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American cinema: Thriller

The Final Conflict (1981)
Graham Baker

The world is in the grip of recession and tensions in the Middle East are rising amidst a diplomatic crisis. One man can lead the way forwards, guiding mankind to a better future...   [More...]

The Firm (1993)
Sydney Pollack

Just as he is about to graduate from Harvard Law School with honours, Mitch McDeere finds himself inundated with lucrative job offers...   [More...]

Flash Gordon (1980)
Mike Hodges

Intent on destroying the planet Earth for his own wicked amusement, the Emperor Ming the Merciless instigates a series of catastrophes which are taken to be natural disasters...   [More...]

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Robert Aldrich

Frank Towns is piloting a small plane laden with passengers and cargo across the Sahara Desert when a sandstorm brews up, knocking the aircraft off course by several hundred miles and bringing it down...   [More...]

The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter

Antonio Bay, a small Californian fishing town, is about to mark its one hundredth anniversary. On the eve of the centennial celebrations, the town's pastor, Father Malone, finds an old diary in which he uncovers a terrible secret...   [More...]

Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Richard Fleischer

Police lieutenant Harry Grant is on the trail of a serial killer who sees himself as an avenging angel, strangling people he considers are immoral and depraved...   [More...]

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Fred M. Wilcox

In the year 2200, a United Planets expedition led by Commander Adams arrives on Altair-4 to investigate the unexplained disappearance of an Earth colony...   [More...]

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock

At the request of his editor, New York crime reporter Johnny Jones travels to London to cover the deteriorating political situation in Europe...   [More...]

The Formula (1980)
John G. Avildsen

When Thomas Neely, a former police officer, is found dead at his Los Angeles home, his old friend Lieutenant Barney Caine is assigned to investigate his murder...   [More...]

Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski

Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper...   [More...]

The Freshman (1990)
Andrew Bergman

Clark Kellogg leaves his home in Vermont to study film at New York University. His first week in the city gets off to a promising start when everything he possesses is stolen by crooked taxi driver Victor Ray...   [More...]

Friday the 13th (1980)
Sean S. Cunningham

On Friday 13th June, some time in the late 1970s, a group of young people are busy renovating an old camp site which is due to be reopened...   [More...]

Gaslight (1944)
George Cukor

Shortly after their marriage, Gregory Anton persuades his wife Paula that he has a burning desire to live in the centre of London...   [More...]

The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah

Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon...   [More...]

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Erle C. Kenton

It has been several years since the village of Frankenstein was terrorised by a rampaging monster, but the locals are still haunted by the curse of their troubled past...   [More...]

Gilda (1946)
Charles Vidor

Not long after his arrival in Buenos Aires, crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is hired by the wealthy entrepreneur Ballin Mundson to work in his illicit casino...   [More...]

The Glass Key (1942)
Stuart Heisler

Former crook Paul Madvig offers his services as the electoral agent for the scrupulously honest Ralph Henry in the coming mayoral elections - partly to show he is a reformed character, but also so that he can win the girl he loves, Henry's daughter Janet...   [More...]

The Glass Web (1953)
Jack Arnold

Don Newell is the lead writer on a popular television show Crime of the Week, which reconstructs recent criminal incidents as authentically as possible...   [More...]

The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola

Summer, 1945. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of five gangster families operating in New York, known to his associates as The Godfather...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola

Sicily, 1901. When Antonio Andolini is killed by Mafia chief Don Ciccio, his wife pleads with the latter to spare her only remaining son Vito...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Francis Ford Coppola

In 1979, Michael Corleone appears to be a reformed character. As he nears his 60th birthday, he has almost completely severed his links with the Mafia and now presides as the head of a wholly legitimate business empire...   [More...]

GoldenEye (1995)
Martin Campbell

British agent James Bond is sent to Monte Carlo to tail Xenia Onatopp, a member of the mysterious Janus crime syndicate. Bond fails to prevent Onatopp and her associate General Ourumov from stealing a revolutionary new helicopter which is capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse...   [More...]

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Henry Hill is easily seduced into a life of crime. Lured by easy money and the glamour of the mob, he runs errands for local mobster Paul Cicero and before he knows it he is a fully paid up gangster, raking in cash with his associates Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito...   [More...]

Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter

On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois...   [More...]

Halloween II (1981)
Rick Rosenthal

Michael Myers has been shot dead by Dr Loomis, or so it seemed on that fateful Halloween night in 1978. When Loomis and Sheriff Brackett fail to find the killer's body, it is apparent that he is still very much alive and will almost certainly strike again...   [More...]

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Rick Rosenthal

When she realises that she has decapitated a paramedic instead of the killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode suffers a mental collapse...   [More...]

Hangover Square (1945)
John Brahm

In the early 1900s, the well-known English composer George Harvey Bone is working hard to complete his magnum opus, a piano concerto dedicated to his fiancée...   [More...]

The Harder They Fall (1956)
Mark Robson

Down-at-heel sportswriter Eddie Willis accepts a commission from crooked boxing promoter Nick Benko to publicise an unknown heavyweight boxer Toro Moreno...   [More...]

The Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise

Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena...   [More...]

High Anxiety (1977)
Mel Brooks

Dr Richard H. Thorndyke, an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist, is proud to take up the post of director at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous...   [More...]



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