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Category Archives: Thriller

May 30th 2012: Notorious (1946)

Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brazil, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Clifford Odets, double cross, Ingrid Bergman, Miami, National Film Registry, Nazis, Rio De Janerio, RKO, uranium

May 22nd, 2012: Z (1969)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Political Thriller, Thriller Tagged assassination, assassination attempt, Best Actor (Cannes), Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing, Best Foreign Language Picture, Best Picture Nominee, car accident, car attack, coma, conspiracy, Costa-Gravas, coup, doctor, France, Greece, hospital, informer, Irene Pappas, it's not over, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, journalist, Jury Prize (Cannes), Palme D'Or Nominee, paramilitary group, political group, politician, reluctant witness, surgery, Yves Montand

May 20th, 2012: Rear Window (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged "no one believes me", Alfred Hitchcock, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, broken leg, Edith Head, Franz Waxman, Gene Kelly, Gig Young, James Stewart, murder, Paramount Pictures, photographer, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, voyeur, wheelchair

May 13th, 2012: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cults, Demons, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged apartment, Charles Grodin, creepy neighbors, D'Urville Martin, deal with the devil, demon, doctor, Elisha Cook Jr., Ira Levin, John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Mia Farrow, new home, old men, pregnancy, Ralph Bellamy, Roman Polanski, Ruth Gordon, Satan, satanism, Victoria Vetri, William Castle, William Castle Productions

May 12th, 2012: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Horror, Adaptation, Thriller, The Original, Silent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Stalker Tagged insanity, Universal Pictures, secret identity, obsessed fan, color sequence, opera, apprentice/mentor relationship, Paris, "Cast of Thousands", masquerade, Lon Chaney Sr., sewers, Norman Kerry, "Phantom of the", Carl Laemmle, Paris sewers, sewer lair, opera house

May 10th, 2012: The Unknown (1927)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Thriller Tagged amputation, body horror, circus, double amputee, double thumbs, insanity, jilted lover, Joan Crawford, knife thrower, Lon Chaney Sr., love triangle, MGM, Norman Kerry, on the lam, strongman, surgery, Tod Browning, twist

May 9th, 2012: Miller’s Crossing (1990)

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller Tagged "Looks like I'm just gonna have to Yojimbo it", 20th Century Fox, Albert Finney, alcoholic, Barry Sonnenfeld, before they were famous, Carter Burwell, double cross, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Gabriel Byrne, hit man, homage, J.E. Freeman, Joel Coen, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Badalucco, Michael Jeter, Mike Starr, mob, mob war, mobsters, moll, Sam Raimi, Steve Buscemi, tommy gun

May 5th, 2012: The Killing (1956)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Heist, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged athlete turned actor, bar fight, bartender, bookie, Coleen Grey, double cross, Elisha Cook Jr., femme fatale, flowers, horse racing, James Edwards, Jim Thompson, Joe Sawyer, Joe Turkel, loan shark, low-budget, non-linear timeline, racetrack, shotgun, sniper, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey, unfaithful spouse, United Artists, wrestler

April 26th, 2012: Titus (1999)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Play, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Political Thriller, Revenge, Tragedy Tagged Alan Cumming, Angus Macfadyen, Anthony Hopkins, Best Costume Design Nominee, Britain, cannibalism, Colm Feore, double cross, Goths, Harry Lennix, insanity, Italy, Jessica Lange, Julie Taymor, Queen, rape, Rome, William Shakespeare

April 13th, 2012: M (1931)

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5 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Cops, Crime, Drama, German Expressionism, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, child killer, Fritz Lang, Germany, Peter Lorre, police procedural, serial killer, trial

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