Suspenseful + Dramatic Movies
War Horse (2011) RT 76% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Apr 2012
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • War
DIRECTION: Steven Spielberg
CAST: Tom Hiddleston • Benedict Cumberbatch • Toby Kebbell • Emily Watson
Coma (1978)
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Crichton
CAST: Geneviève Bujold • Michael Douglas • Elizabeth Ashley • Richard Widmark
Red Riding Hood (2011) RT 10% / Audience 39%
DVD release: Jun 2011
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to ... (more)
GENRES: Thriller
DIRECTION: Catherine Hardwicke
CAST: Amanda Seyfried • Gary Oldman • Lukas Haas • Virginia Madsen
Backdraft (1991) RT 71% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Nov 1998
They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Ron Howard
CAST: Kurt Russell • Robert De Niro • Donald Sutherland • William Baldwin
The Hateful Eight (2015) RT 75% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Mar 2016
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Mystery • Western
DIRECTION: Quentin Tarantino
CAST: Samuel L. Jackson • Bruce Dern • Michael Madsen • Kurt Russell
Cape Fear (1991) RT 76% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Sep 2001
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Martin Scorsese
CAST: Robert De Niro • Nick Nolte • Jessica Lange • Juliette Lewis
The Godfather (1972) RT 99% / Audience 98%
DVD release: Oct 2001
The story spans the years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama
DIRECTION: Francis Ford Coppola
CAST: Marlon Brando • Al Pacino • James Caan • Richard S. Castellano
Mud (2013) RT 98% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Aug 2013
A drama centered on two teenage boys who encounter a fugitive and pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Jeff Nichols
CAST: Matthew McConaughey • Tye Sheridan • Jacob Lofland • Sam Shepard
88 Minutes (2007) RT 5% / Audience 44%
DVD release: Sep 2008
"88 Minutes" focuses on a college professor (Pacino) who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI and receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Jon Avnet
CAST: Al Pacino • Alicia Witt • Leelee Sobieski • Amy Brenneman
Alien 3 (1992)
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Horror • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: David Fincher
CAST: Sigourney Weaver • Charles S. Dutton • Charles Dance • Pete Postlethwaite
I Am Legend (2007) RT 70% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Mar 2008
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Horror • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Francis Lawrence
CAST: Will Smith • Alice Braga • Charlie Tahan • Willow Smith
The Book Thief (2013) RT 46% / Audience 73%
DVD release: Mar 2014
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Brian Percival
CAST: Roger Allam • Sophie Nélisse • Geoffrey Rush • Emily Watson
Mr. Holmes (2015) RT 88% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Nov 2015
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery
DIRECTION: Bill Condon
CAST: Ian McKellen • Laura Linney • Milo Parker • Zak Shukor
The Hunt for Red October (1990) RT 86% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Dec 1998
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Thriller
DIRECTION: John McTiernan
CAST: Sean Connery • Alec Baldwin • Scott Glenn • Sam Neill
The Grey (2011)
In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Joe Carnahan
CAST: Liam Neeson • Dallas Roberts • Frank Grillo • Dermot Mulroney
Jarhead (2005) RT 61% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Mar 2006
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swafford and his unit are sent to the Persian ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • War
DIRECTION: Sam Mendes
CAST: Jamie Foxx • Jake Gyllenhaal • Scott MacDonald • Lucas Black
The Mist (2007) RT 73% / Audience 65%
DVD release: Mar 2008
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. ... (more)
GENRES: Horror • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Frank Darabont
CAST: Thomas Jane • Marcia Gay Harden • Laurie Holden • Toby Jones
The Ghost Writer (2010) RT 83% / Audience 70%
DVD release: Aug 2010
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Roman Polanski
CAST: Ewan McGregor • Pierce Brosnan • Jon Bernthal • Kim Cattrall
Ip Man (2008) RT 84% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Mar 2009
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • History
DIRECTION: Wilson Yip
CAST: Donnie Yen • Simon Yam • Xing Yu • Wong Yau-Nam
Casino Royale (2006) RT 95% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Mar 2007
James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back ... (more)