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The Killer (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 27, 2023

Review 118min Genre:       Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Director:     David Fincher Cast:         Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell…and more Writers:     Andrew Kevin Walker, Alexis Nolent, Luc Jacamon -Synopsis- A skilled and meticulous assassin who finally fails to stick to the plan is forced into hiding when an assignment goes wrong, only to be drawn into a […]

Last Night in Soho (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2021

Review 116min Genre:       Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director:     Edgar Wright Cast:         Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith…and more Writers:     Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns -Synopsis- A young small town aspiring British fashion designer heads to the capital and mysteriously drifts between the present day and the swinging London of the 1960s, where she forges […]

The Harder They Fall (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 8, 2021

Review 130min Genre:       Action, Thriller, Western Director:     Jeymes Samuel Cast:         Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors…and more Writers:     Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin -Synopsis- In the old American west, a vengeful outlaw assembles his rag-tag crew for some payback on his fearsome recently-released enemy and his own gang, in this classic yet modern ensemble […]

The Devil All the Time (2020)

Posted by Gui on September 18, 2020

Review 138min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:   Antonio Campos Cast:       Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård…and more Writers:   Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos and Donald Ray Pollock -Synopsis- In the churches and backwoods of god-fearing, post-war small town Ohio and West Virginia, the lives and ill deeds of corrupt and nefarious locals intersect with a […]

Bacurau (2019) (Portuguese & English Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on March 1, 2020

Review 131min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:   Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast:       Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Sônia Braga…and more Writers:   Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho -Synopsis- In the arid rural Northeast of Brazil, the residents of Bacurau begin to experience strange happenings after the death of the village’s elderly matriarch, only to […]

First Love (2019) (Japanese Language)

Posted by Gui on February 17, 2020

Review 108min Genre:        Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance Director:      Takashi Miike Cast:          Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Becky…and more Writers:      Masa Nakamura -Synopsis- After receiving a bleak diagnosis, a young Japanese boxer’s life is forever changed when he inadvertently gets caught in the middle of a Yakuza drug-smuggling conspiracy and gang war, after he meets a […]

Judy & Punch (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2019

Review 105min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Mirrah Foulkes Cast:         Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Benedict Hardie…more Writers:     Mirrah Foulkes -Synopsis- In puritanical 17th century England, an irresponsible father and manipulative self-centred puppeteer takes out his shortcomings and alcoholism on his wife and baby, only to face a reckoning when she returns with new purpose as an […]

Cold Pursuit (2019)

Posted by Gui on February 22, 2019

Review 119min Genre:       Action, Crime, Thriller Director:    Hans Petter Moland Cast:         Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman…and more Writers:     Frank Baldwin and Kim Fupz Aakeson -Synopsis- When an unassuming and dedicated local snowplow driver’s son is brutally murdered by a Colorado druglord, he discovers a talent for cold-blooded revenge, destroying what’s left of his family […]

Burning (Korean Language) (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 1, 2019

Review 148min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    Lee Chang-dong Cast:         Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo…and more Writers:     Jungmi Oh, Lee Chang-dong and Haruki Murakami -Synopsis- A lonely young Korean man’s childhood friendship is rekindled when he’s reunited with a former neighbour, only to have his world uprooted when a successful and mysterious man— with […]

Assassination Nation (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2018

Review 108min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:  Sam Levinson Cast:       Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse…and more Writer:    Sam Levinson -Synopsis- When modern technology and a voyeuristic culture conspire to destroy the last semblance of privacy in American suburbia, the residents of Salem lose their minds and unleash pure unadulterated mayhem, as a quartet of […]

Mandy (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2018

Review 121min Genre:     Action , Horror , Thriller Director:  Panos Cosmatos Cast:       Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache…and more Writers:   Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn -Synopsis- Broken by loss and hell bent on revenge, a man seeks bloody vengeance on the sinister cult and charismatic leader who took from him the love of his life, […]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Posted by Gui on July 29, 2018

