2014 Movies : Thriller

With Ben Affleck • Reese Witherspoon • Tyler Perry • Missi Pyle • David Fincher • Rosamund Pike • Kim Dickens • Boyd Holbrook • Emily Ratajkowski • Neil Patrick Harris • Bruna Papandrea • Patrick Fugit • Leslie Dixon • Gillian Flynn • Casey Wilson

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

With James Wan • Annabelle Wallis • Alfre Woodard • Peter Safran • Gary Dauberman • John Leonetti • Ward Horton

Centers on the doll seen in the 1970s Rhode Island-set Conjuring, which starred Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson and was directed by James Wan.

With Stephen King • Stephen Lang • Kristen Connolly • Joan Allen • Anthony LaPaglia • Peter Askin

A woman discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years when she stumbles upon a box in the garage.

With Nicolas Cage • J. David Williams • Chad Michael Murray • Nicky Whelan • Vic Armstrong • John Patus • Paul Lalonde • Cassi Thomson

Follows Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage) who is piloting a commercial airliner just hours after the Rapture when millions of people around the globe simply vanish. Thirty thousand feet over the Atlantic, Rayford is faced with a damaged plane, terrified passengers, and a desperate desire to get back to his family. On the ground, his daughter, Chloe Steele (Cassi Thomson) is among those left behind, forced to navigate a world of madness as she searches for her lost mother and brother.

With Billie Woodruff • William Levy • Sharon Leal • Tasha Smith • Suzanne de Passe • Boris Kodjoe • Mike Paseornek • John Sacchi • Christina Welsh • Charisee Nesbit • Lucy Thurber • Emayatzy Corinealdi • Tyson Beckford

The story centers on Zoe, a woman in a perfectly quaint marriage. The couple are busy raising three children while devoted to their careers. However, it’s not enough to fulfill all of her desires as she soon finds herself satisfying her addiction to sex with other men, which puts her on a dangerous path that she may not survive.

With Ryan Murphy • Jason Blum • Addison Timlin • Veronica Cartwright • Joshua Leonard • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa • Travis Tope • Gary Cole • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The story centers on a rural Texarkana town that was stalked by a serial killer in 1946. The maniac was never caught and in 2013, he comes back. Addison Timlin plays a young high schooler being raised by her grandmother who’s targeted by the mysterious killer. Travis Tope will play a classmate who befriends Timlin’s character and decides to make a documentary about the search for the killer. Veronica Cartwright will play Timlin’s grandmother who is raising her after her parents die in a car accident. Gary Cole is a deputy who is doggedly pursuing the killer, and Joshua Leonard will play the deputy assigned to protect Timlin and her grandmother.

With Joel Edgerton • Tom Wilkinson • Jai Courtney • Myles Nestel • Lisa Wilson • Melissa George • Matthew Saville • Rosemary Blight

Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after the long waited bust of a major gang, a decorated police officer (Joel Edgerton) runs a young cyclist off the road. As he gives CPR to the child, fellow officers arrive to take his statement. In a split second decision he tells them a lie about the accident which will change all their lives in this edge of your seat thriller.

With Keanu Reeves • Eva Longoria • Ian McShane • Willem Dafoe • Chad Stahelski • Basil Iwanyk • Jason Isaacs • Bridget Moynahan • Adrianne Palicki • Lance Reddick • Derek Kolstad • Bridget Regan

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre".

With Mel Gibson • Kate Beckinsale • David Thewlis • Jim Sturgess • Ben Kingsley • Michael Caine • Brendan Gleeson • Fiona Shaw • Brad Anderson • Bruce Davey • Joe Gangemi • Mark Amin • Cami Winikoff • David W. Higgins • Christopher Fulford

Jim Sturgess will star as a Harvard Medical School grad who takes a job a mental institution which the inmates have taken over and are posing as doctors. He becomes obsessed with the title character (Kate Beckinsale), one of the patients.

With Angela Bassett • Eva Green • Shailene Woodley • Shiloh Fernandez • Thomas Jane • Christopher Meloni • Gregg Araki • Andrea Sperling • Emmanuel Finkiel • Julie Peyr • Gabourey Sidibe • Sheryl Lee

Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve (Eva Green), a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears - just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, (Christopher Meloni) for the loss. In fact, it's almost a relief. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

With Brian Steele • Mark Ordesky • Robin Cowie • Gregg Hale • Roger Edwards • Eduardo Sanchez • Jamie Nash • Jane Fleming • Andy Jenkins • Dora Madison Burge • Samuel Davis • Chris Osborn • Denise Williamson • Reed Frerichs

For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway— a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed—something not exactly human, but not completely animal— an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Kevin Rahm • Tony Gilroy • Rene Russo • Jennifer Fox • Bill Paxton • David Lancaster • Dan Gilroy • Ann Cusack • Michel Litvak

Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

With James Wan • Leigh Whannell • Cary Elwes • Danny Glover • Oren Koules • Shawnee Smith • Dina Meyer • Tobin Bell • Monica Potter • Ken Leung • Mark Burg • Gregg Hoffman

A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes). Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand. Neither man knows why he has been abducted; but instructions left on a microcassette, order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours. If he fails to do so, then both men will die, and Dr. Gordon's wife, Alison (Monica Potter), and his daughter will be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation by a police detective named Tapp (Danny Glover), Dr. Gordon realizes he and Adam are the next victims of a psychopathic genius known only as "Jigsaw." With only a few hours left to spare, they must unravel the elaborate puzzle of their fate in the midst of mounting terror. The killer has provided them with only a few clues and two handsaws—too weak to break their steel shackles, but strong enough to cut through flesh and bone...

With Nicole Kidman • Colin Firth • Ridley Scott • Mark Strong • Rowan Joffe • Jenny Borgars • Liza Marshall

Before I Go To Sleep is the story of a woman (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up every day with no memory as the result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, terrifying new truths begin to emerge that make her question everything she thinks she knows about her life - as well as everyone in it, including her doctor (Mark Strong) and even her husband (Colin Firth).

With Heather Graham • Daniel Radcliffe • Juno Temple • Max Minghella • Keith Bunin • Alexandre Aja • Joey McFarland • David Morse • Cathy Schulman • Peter Guber • Kelli Garner • Joe Gatta • Joe Hill • Adam Stone • Riza Aziz

The film follows Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter" films), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple). Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend's tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer.

With Alan McKenna • Julian Barratt • Rodney Ascher • Andy Nyman • Robert Boocheck • Martina Garcia • Ian Virgo

The follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. The film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death.