#FridayThrillerClub

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Movies from the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon

Every Friday (7.30pm US Eastern time), watch a thrilling movie and join in by posting on Mastodon with the #FridayThrillerClub hashtag.

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This collection is a work in progress, working backwards. Currently goes back to start of 2025.

Hoosiers (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Hoosiers
director: David Anspaugh actor: Gene Hackman / Barbara Hershey
other title: Colpo vincente / Raiva de Vencer
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
klu9: Watched 18 July 2025
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Born on the Fourth of July
director: Oliver Stone actor: Tom Cruise / Raymond J. Barry
other title: Nato il quattro luglio / Født den 4. juli
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
klu9: Watched 4 July 2025
Enemy of the State (1998) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Enemy of the State
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Tony Scott actor: Will Smith / Gene Hackman
other title: Nemico pubblico / Perigo Público
The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday shopping. Unbeknownst to Dean, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the trail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious NSA official named Reynolds. Using satellite surveillance, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves while also framing him for murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, he attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
klu9: Watched 27 June 2025
Mississippi Burning (1988) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mississippi Burning
director: Alan Parker actor: Gene Hackman / Willem Dafoe
other title: Mississippi Burning - Le radici dell'odio / Mississippi i flammer
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
klu9: Watched 20 June 2025
Under Fire (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Under Fire
director: Roger Spottiswoode actor: Nick Nolte / Gene Hackman
other title: Sotto tiro / I skudlinien
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
klu9: Watched 13 June 2025
Prime Cut (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Prime Cut
director: Michael Ritchie actor: Lee Marvin / Gene Hackman
other title: Arma da taglio / Hakkedrenge
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
klu9: Watched 6 June 2025
Runaway Jury (2003) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Runaway Jury
director: Gary Fleder actor: 约翰·库萨克 / 吉恩·哈克曼
other title: 审判在线 / 幕后陪审团
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
klu9: Watched 30 May 2025
Absolute Power (1997) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Absolute Power
director: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 actor: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 / 吉恩·哈克曼
other title: 一触一发 / 绝对权力
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
klu9: Watched 23 May 2025
Bat★21 (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Bat★21
director: Peter Markle actor: Gene Hackman / Danny Glover
other title: Fanget bag fjendens linier / O Fugitivo da Selva
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
klu9: Watched 16 May 2025
Superman (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Superman
6.8 (5 ratings) director: Richard Donner actor: Christopher Reeve / Margot Kidder
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
klu9: Watched 9 May 2025
The French Connection (1971) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB
The French Connection
director: William Friedkin actor: Gene Hackman / Roy Scheider
other title: Il braccio violento della legge / Den franske forbindelse
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
klu9: Watched 2 May 2025
Narrow Margin (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Narrow Margin
director: Peter Hyams actor: Gene Hackman / Anne Archer
other title: Rischio totale / På et hængende hår
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
klu9: Watched 25 April 2025
No Way Out (1987) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
No Way Out
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Kevin Costner / Gene Hackman
other title: Senza via di scampo / Ingen vej tilbage
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
klu9: Watched 18 April 2025
Night Moves (1975) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Night Moves
director: Arthur Penn actor: Gene Hackman / Jennifer Warren
other title: 夜间行动 / 夜探毒龙潭
Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), a worn-out private detective, is hired to look for a 16-year-old girl who has run away from the luxury home of her mother, formerly a small-time actress in Los Angeles. The more the weary cynic tries to get under the surface of the seemingly simple case, the harder it is for him to find his bearings among the lies and deceptions that surround him. Eight years after the key New Hollywood film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunited to collaborate on what was to become one of the most undervalued films of the decade. Like Polanski in Chinatown or Altman in The Long Goodbye, in his revisionist film noir, Penn also allows the 1940s classic genre to pervade the complex reality of the 1970s. The feelings of bitterness and emptiness in the modern Chandleresque protagonist originate not only in the “public” sphere of the strange, increasingly convoluted case, but in his private life as well (boyhood trauma, a broken marriage). As Moseby remarks of a sporting event, “nobody’s winning … one side is just losing slower than the other.”
klu9: Watched 11 April 2025
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB Melon Log IMDb WikiData
Bonnie and Clyde
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Arthur Penn actor: Warren Beatty / Faye Dunaway
other title: Gangster Story / Bonnie og Clyde
In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
klu9: Watched 4 April 2025
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Star Wars
8.3 (19 ratings) director: George Lucas actor: Mark Hamill / Harrison Ford
other title: Star Wars / Guerra nas Estrelas
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
klu9: Watched 28 March 2025
Sunshine (2007) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Sunshine
7.5 (6 ratings) director: Danny Boyle actor: Cillian Murphy / Rose Byrne
other title: Missão Solar / Sunshine: Missão Solar
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
klu9: Watched 21 March 2025
Stargate (1994) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Stargate
6.8 (8 ratings) director: Roland Emmerich actor: James Spader / Kurt Russell
other title: Stargate : la porte des étoiles / Stargate: Puerta a las estrellas
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
klu9: Watched 14 March 2025
Moon (2009) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Moon
7.5 (23 ratings) director: Duncan Jones actor: Sam Rockwell / Kevin Spacey
other title: Moon - O Outro Lado da Lua
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
klu9: Watched 28 February 2025
Created date: Sept. 27, 2025