Review 92min Genre:      Action, Thriller Director:   James Watkins Cast:        Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon…and more Writer:     Andrew Baldwin An American pickpocket in Paris is on the run after being unwittingly implicated in a terrorist attack, hunted by a hard-nosed CIA super agent, together they form a unwilling alliance to unravel a conspiracy which […]

Director Nicolas Winding Refn applies his aesthetic stylings to a story about a vapid modern society’s obsession with youth and beauty, starring Elle Fanning as a young aspiring model who’s faced with the dark reality of a town and industry intent on bleeding her dry. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Elle Fanning, Christina […]

Review 102min Genre:         War, Drama, Thriller Director:      Gavin Hood Cast:           Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman…and more Writer:        Guy Hibbert -Synopsis- Drone warfare thriller starring Dame Helen Mirren as a British military officer whose African mission to capture suspected terrorists turns into an assassination strike with dire consequences for the innocent, a modern-conflict drama […]

Review 138min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:    Sebastian Schipper Cast:         Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski…and more Writers:     Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm… and more -Synopsis- On a night out; a lonely young Spanish girl sparks-up a potential romance and friendship with a Berliner and his rogue friends, but her hazy dream turns into a nightmare […]

Review 103min Genre:     Sci-fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:  Dan Trachtenberg Cast:       Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr. Writers:   Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken & Damien Chazelle -Synopsis- After being saved from a serious car accident, a young woman finds herself trapped in a secure bunker with her rescuer, unsure if her saviour is also […]

Review 93min Genre:      Horror, Thriller Director:   Jason Zada Cast:        Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa…and more Writers:    Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell & Ben Ketai -Synopsis- After the disappearance of her twin, a young American woman is drawn to a dark and notorious Japanese forest where she will face terror and her inner demons to discover […]

Review 115min Genre:       Crime, Action, Thriller Director:    John Hillcoat Cast:         Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet…and more Writer:      Matt Cook -Synopsis- A skilled armed robbery crew of ex-mercenaries and dirty cops is blackmailed by a brutal Russian crime boss into pulling a dangerous heist, but as a plan to kill a cop to create a […]

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 […]

Review 121min Genre:    Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast:      Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin…and more Writer:   Taylor Sheridan Emily Blunt stars as an ambitious FBI agent whose moral compass is challenged by a complex US government operation to fight the escalating so-called “war on drugs”, as legal and moral lines are […]

Review 94min Genre:     Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director:  M. Night Shyamalan Cast:       Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan…and more Writer:    M. Night Shyamalan A young brother and sister are invited to spend time visiting their single mother’s estranged parents in the country, as they try to connect with their grandparents and discover why their mother became […]

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 […]

Review 131min Genre:      Action, Adventure, Thriller Director:   Christopher McQuarrie Cast:        Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner…and more Writers:    Christopher McQuarrie, Drew Pearce and Bruce Geller After secret agency the “IMF” is terminated for misconduct and super-agent Ethan Hunt is branded a “rogue agent”, with a little help from some old friends and some new ones […]

Review 91min Genre:     Action, Thriller Director:  Jean-Baptiste Léonetti Cast:       Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Ronny Cox…and more Writers:   Robb White and Stephen Susco A ruthless high-rolling executive hires a young tracker to lead a hunting trip in the most unforgiving part of the Mojave Desert, when tragedy strikes things take dangerous turn leaving the tracker struggling […]

Review 137min Genre:      Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:   Daniel Espinosa Cast:        Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman…and more Writers:    Richard Price, Tom Rob Smith Former war hero and MGB (Soviet secret police) agent Leo Demidov is a top operator in Stalin’s Soviet internal security service but when he is betrayed by the system he worked to […]

Review 102min Genre:      War, Drama, Thriller Director:   Andrew Niccol Cast:        Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood…and more Writer:     Andrew Niccol Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Boyhood) stars as Major Egan, a stern and decorated US Air Force pilot turned “drone” operator who struggles with responsibilities of conducting deadly warfare behind a computer screen, from the safety […]

Review 101min Genre:      Action, Thriller Director:   Chad Stahelski Cast:        Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Willem Dafoe…and more Writer:     Derek Kolstad A retired legendary assassin mourning for his dead wife is forced back into action when Russian gangsters take the last thing in the world that he holds dear, as Keanu Reeves stars as ‘John Wick’ in […]

114min Genre:     Action, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller Director:  Stephen Daldry Cast:       Rickson Tevez, Rooney Mara, Wagner Moura…and more Writers:   Richard Curtis, Felipe Braga & Andy Mulligan Set in the streets and slums of modern day Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), three poor teenagers discover something in the city dump which places them in the middle of […]

