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Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 108 Films to Rent on DVD
- Ted K: The Unabomber (2021)
- Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Sharlto Copley
- An ambient, minimalistic approach to portraying the life of notorious U.S. domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who lives a life of quiet seclusion in…
- Incitement (2019)
- Dir. Yaron Zilberman
Feat. Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitai Yaish, Daniella Kertesz
- Tense, slow–building thriller depicting Israeli right–wing extremist Yigal Amir in the year leading up to his assassination of the…
- Beirut (The Negotiator) (2018)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris…
- Meaty old–school espionage thriller with John Hamm perfectly cast as a fixer turned business consultant in war torn Beirut, negotiating the…
- Hotel Mumbai (2018)
- Dir. Anthony Maras
Feat. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi…
- Gripping dramatisation of the 2008 siege of Mumbai's Taj Hotel, following the staff and guests as they fight to survive the merciless attack by a…
- Informer (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Jonny Campbell
Feat. Nabhaan Rizwan, Paddy Considine, Bel Powley
- A complex, character–driven thriller that follows a young East Londoner who is coerced into going undercover for a counter–terrorism…
- Little Drummer Girl, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Michael Shannon, Alexander Skarsgard, Florence Pugh…
- Korean master Park Chan–Wook directs this typically savvy adaptation of the novel by John le Carré that follows the life of a young English…
- Stockholm (2018)
- Dir. Robert Budreau
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong
- Serviceable crime thriller taking some entertaining liberties with the true story of the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm, often…
- Patriots Day (2016)
- Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon…
- Director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg follow DEEPWATER HORIZON with another gutsy dramatisation of a tragic American event, this time the 2013…
- Homeland - Season 5 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Mandy Patinkin
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Made in France (2015)
- Dir. Nicolas Boukhrief
Feat. Malik Zidi, Dimitri Storoge, François Civil
- Eerily predicting the November 2015 Paris attacks, this crime–thriller follows a journalist infiltrating a jihadist cell that plans to…
- Big Game (2014)
- Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Felicity Huffman…
- Bonkers actioner with Sam Jackson as the U.S. President relying on a teenager for aid after Air Force One crash lands in Finnish forest.
- Homeland - Season 4 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner…
- Kenneth Branagh directs the latest big screen installment in the adventures of Tom Clancy's hero CIA agent, Jack Ryan, this time revolving around a…
- Kindnapping Mr. Heineken (2014)
- Dir. Daniel Alfredson
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess…
- Bizarre true crime flick based on the successful kidnapping of the heir to the Heineken beer empire in the 1980's.
- Captain Phillips (2013)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener
- Paul Greengrass directs with exhilarating dramatic realism this gripping true account of the hijacking of a U.S. container ship by Somali pirates.
- Closed Circuit (2013)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent…
- A dangerous conflict of interest arises when two ex–lovers end up on opposite sides of a high profile terrorism trial in this probing courtroom…
- East, The (2013)
- Dir. Zal Batmanglij
Feat. Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard, Elliot Page…
- In this tense, thinking person's thriller from the writer and director behind SOUND OF MY VOICE, a covert operative attempts to infiltrate a group of…
- Homeland - Season 3 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- A Hijacking (2012)
- Dir. Tobias Lindholm
Feat. Mikkel Hartmann, Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling
- A Danish cargo ship is hijacked off the coast of Somalia in this gripping, intense maritime adventure that cuts out all the action heroics usually…
- Homeland - Season 2 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Reluctant Fundamentalist, The (2012)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber…
- A Pakistani Princeton graduate's life in America is shattered in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in this searing adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's…
- Siege (2012)
- Feat. Mark Mitchinson, Joel Tobeck, Kirk Torrance
- Napier's recent siege crisis in which small–time cannabis grower Jan Molenaar barricaded himself in his home after shooting a Senior Constable…
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler…
- Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER) directs this formidable thriller based on the CIA's decade–long manhunt for Osama bin Laden.
