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Contemporary Film / Thriller
Contemporary thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat with their relentless sense of danger and unpredictable plots. Increasingly sophisticated narratives and topical themes make for great story telling. Scorsese, Tarantino and the Coen Brothers continue to impress. Recommended Contemporary Film / Thriller Films
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No Country for Old Men2007, Joel & Ethan Coen, DVD The Coen brothers' stripped down and gritty chase thriller has a Vietnam vet desperately trying to give the slip to a relentless killer. While out hunting in the barren wilds of Texas, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the aftermath of a drugs...
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Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, DVD A gripping, deadly and surprising thriller in which game-loving writer of detective stories Andrew Wyke invites his wife's lover, Italian English hairdresser Milo Tindle, to visit his isolated house, to participate in a deadly battle of wits. Afte...
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The Page Turner2006, Denis Dercourt, DVD With her musical ambitions thwarted by the thoughtless behaviour of the chairwoman of the jury at her entrance exam, Mélanie gives up the piano. Ten years later she comes into contact with the woman's husband who notices her efficiency and invites...
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Eastern Promises2007, David Cronenberg, DVD Cronenberg's London-set thriller stars Viggo Mortensen on career-best form as a Russian mobster whose only ambition is to pull himself up the mafia hierarchy, where status is marked with increasingly elaborate coded tattoos. Eastern Promises is...
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Chinatown (Special Collectors Edition)1974, Roman Polanski, DVD One of the darkest of the retro private dick movies, Polanski's odyssey through corridors of corrupt city fathers, damaged women and dirty water was the perfect project for Nicholson in all his disaffected glory.
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The Good German2007, Steven Soderbergh, DVD One of mainstream cinema's most tirelessly inventive directors, Steven Soderbergh delivers another big-budget stylistic experiment with The Good German. This time around, Soderbergh's target is 1940s film noir. Set in post-war Berlin, the atmosphe...
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The Conformist1970, Bernardo Bertolucci, DVD The style manual for 1970s cinema (every frame is a masterclass in lighting, colour and composition) is also a gripping political thriller in its own right, as nondescript functionary Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is forced to become a...
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 Dont Look Now (Special Edition)1973, Nicolas Roeg, DVD Roeg's best film, this is a stunningly well-crafted analysis of a married couple who, devastated by the loss of their young daughter, go to Venice to try to reconstruct their lives. Perfect performances by Sutherland and Christie as the leads, a c...
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Michael Clayton2007, Tony Gilroy, DVD George Clooney stars as Michael Clayton, a man called in to save a court case put in jeopardy by a lawyer (Tom Wilkinson) who appears to have lost his mind. Tony Gilroy, one of the minds behind the screenplays for the Bourne films, makes his direc...
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 Babel (1 disc)2006, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, DVD In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, an American couple are plunged into a frantic struggle for survival, as their stories become intertwined with two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico wit...
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 The Conversation1974, Francis Ford Coppola, DVD One of Coppola's greatest films, this dark and unsettling conspiracy thriller about surveillance and paranoia was released prior to the Watergate scandal breaking but must have seemed chillingly prescient. Hackman's astonishing performance as the ...
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Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)2006, David Fincher, DVD David Fincher’s adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously unsolved Zodiac killer mystery. As a murderer with seemingly random ...
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One Deadly Summer1983, Jean Becker, DVD Aka L'Été Meutrier. A beautiful and moody nineteen-year old who returns to the quiet Provence village near her birthplace bent on revenge for a crime that happened nineteen summers before. A genuinely good thriller with decent photography and dire...
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Come and See1985, Elem Klimov, DVD Hailed as one of the greatest war films ever made, this is a hallucinatory cinematic experience that does for World War II what Apocalypse Now did for the Vietnamese conflict. The film also includes some of the most frighteningly realistic battle ...
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Notes on a Scandal2006, Richard Eyre, DVD Barbara Covett (Dench), a domineering and solitary teacher at a run-down London secondary school, soon latches onto the new art teacher, Sheba Hart (Blanchett). But when Barbara discovers Sheba is having an affair with a student, she gains a means...
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