108min Genre:      Sci-fi, Drama, Thriller Director:   Alex Garland Cast:        Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander…and more Writer :     Alex Garland A mysterious tech-company mogul entices one of his young programmer employees to evaluate a revolutionary artificial intelligence experiment in the form of a beautiful young female machine, the results are disturbing if not unexpected. Award-winning […]

2014 has been a great year for film, from varied action blockbusters to comic-book titans to quirky comedies, in particular it’s truly been the “year of the thriller” with diverse contributions to the genre from ’71 and Fury to Gone Girl and Nightcrawler. FilmPhonic chronicles the people, events and films that have shaped the movie […]

Following a great and varied year of film in 2014, we break down 12 of the must-see films released in the UK and worldwide in the first half of 2015.   January   Foxcatcher Image Source: Annapurna Pictures Genre: Drama, Fact-Based UK Release: 9th of January 2015 Having been the hit of film festivals and […]

115min Genre:    Action, Drama, Thriller Director: Kevin Macdonald Cast:      Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn …and more Writers:  Dennis Kelly Jude Law stars as a down-on-his-luck Scottish submarine captain forced to take a job searching the bottom of the Black Sea to find a Nazi U-Boat filled with gold, tensions rise between his multinational crew […]

169min Genre:    Sci-fi, Adventure, Drama Director: Christopher Nolan Cast:      Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway … Writers:  Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan Planet earth has become a dust-bowl with humanity struggling to grow enough food to survive and where farmers are valued above others, Cooper a former space-pilot engineer joins a group of scientists on humanity’s […]

117min Genre:    Thriller, Drama, Crime Director: Dan Gilroy Cast:      Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed …and more Writers:  Dan Gilroy A desperate and obsessive man stumbles upon the world of on-the-scene crime reporting on the streets of L.A. and becomes obsessed with making it in the world of local news, fuelled by sensationalist local news […]

99min Genre:    Drama, Thriller, War Director: Yann Demange Cast:      Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson …and more Writers:  Gregory Burke A young private in the British army is deployed to 1970s Northern Ireland at the height of “The Troubles” to help control the volatile streets of West Belfast, only to find himself cut-off from his […]

149min Genre:    Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Director: David Fincher Cast:      Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon …and more Writer:   Gillian Flynn A big city writer and his wife are forced to move back to his small-town roots to the detriment of their marriage only to find that his wife goes missing and is […]

114 min Genre:     Drama, Thriller, Crime Director:  Scott Frank Cast:       Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour…and more Writers:   Scott Frank , Lawrence Block Set in the late 90’s, Liam Neeson stars as a tough New York ex-cop turned private investigator hired by a drug-lord to track down the men who kidnapped and brutally murdered his […]

122 min Genre:    Drama, Thriller Director: Anton Corbijn Cast:      Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright…more Writers:  Andrew Bovell , John le Carré The Late, Great Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a German spy in modern day Hamburg on the trail of a young illegal Chechen immigrant whom he believes is involved in the global […]

103 min Genre:    Drama, Thriller Director: David Michôd Cast:      Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy…and more Writers:  Joel Edgerton & David Michôd Set in the harsh Australian Outback 10 years after an unspecified future economic apocalypse, Guy Pearce stars a gritty loner on a mission to recover his car stolen by criminals on the run, on the […]

89 min Genre:    Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller Director: Luc Besson Cast:      Scarlett Johansson, Min-sik Choi, Morgan Freeman…and more Writers:  Luc Besson Scarlett Johansson stars as a young American in Taiwan caught up in an international drug-deal gone wrong the results of which see her unlock the full capacity of the human brain with almost supernatural consequences, bad […]

109min Genre:    Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: David Ayer Cast:      Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick…and more Writers:  David Ayer End of Watch follows officers Taylor & Zavala of the LAPD as they navigate and protect the streets of South Central Los Angeles from increasingly bold and violent gangs and organised crime. Writer-Director David Ayer (Training […]

91min Genre:    Thriller, Drama, Sci-fi Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast:      Sandra Bullock, George Clooney …and more Writers:  Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón This is an extraordinary technical achievement in filmmaking and as groundbreaking as Avatar but with an ultimately more original storyline, Gravity is a nerve-wracking more sci-fact than sci-fi thriller. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the […]

155min Genre:     Drama, Thriller, Crime Director:  Jacques Audiard Cast:       Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif …and more Writers:   Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri… more A Prophet is a gritty and uncompromising drama set in modern day France and tells the story of Malik a young French-Algerian man navigating his way through a tough […]