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Kinostart: 1955

Studio: Pathé Consortium Cinéma

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 122

Zusammenfassung: After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L' Âge d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress.

Kinostart: 1973

Studio: Universal TV

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 90

Zusammenfassung: While traveling through the desert for an appointment with a client, the businessman David Mann from California passes a slow and old tanker truck. The psychotic truck driver feels offended and chases David along the empty highway trying to kill him.

Kinostart: 1974

Studio: Universal Pictures

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 122

Zusammenfassung: Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's employer, to use his influence to stop Stuart from seeing Denise. Rogue policeman Lew Slade is suspended from the L.A.P.D. for having punched an obtuse officer from another jurisdiction. Embittered, Slade contemplates quitting the police force. Jody, a perverted grocery store manager, lusts after Rosa Amici, sister of Sal, the assistant to Miles Quade, an aspiring daredevil motor cyclist. The lives of all these people are devastated when a major earthquake rips through Los Angeles and reduces the city to ruins.

Kinostart: 2012

Studio: Summit Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Picture

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 103

Zusammenfassung: Nick Cassidy war einst ein erfolgreicher Cop mit einem nahezu perfekten Leben. Doch plötzlich findet er sich im Gefängnis wieder, für ein Verbrechen, das er nicht begangen hat. Wie weit kann ein Mann gehen, um seine eigene Unschuld zu beweisen? Völlig verzweifelt nutzt er die erstbeste Gelegenheit, die sich ihm bietet, zur Flucht und steigt mit einem ausgeklügelten Plan im Kopf auf den Fenstersims eines Hochhauses.

Kinostart: 1996

Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 118

Zusammenfassung: Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent surgeon Dr Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), but Luthan soon finds himself under in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

Kinostart: 2007

Studio: New Line Cinema

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 113

Zusammenfassung: Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts.

Kinostart: 1960

Studio: Dorchester

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 127

Zusammenfassung: Eleven friends who know each other from World War II service plan to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night. They develop a master plan but after the whole thing is over, something goes wrong...

Kinostart: 2009

Studio: Universal Pictures

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 10

Zusammenfassung: Ray works for MI6, Claire for the CIA. She burns him in Dubai. Jump ahead five years: he sees her in Grand Central and confronts her. Both now work in industrial security for corporate giants whose CEOs hate each other. Flashbacks fill us in: is it coincidence that he sees her in Grand Central? In about a week, one of the firms is going to announce a revolutionary product. Under the guise of helping that corporation's rival, can Ray and Claire work their own theft and find an independent buyer? To work together, using the corporate rivalry to their advantage, they would have to trust one another - difficult, if not impossible. Or, is one playing the other?

Kinostart: 2002

Studio: Miramax Films

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 113

Zusammenfassung: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Kinostart: 1993

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 101

Zusammenfassung: A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.