#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.

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.
Superman (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Superman
6.5 (6 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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Star Wars
8.3 (23 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.
Sunshine (2007) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
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.
Moon (2009) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Moon
7.6 (24 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.
Armageddon (1998) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Armageddon
5.7 (13 ratings) director: Michael Bay actor: Bruce Willis / Billy Bob Thornton
other title: Armageddon - Giudizio finale / Armageddon - Das jüngste Gericht
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Capricorn One (1977) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Capricorn One
director: Peter Hyams actor: Elliott Gould / James Brolin
other title: Mission: Capricorn One / Capricórnio Um
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Dune (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Dune
5.8 (5 ratings) director: David Lynch actor: Kyle MacLachlan / Francesca Annis
other title: Dune - Ørkenplaneten / Dune - Duna
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
The Farthest (2018) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Farthest
director: Emer Reynolds actor: Carl Sagan / John Casani
other title: The Farthest - Il viaggio più lungo / Voyagers Reise in die Unendlichkeit
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
Starship Troopers (1997) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB Test WikiData
Starship Troopers
8.0 (14 ratings) director: Paul Verhoeven actor: Casper Van Dien / Dina Meyer
other title: Starship Troopers - Fanteria dello spazio / Soldados do Universo
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
Serenity (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Serenity
5.9 (8 ratings) director: Joss Whedon actor: Nathan Fillion / Summer Glau
other title: Serenity - Flucht in neue Welten / Serenity - L'ultime rébellion
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.
The Martian (2015) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Martian
8.2 (38 ratings) director: Ridley Scott actor: Matt Damon / Jessica Chastain
other title: Sopravvissuto - The Martian / Perdido em Marte
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The Right Stuff (1983) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Right Stuff
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Sam Shepard / Scott Glenn
other title: Uomini veri / Mænd af rette støbning
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
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