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Subgenre Sampler

 
CactusCactus (2008)
Dir. Jasmine Yuen Carrucan
Feat. Travis McMahon, Bryan Brown, Shane Jacobson
Claustrophobic Aussie thriller pitting a kidnapper and his captive against each other in a battle of wills while travelling through the scorching…
Eagle EyeEagle Eye (2008)
Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson
Derivative but entertaining cyber–thriller in which a young man and single mother get framed as terrorists and find themselves unexpectedly…
Fifty Dead Men WalkingFifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Dir. Kari Skogland
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers
Sharp docu–drama with Jim Sturgess as Irishman Martin McGartland, charged with infiltrating the IRA during the 1980s. Tense action sequences…
I Come with the RainI Come with the Rain (2008)
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Elias Koteas, Tran Nu Yen-Khe
Dir. Tran Anh Hung revives the humid, squalored atmosphere of his acclaimed CYCLO with this stylish, heavy–handed international noir. Josh…
JuliaJulia (2008) Recommended
Dir. Erick Zonca
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
Gutsy, dynamic melodrama propelled by a full–tilt performance from Tilda Swinton as a loose cannon alcoholic who becomes embroiled in…
Restraint Restraint (2008) Recommended
Dir. David Denneen
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel
Gripping, stripped–back thriller from across the ditch, in which an agoraphobic toff is taken hostage by a young couple on the run from the…
ShuttleShuttle (2008)
Dir. Edward Anderson
Feat. Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman
An airport shuttle ride turn into a nightmare for its nubile passengers in this tightly contained indie adbuction thriller from first–time…
TraitorTraitor (2008)
Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Feat. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui
Don Cheadle stars as a Semtex racketeer selling to the highest bidder – be he CIA or Jihadist – and finds himself a pawn on the twin…
Vantage PointVantage Point (2008)
Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid
Tipsy, time–swapping political thriller cribs liberally from RASHOMON and TV–terrorist heart–stopper 24 in congealing multiple…
24 - Season 6 (TV Series)24 - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…

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