2012 Movies : Thriller

With Liam Neeson • Maggie Grace • Luke Grimes • Luc Besson • Famke Janssen • Robert Mark Kamen • Rade Sherbedgia • Olivier Megaton • Leland Orser

Set in Istanbul, Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the CIA agent with "a particular set of skills" for hunting down bad guys, but this time his daughter (Maggie Grace) has to help rescue him when associates of the villains he killed the first time around decide to get their revenge.

With Matthew McConaughey • Nicole Kidman • John Cusack • Zac Efron • Pedro Almodovar • Danny Dimbort • Avi Lerner • Cassian Elwes • Scott Glenn • Lee Daniels • Trevor Short • Hilary Shor

An erotic thriller set in 1969, Paperboy tells the story of a young man who returns to his small Florida hometown to help his reporter brother uncover the truth about a man on death row, who might have been wrongly convicted. In the process, he falls for the convict’s lover. Conflict, danger, deceit, seduction and betrayal ensue.

With Dermot Mulroney • John Billingsley • Christopher Bessette • Trieu Tran

In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man to use her. Alex, a human trafficking investigator plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire, Alexs wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls. She, and Alex both still are dealing with their grief of losing a child years earlier. As both of them struggle in their own way to overcome the pain of their past and realities of child exploitation where they now live and work, they find themselves being pulled together into the lives of local neighborhood girls, whose freedom and dignity are threatened.

With Ti West • Adam Wingard • Sophia Takal • Matt Bettinelli-Olpin • Glenn McQuaid • Calvin Reeder • Lane Hughes • Kate Lyn Sheil • David Bruckner

When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

With Scott Derrickson • Ethan Hawke • James Ransone • Jason Blum • Vincent D'Onofrio • C. Robert Cargill • Clare Foley • Fred Dalton Thompson • Michael Hall D'Addario • Juliet Rylance

Follows a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. After moving in, he uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.

With Djimon Hounsou • Diane Kruger • Benoit Magimel • Raphael Personnaz • Denis Menochet • Stephane Rybojad

European War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world's most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit to bring her home alive.

With Keith David • Roger Bart • Melanie Papalia • Shane Dawson • Michael Gallagher • Nikki Limo • Glasgow Phillips • Caitlin Gerard • Andrew James Allen • Toby Turner • Michael Traynor • Liza Weil • Jana Winternitz

After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named Smiley can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

With Richard Harmon • John Poliquin • Dylan Playfair • Leanne Lapp • The Vicious Brothers • Sean Rogerson • Stephanie Bennett • Howard Lai

Grave Encounters was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in Grave Encounters 2. Alex is as obsessed with the first film as the 20 million people who viewed its viral trailer on YouTube. While he and his friends research the events and visit the real psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film, they find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil, banking on the hope that their knowledge of the original film will help them survive the sequel.

With Jason Blum • Oren Peli • Katie Featherston • Zack Estrin • Kathryn Newton • Steven Schneider • Ariel Schulman • Matt Shively • Henry Joost • Akiva Goldsman • Brady Allen

The plot follows Katie and Hunter Rey (now age 6), who have just moved into a house together as mother and son, and their neighbors, Alex and Alex's mother, who begin to experience the same hauntings which followed Katie and Kristi's family.

With James Nguyen

The story of Rod, a young software salesman on the brink of launching a solar panel business in Silicon Valley. Things really seem to be going Rod’s way, especially when he reconnects with beautiful high school classmate Nathalie, a model who Victoria’s Secret chooses out of the blue to be their new cover girl. Their unbelievably perfect world is shattered by a sudden, unexplained bird attack. The vultures team up with the eagles, and begin dropping caustic liquids and exploding like bombs. Rod and Nathalie find themselves on a terror-filled ride up and down the coast, fighting off the vicious birds with their wits and...coat hangers.

With Radha Mitchell • Sean Bean • Don Carmody • Malcolm McDowell • Kit Harington • Carrie-Anne Moss • Deborah Kara Unger • Roger Avary • Michael J. Bassett • Adelaide Clemens

Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her father (Sean Bean) have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she's not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever.

With Jaume Balaguero • Luis Tosar • Alberto San Juan • Marta Clara

Toiling silently amongst the residents of an everyday Barcelona apartment building, doorman Cesar (Luis Tosar) harbors a dark secret: His sole desire in life is to make others unhappy. When he sets his sights on Clara (Marta Clara), one of his building’s cheeriest residents, his sick need blossoms into a full-fledged obsession. Embarking on a series of private and physical violations against Clara, Cesar becomes determined to ruin her life by any means necessary. Becoming the boogeyman hiding under the bed and bringing her nightmares to life, his fascination with torment soon crosses the line into lunacy – and his thirst for others’ sadness soon becomes manically unquenchable.

With Mem Ferda • Felix Vossen • Richard Coyle • Christopher Simon • Luis Prieto • Matthew Read • Bronson Webb • Agyness Deyn • Zlatko Buric

Follows street dealer Frank (Richard Coyle) through a hellish week as his life completely unravels. Naively believing that he's got a sure thing on his hands, Frank borrows money from his supplier, Milo (Zlatko Buriæ, reprising his role from the Danish trilogy), in order to get in on a big drug deal. When things don't go according to plan, Frank has to scramble to come up with the cash on his own to pay back Milo. As Milo's impatience mounts, so does Frank's desperation. The increasingly frantic Frank becomes willing to do whatever it takes to save himself; and when Milo shifts decisively from mildly inconvenienced friend to mortal enemy, Frank risks losing not only his life, but his humanity. Soon, Frank is beating up his sidekick (Bronson Webb), betraying his girlfriend (model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn, in her first major role), and even trying to con his own mother (Joanna Hole).

With Ken Foree • Nathaniel Nose • Randall Godwin

A group of ambitious filmmakers set out to create the world's first reality horror movie. Their plan was simple; they'd offer an active serial killer complete anonymity and a worldwide platform from which to display his work in exchange for genuine footage of his grisly crimes. What ensues is a hellish game of cat and mouse as a cryptic filmmaker, known only as The Maestro, comes out from hiding in search of his "perfect shot".