Thriller
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Odds Against Tomorrow
director: Robert Wise actor: Robert Ryan / Harry Belafonte
other title: Strategia di una rapina / Wenig Chancen für morgen
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
This Gun for Hire (1942) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
This Gun for Hire
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Veronica Lake / Robert Preston
other title: Il fuorilegge / Die Narbenhand
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
The Red Circle (1970) NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Le cercle rouge
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Alain Delon / Bourvil
other title: Le cercle rouge / I senza nome
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Faster (2010) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Faster
director: George Tillman Jr. actor: Dwayne Johnson / Billy Bob Thornton
other title: Vingança Rápida / Sed de venganza
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Law Abiding Citizen
director: F. Gary Gray actor: Jamie Foxx / Gerard Butler
other title: Giustizia privata / Nådeløs hævn
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Doctor Mordrid (1992) IMDb ReviewDB TMDB
Doctor Mordrid
director: Albert Band / Charles Band actor: Jeffrey Combs / Yvette Nipar
other title: 超时空魔法师 / Invasori dalla IV dimensione
Bound by hate and a mystical amulet that holds the powers of life and death, two immortal wizards meet for the last time in an ancient struggle of good versus evil.
Defence of the Realm (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Her Vengeance (1988) NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
血玫瑰
director: Lam Nai-Choi actor: Pauline Wong / Lam Ching-Ying
Fong Kit Ying is an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who inadvertently angers a gang of drunken patrons. They follow her home after her shift and mount a viscous gang assault. After her traumatic ordeal, she vows to hunt them down one by one.
The Deal (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Deal
director: Harvey Kahn actor: Christian Slater / Selma Blair
other title: The Deal - Il compromesso / Contrato de Risco
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
Cloud (2024) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cloud クラウド
director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Masaki Suda / Daiken Okudaira
other title: Cloud クラウド
Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
Inception (2010) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Inception
8.6 (43 ratings) director: Christopher Nolan actor: Leonardo DiCaprio / Joseph Gordon-Levitt
other title: A Origem / Origen
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Hopscotch (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hopscotch
director: Ronald Neame actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson
other title: Due sotto il divano / Den vilde flugt
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Oct. 3, 2025 watched
A light dramedy of an aging irrrascible man having some fun at the expense of those passing him over.

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Black Sunday (1977) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Black Sunday
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Robert Shaw / Bruce Dern
other title: Sort søndag / Schwarzer Sonntag
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
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The Hit
director: Stephen Frears actor: John Hurt / Terence Stamp
other title: Vendetta / O Traidor
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Sept. 6, 2025 watched
Great building of tension, especially as the characters are never quite what you expect.

And beautifully shot.
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The Limey (1999) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Limey
director: Steven Soderbergh actor: Terence Stamp / Lesley Ann Warren
other title: L'inglese / O Falcão Inglês
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.