- Greetings to the Devil (2011)
- Dir. Juan Felipe Orozco
Feat. Édgar Ramírez, Ricardo Vélez, Carolina Gómez
- Fast and aggressive Colombian thriller stars the charismatic Édgar Ramírez, fresh off CARLOS, as a former guerrilla forced to hunt down and kill…
- Homeland - Season 1 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Anchored by Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile performance, this outstanding surveillance thriller centres on the return of an Iraq war hero…
- Kidnap and Ransom (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Trevor Eve, John Hannah, Helen Baxendale
- Muscular ITV hostage thriller, centred on an expert negotiator whose latest assignment comes unstuck in volatile South Africa. Carefully balances…
- Rebellion (2011)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi…
- A proficient, airtight geopolitical thriller from dir. Kassovitz, who also stars as the captain of a counterterrorist division sent to New Caledonia…
- Straw Dogs (2011)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard…
- Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 film is bleached, but certainly not bettered in this nasty remake that goes for broke in the violence stakes,…
- 24 - Season 8 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Final season of the high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Carlos (Carlos the Jackal) (2010)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Édgar Ramírez, Nora von Waldstätten, Alexander Scheer
- An explosive, globe–trotting biopic of Venezuelan terrorist and fugitive Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – aka Carlos the Jackal – whose exploits…
- Essential Killing (2010)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner
- Vincent Gallo plays a terrified Taliban fighter on the run from American forces in this oddly compelling chase movie, distinctive for its relentless…
- Unthinkable (2010)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen…
- Troubling psychological thriller with Sheen as a terrorist suspect who won't divulge the whereabouts of rogue nuclear weapons, Jackson and Moss…
- Disappearance of Alice Creed, The (2009)
- Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston
- Nominally another addition to the flavorless torture genre, this ransom drama centred on the abduction of a millionaire's daughter by two…
- Incendiary (2009)
- Dir. Sharon Maguire
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Thriller set in the aftermath of a terrorist strike in London, based on the novel by Chris Cleave. Though it boasts a typically fine Michelle…
- Taking Of Pelham 123, The (2009)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzman
- Flashy remake of the 70s heist movie sees John Travolta as the mastermind behind the hijack of a New York subway train, and Denzel Washington as the…
- 24 - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- 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…
- Baader Meinhof Complex, The (2008)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek…
- A big–budget, pulse–pounding account of terrorism and political protest in 1960s and 70s Germany, centred on the notorious Red Army…
- Body Of Lies (2008)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Vince Colosimo…
- Double–crossing political thriller starring DiCaprio as a street–savvy US intelligence operative at the beck and (phone)call of a CIA…
- Cactus (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 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 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 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…
- Julia (2008)
- 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 (2008)
- 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…
- Shuttle (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…
- Traitor (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 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) (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…
- Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, Maria Bello
- Tantalising thriller centred on a couple whose idyllic existence is shattered when their daughter is kidnapped by a man (Brosnan) with increasingly…
- Extraordinary Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Jim Threapleton
Feat. Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni, Ania Sowinski
- Topical, slightly underdone small–budget political thriller tracks a forward thinking UK teacher who is abducted and brutally tortured in an…
- He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
- Dir. Frank A. Cappello
Feat. Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy
- With his best role in donkey's years, Christian Slater stars in this bleakly satirical drama as a frustrated loner who decides to take out his anger…
- Hunting Party, The (2007)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, James Brolin…
- Action–packed serio–comic political thriller in the spirit of THREE KINGS centres on the shaggy dog story of an intrepid trio of…
- Nobel Son (2007)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy…
- Peppy crime caper about a recent Nobel Prize winner whose son is kidnapped and ransomed for the $2 million prize money.
