Thriller
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Die Hard
Date: 1988 Director: James McTiernan Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Reginald Veljohnson A Mack truck-of-a-movie that lets Bruce Willis mime Harrison…
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Aliens
Date: 1986 Director: James Cameron Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Lance Henrikson, Jenette Goldstein Fresh off the literally explosive success of…
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To Live and Die in L.A.
Date: 1985 Director: William Friedkin Starring: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow William Friedkin (“The French Connection”) and William L. Petersen…
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After Hours
Date: 1985 Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanne Arquette Manic Martin Scorsese is so enamored of his Soho wrong-place, wrong-time…
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Date: 1974 Director: John Sergent Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Marty Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman Before Quentin Tarantino color-coded his…
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The Parallax View
Date: 1974 Director: Alan Pakula Starring: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss Alan Pakula’s thriller graduates from “The Manchurian Candidate” school.…
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The Ipcress File
Date: 1965 Director: Sidney J. Furie Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Dolemanm, Sue Lloyd If Sean Connery’s James Bond was…
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Fail Safe
Date: 1964 Director: Sidney Lumet Starring: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman A landmark and (then) terrifying Cold War…
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North by Northwest
Date: 1959 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint It’s not so much Cary Grant’s gradually-alarmed suaveness.…
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