Review 147min Genre:       Action, Adventure, Thriller Director:    Christopher McQuarrie Cast:         Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson…and more Writer:      Christopher McQuarrie -Synopsis- Hunted by his government and pitted against a dangerous old foe, IMF super-agent ‘Ethan Hunt’ and his team return for their deadliest and riskiest mission to date, plunged into a race against […]

You Were Never Really Here (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on March 3, 2018

Review 85min Genre:    Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director: Lynne Ramsay Cast:      Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola…more Writers:  Jonathan Ames and Lynne Ramsay -Synopsis- When a troubled brutal enforcer/private investigator takes on a case tracking down a missing girl, he gets caught up in a dark conspiracy which takes him down a deep and dark rabbit […]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on October 30, 2017

Review 120min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:    Yorgos Lanthimos Cast:         Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan…and more Writers:     Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou -Synopsis- A successful surgeon and family man’s life takes a downward spiral after he’s drawn into the world of a troubled young patient and is forced to make an inconceivable choice . […]

The Salesman (2016) (Persian Language)

Posted by Gui on March 16, 2017

Review 125min Genre:      Drama, Mystery Director:   Asghar Farhadi Cast:        Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi…and more Writer:     Asghar Farhadi -Synopsis- Writer/director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past) recent Oscar-winning foreign language drama tells the story of the breakdown of a middle-class Iranian couple’s relationship after a mysterious and harrowing trauma, as they begin an amateur […]

Brimstone (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2016

148min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western Director:    Martin Koolhoven Cast:         Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Carice van Houten…and more Writer:      Martin Koolhoven -Synopsis- Dakota Fanning stars in the 19th century American frontier tale of a young mute mother, whose life is thrown into turmoil by the appearance of a commanding and sinister reverend in her small […]

Nocturnal Animals (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 20, 2016

117min Genre:        Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:     Tom Ford Cast:          Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon…and more Writer:       Tom Ford and Austin Wright -Synopsis- Fashion designer Tom Ford’s second directorial outing is an ensemble dramatic thriller adapted from Austin Wright’s novel “Tony & Susan”; starring Amy Adams as a wealthy art dealer and divorcee, whose life […]

Down Under (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 6, 2016

90min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Abe Forsythe Cast:         Lincoln Younes, Rahel Romahn, Alexander England…more Writer:      Abe Forsythe -Synopsis- In the aftermath of the 2005 race riots in the “Cronulla” suburb of Sydney; fuelled by fear and hatred, a misfit group of vengeful Lebanese-Australians are on a collision course with a motley crew of white working-class […]

Jane Got a Gun (2016)

Posted by Gui on April 20, 2016

Review 98min Genre:      Western, Drama Director:   Gavin O’Connor Cast:        Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor…and more Writers:    Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis & Joel Edgerton -Synopsis- In the post civil-war American west; a Southern belle recruits an old flame to help protect her reformed outlaw husband from his brutal ex-gang and their ruthless leader in this […]

The Revenant (2016) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on January 15, 2016

Review 156min Genre:     Fact-based, Adventure, Drama, Thriller Director:  Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast:       Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson…and more Writers:   Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith & Michael Punke Oscar-winning writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s semi-biographical survival drama set in the unforgiving 19th century American frontier, starring  Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper on […]

The Gift (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on August 8, 2015

Review 108min Genre:     Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:  Joel Edgerton Cast:       Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall…and more Writer:    Joel Edgerton Simon’s idyllic life with his beautiful wife in their new home is thrown into turmoil when a bizarre old high-school acquaintance enters his life bearing mysterious gifts that reveal a terrible secret, a psychological […]

The Salvation (2014) (English & Danish Language)

Posted by Gui on April 17, 2015

Review 92min Genre:      Western, Drama, Action Director:   Kristian Levring Cast:        Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan…and more Writers:    Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen A Danish immigrant in the late 19th century American west finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless outlaw when he kills the gang leader’s brother for murdering his wife and […]