Directed with whiz, pop,…
- Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Frenetic thriller by dir. of TSOTSI concerns Witherspoon's desperate search for her husband after he goes missing on an international flight,…
- Shoot on Sight (2007)
- Dir. Jag Mundhra
Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri…
- Not so much hot potato as lukewarm, this political thriller bases its story on the real–life shooting of an innocent Brazilian man gunned down…
- Trade (2007)
- Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicia Bachleda…
- Grimy drama sees a 13–year–old–girl kidnapped by sex traffickers, prompting her older brother to set off in pursuit aided by Texas…
- 24 - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- 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…
- Civic Duty (2006)
- Dir. Jeff Renfroe
Feat. Peter Krause, Richard Schiff
- Post–9/11 paranoia and propaganda combine to arouse the suspicions of a newly–redundant accountant (SIX FEET UNDER's Krause), who…
- Deja Vu (2006)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel
- More flash and bang from blockbuster teamsters Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott, here devising a series of brute action sequences around a…
- Fay Grim (2006)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Thomas Jay Ryan…
- This unlikely sequel to HENRY FOOL finds Parker Posey deep undercover for the CIA, dispatched to France to recover her ex–husband’s (ruffian…
- Five Fingers (2006)
- Dir. Laurence Malkin
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne, Colm Meaney…
- Hostage drama with a few surprises up its sleeve has Dutch pianist (Phillippe) on a charity trip to Morocco who gets abducted by Moroccan terrorists…
- Infinite Justice (2006)
- Dir. Jamil Dehlavi
Feat. Kevin Collins, Raza Jaffrey
- Following in the footsteps of A MIGHTY HEART, this vigorous political thriller inspired by the Daniel Pearl case follows an investigative journalist…
- Inside Man (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…
- Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
- Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry…
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
- Unit, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. David Mamet, various
Feat. Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, Robert Patrick…
- The brainchild of David Mamet, this riveting black–ops suspenser serialises the daring assignments of a covert special forces team who, under…
- Unknown (2006)
- Dir. Simon Brand
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan…
- Unbelievably twisty, indie hostage thriller in the tradition of RESERVOIR DOGS and The USUAL SUSPECTS.
Five men awake bloody and beaten in a…
- 24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Hidden (Cache) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou…
- A disquieting modern thriller that pulls no punches, depositing a climate of terrorism and fear onto the lives of two French professionals and their…
- Hostage (2005)
- Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
Feat. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker…
- Bruce Willis negotiates familiar territory as a SWAT agent drawn into a messy siege in a high–security mansion, where three white–trash…
- Munich (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz…
- Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…
- Paradise Now (2005)
- Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
- This extraordinarily brave film shadows the martyrdom of two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bombing in…
- Red Eye (2005)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
- Dir. Wes Craven whittles a lean, claustrophobic thriller around the plight of a woman (McAdams), menaced onboard of short–haul plane flight by…
- Secuestro Express (2005)
- Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz
Feat. Mia Maestro, Ruben Blades
- Venezuela comes off second best in this exploitative thriller peddling the country's professional kidnapping trade, where a couple of wealthy young…
- Sorry, Haters (2005)
- Dir. Jeff Stanzler
Feat. Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez…
- The after–effects of September 11 act as a racially–charged backdrop to this low–budget thriller set on the mean streets of New…
- 24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- 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…
- Cellular (2004)
- Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham…
- Interesting abduction thriller leads with a premise that has flaky beachbum Evans rung on his cellphone with a chilling message from a kidnap victim…
- Clearing, The (2004)
- Dir. Pieter Jan Brugge
Feat. Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren…
- An unusually flavoured and structured kidnapping thriller, in which wealthy entrepeneur Redford is abducted by a polite, former–employee…
- Grid, The (Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Julianne Margulies, Bernard Hill…
- Solid and swiftly moving mini–series in which members of multiple security and intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, M16, M15, NSC...) attempt to…
- Man on Fire (2004)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell…
- A hard–eyed revenge thriller which sees an alcoholic bodyguard (Washington) losing a 11–yr old girl he's assigned to protect in Mexico…
- Spartan (2004)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy…
- An expert 'special ops' agent (Kilmer) is sucked headfirst into a wild, yet plausible conspiracy involving the kidnapping of the US president's…
- 24 - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- 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…
- Blind Flight (2003)
- Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache
- True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
- Tears of the Sun (2003)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser…
- Bruce Willis leads the charge in a 'Special Ops' mission in war–ravaged Nigeria.
