of menacing characters and unpredictable situations test his resolve and push him to the limits. Starring Josh Bowman (Revenge), Will Houston (Sherlock Holmes), Leila Mimmack (High Rise) and Neil Maskell (The Football Factory), LEVEL UP is a truly unique, bold, distinct and unhinged British Thriller full of twists and turns and adrenaline-packed action.
Liam Neeson stars in a ferocious action thriller set at 40,000 feet high and 550 miles per hour. Co-starring Julianne Moore (Carrie) and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), NON-STOP is an action-packed thrill ride.
The Morgan Freeman Collection containing three of his best known films. Kiss The Girls: North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women he abducts but ""collecting"" them as trophies. Unfortunately his quarry includes the detective's own law-student niece so his race against time with the help of a no-nonsense medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who esca
After a traumatic ordeal acclaimed actress Emily Moore (Estella Warren Planet of the Apes) and her psychiatrist husband Robert (William Baldwin Sliver) escape on a relaxing vacation to a gorgeous remote Mediterranean island. But on the first night at the house a young girl (Sarah Butler I Spit on Your Grave) arrives blood on her hands and hysterical from the death of her boyfriend in a hiking accident. Robert offers to take in and help the young girl but her suggestive behavior makes Emily wonder if she might be a threat to their marriage… or her life.
Jo Harding seems to have the perfect life, until a fall down the stairs means her memories from the past year are erased. Every memory from the past twelve months gone. Her recovery is difficult, with vivid flashbacks, and overwhelming sense of confusion and anxiety.
The Robin Hood Of Modern Crime:That was how The Saint was often promoted to entice readers, and it's a theme that his creator Leslie Charteris returns to a number of times in his books and stories. It was the publication of The Saint In New York in 1935 that made Charteris an international name. The film rights were sold even before publication and - despite some problem with the American censors over its violent content - became a hit picture for RKO in 1938. Charteris wanted Ronald Colman, Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr for the role of Simon Templar. Instead, after Louis Hayward premiered the character, the much-respected George Sanders took on the role in four of the films, with Hugh Sinclair taking the lead in The Saint's Vacation and The Saint Meets The Tiger.The Saint Takes Over:The Saint plays a modern-day Robin Hood in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders.
Halle Berry and Bruce Willis star in this thriller about a reporter investigating the unsolved murder of one of her childhood friends.
One bird-twitcher heads out to the Suffolk mudflats looking for the elusive plover but he soon finds more than he bargained for when a bedraggled stranger shows up.
What would you do if your husband, wife or business partner was making your life unbearable, to the point where there was no alternative but to have them removed- permanently? Could you bring yourself to do it? If not, bored Kensington housewife Joan (Tracy Reed, cousin of Oliver and niece of Carol) offers a possible alternative- for a price, she and her highly trained, all-female hit squad will very discreetly 'take out' the offending party and leave no trace behind .In this dark, bleakly comic and sometimes grimly prophetic drama from Donovan Winter, which, like many of the best British exploitation films, features a story ripped from yesterday's headlines, we enter the lives of both assassin and victim, and discover that in the London of 1975, whether swanky Knightsbridge or deepest suburban Orpington, noone has immunity from murder, and everyone is expendable. Locations also take in the legendary Biba department store, shortly before its closure.As usual, Winter assembles a cast of great performers from both ends of the cinematic spectrum, with future TV stars Bernard Holley (Z Cars, Tripods, Thriller, Dr Who, Phoenix And The Carpet, Birds Of A Feather) Brian Jackson (Revenge Of The Pink Panther, Protectors, Persuaders, Escort Girls) and Rula Lenska (Rock Follies, Take A Letter Mr Jones, Cluedo, Dr Who, Leap In The Dark, Confessions) rubbing shoulders with seasoned blue movie names Heather Chasen and Steve Amber, the former of whom is now a respected actress in her own right. There's also a minor role for horror star Sally Faulkner (Prey, Vampyres, The Body Stealers) which the eagle-eyed amongst you will have fun spotting.Is it the Mafia? Is it the Triads? Is it the Illuminati? The Men In Black? No, it's The Deadly Females - and they've got your name on their books...
The British youth comedy of 2015 Legacy (starring Attack The Block's Franz Drameh) follows the hilarious misadventures of five school friends as they struggle against a local gangster-run rival event to throw the loudest largest wildest party in living memory. What would you do to get in?
From Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), stylish thriller Trance follows an unscrupulous art dealer who double crosses a criminal gang involved in the theft of a priceless masterpiece.
Two episodes from the popular TV detective series. The Dead Of Jericho Morse who never quite finds romance thinks that at last things will turn out differently when he meets beautiful Anne Stavely. But it is a love destined not to be when Anne is found hanging from a beam in mysterious circumstances. Morse suspects murder and sets out to discover the truth. Joining him is Sergeant Lewis and their investigation into 'The Dead Of Jericho' is the beginning of a lasting partn
And Hope to Die is a 1972 crime drama directed by Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Purple Noon). A French fugitive (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Z, The Conformist) heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned when the crime lords daughter they plan to kidnap accidently dies.
When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game and his killing spree to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper which could result in many innocent deaths. As the two teams race to find the killer before the two minute warning rings out signalling the start of his shooting the tension mounts.
A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.
Dead Sexy is yet another entry in the spurious "erotic thriller" genre. Although it attempts to pass itself off as a crime drama, the credibility of the whole affair is stretched somewhat by casting ex-Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed in the lead role of Detective Kate McBain, the police officer leading investigations into a suspected serial killer. This time, though, Tweed (who also produced the film) does a sterling job of both keeping her clothes on (most of the time) and acting her way through the movie. Every cliché in the book is utilised, but the movie might have stood up to repeated viewing if it took itself a little less seriously. As it is, the frequent sex scenes are crow-barred in to signal some sort of plot development as the whole thing moves towards its rather lame conclusion, unable to decide whether it wants to offer explicit adult entertainment or serious drama. Ultimately this is one for fans of Tweed, not those who relish a good whodunit. On the DVD: Dead Sexy is surprisingly high-budget and offers good picture and sound quality. Extras are limited to a filmography of Tweed and her wooden co-star John Enos, plus a theatrical trailer that does a fair job of summing up the movie's mix of sex and action. --Phil Udell
The Da Vinci Code: Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com Angels & Demons: If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley, Amazon.com
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