Assigned to rescue a UN doctor (Belluci!) he and his squad…
- 24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
- Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)
- Dir. John Malkovich
Feat. Javier Bardem
- John Malkovich debuts as a director with this slow–burn police thriller played out in the humid atmosphere of an unamed South American…
- John Q (2002)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ray Liotta, Robert Duvall…
- Denzel Washington plays a cash–strapped pillar–of–decency who can’t afford his son’s heart–transplant in the mercenary US…
- Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
- Dir. Phillip Alden Anderson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall
- A nightmarish post–9/11 thriller from Tom Clancy, with Ben Affleck taking the place of Harrison Ford as CIA–man Jack Ryan, here hunting…
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Doona Bae
- Incredibly bleak suspenser witnesses the disastrous efforts of a deaf–mute man and his girlfriend (who is on the fringes of a terrorist cell)…
- Don't Say a Word (2001)
- Dir. Gary Fleder
Feat. Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Jennifer Esposito…
- “Threatened–family” thriller, with psychiatrist Michael Douglas rising to the challenge – outwit the kidnappers of his daughter, who…
- Way of the Gun (2001)
- Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis…
- A kidnap–chase down Mexico way, featuring “live–by–the–gun” crims Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillipe and abductee…
- Proof of Life (2000)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse
- South American ransom thriller with Meg Ryan seeking to extricate her rich husband (David Morse) from the jungle, and Russell Crowe as the…
- Negotiator, The (1998)
- Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, J.T. Walsh
- A touch angry after being framed for corruption, Samuel L. Jackson kidnaps the responsible party and squares off against the formidable eyeballs of…
- Ransom (1996)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise…
- Kidnappers post a nasty ultimatum to airline mogul Mel Gibson, who didn't get to where he is today by responding kindly to threats.
Hi–gloss…
- Bullet to Beijing (1995)
- Dir. George Mihalka
Feat. Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara…
- Fourth outing for Michael Caine as the dog–eared spy Harry Palmer, sent to Moscow, this time to recover a stolen 'Doomsday'–style…
- Hidden Agenda (1990)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…
- Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
- Corrupt (a.k.a Copkiller; Order Of Death; L'assassino Dei Poliziotti) (1983)
- Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia…
- Surprisingly intense thriller has Harvey Keitel playing a dodgy NYC detective taunted by disturbed youth John Lydon (formerly 'Johnny Rotten' of the…
- Night Hawks (1981)
- Dir. Bruce Malmuth
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer…
- Two undercover NYC cops are faced with the unenviable task of tracking down Europe's number one terrorist in this underrated 80's action flick.…
- Octagon, The (1980)
- Dir. Eric Karson
Feat. Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef…
- Economical Chuck Norris martial arts adventure focusing on a retired karate champion recruited to take out a group of Central American terrorists he…
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
- Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
- Bullet Train, The (1975)
- Dir. Jun'ya Sato
Feat. Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba
- Unstoppable, no–holds–barred action vehicle finds Sonny Chiba steering a passenger train rigged with a bomb to explode if its speed drops…
- Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
- Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…
- Murder On Flight 502 (1975)
- Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Robert Stack, Farrah Fawcett, Fernando Lamas…
- A cheesy yet effective '70s disaster flick that terrified viewers when it first aired as an American TV movie. A passenger is murdered on board a…
- Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
- Terrorists, The (Ransom) (1974)
- Dir. Caspar Wrede
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham
- Improbable thriller with Connery as a Norwegian colonel charged with liberating a plane full of hostages in the "country" of Scandinavia.
- Straw Dogs (1971)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Susan George
- With dir. Sam Peckinpah in top form, this powerful study of male territorial instincts pushed out the boundaries of movie violence in the…
- Targets (1967)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Bogdanovich
- The influential first feature from a young Peter Bogdanovich, that effectively contrasts the story of a retiring horror actor (played by Boris…
- High and Low (1963)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- Adapted from a crime–novel by Ed McBain, this kidnapping–thriller is a central work in dir. Kurosawa’s series of film noirs, combining…