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Gangster Squad

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Starring: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi

It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Seargant John O'Mara, a former World War 2 soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but, eventually he realizes it's the cops

Personal Favorites

Taken ( 96 Hours )

My absolut favorite thriller movie is Taken with Liam Nesson

i really like the storyline in this movie: The seventeen years old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her

wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets is slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this Information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barley has time to call her father and give him informations. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promised to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go. The Kidnapper wishes him "good luck". So  Bryan Mills travels to paris so search his daughter and her friend.


And Liam Nesson was always one of my favorite actors. 

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is on the second place. Its an American psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese.

Storyline: It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S marshal Teddy Daniels(Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He is been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything- his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. 

Best Thrillers of all time

Psycho

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense when he released Psycho he changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller forever. 
Storyline: Marion Crane is unhappy in her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis. One afternoon, Marion is given 40,000$ in cash, to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life with her purloined nest egg. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to stein, and Marion decides to stop for the night at he Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next. "The Shower Scene".

Se7en

It is and American Thriller film which was produced 1995. Its with Star actors Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. 
Storyline: Its about two homicide detectives desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the worlds ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills. 

Unknown Identity

The Main Character in this movie is one of the best actors out of the genre Liam Neeson. The director is Jaume Collet-Sara.

Storyline: A man awakens from coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one; (not even his Wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is. 

The most famous thriller actors

Liam Nesson 

Liam John Nesson Born in June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK.
He rose to prominence with his acclaimed starring role in Steven Spielbergs 1993 Oscar winner Schindler's List.
Since then he was in a lot of top movies (mostly thriller) in our decade, a few of them a listed underneath.
Before he became famous he worked as a fork-lift operator at Guinness and a truck driver.

A few of his Movies : 

• Schindler's List
• Star wars Episode 1 
• Martin Luther
• Taken
• Five Minutes of Heaven
• The Grey
• The Dark Knight Rises 
• Taken 2
• Non-Stop 

Nicolas Cage 

Nicolas Cage, he was born 7 January 1964 in Long Beach, California. U.S He is an American director, actor and producer he has performed in leading roles in a variety of films ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films 
He has appeared in a film every year since 1980 (except 1985 and 1991)

Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955), His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s, most notably as David Addison in Moonlight 
had since then he has continued in television and film,
including comedic, dramatic and action roles.

One of his most famous crime thrillers was/is the Die Hard series:

Famous thriller Directors

Christopher Nolan

He is a British-American thriller director whose narrative structures often reflect the mental construction of the characters as in, The Dark Night, The prestige and Inception. He was born in London in 1970 and he began making films at the age of 7. Nolan directed his first film  "Following"

in 1998. After the success of the film Newmarket Films optioned the script for Nolan's next Film Memento 

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock ( 13. August 1899 in Leytonstone, England - 29. April 1980 in Los Angeles )

was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style.

A few of his Movies:

• Psycho
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Saboteur
• Vertigo
• Tom Curtain

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch ( Born January 20, 1946) is an American film director: He is Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique style. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements Contained within his films have been known to "disturb, offend or mystify" audiences.

Over his career, Lynch has received three academy award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best Screenplay.

Ruben Fleischer

Ruben Samuel Fleischer (born October 31, 1974) is an American film director. He is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful Zombieland, his first feature film. He followed it by making the films 30 Minutes or less and Gangster Squad.

Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker.

Best Known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for best Director.

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter and an aestheticization of violence, as well as features of neo-noir film and spaghetti Westerns.

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in New York City. He was raised in Little Italy, that provided later the inspiration for a lot of films. 
I He started in 1964 to produce short films in the next 4 years he earned numerous prices for those movies. His first feature film he directed in 1967 was Who's That Knocking at my Door. 
His latest work is The Wolf of Wall Street, which is probably the best movie of the year 2013 (my opinion).

In my opinion Marin Scorsese is probably the best director of our decade. He produced brilliant movies countless times.

Characteristics of a Thriller

Characteristics of a Thriller

The thriller genre is a category of fiction concerned with tales of excitement, suspense, and high melodrama. It often overlaps with other genres of literature and film, such as crime and adventure. Characteristics of the thriller genre often include a lone protagonist or small group of people opposed by a vastly superior enemy while pursuing an overriding quest or objective.

Crime Thriller

Crime thrillers a probably the most Common ones and in my opinion the best ones too. The characteristics of crime thrillers are:
In the most cases we have something like kidnapping, murder, heists, revenge and ransoms 

The trailer below of the movie Savages is a very good example for that  

Trailer 

Characters

We are expecting interesting persons with an unusual Character.
Often there are complicated twists between the different characters.
Some of the characters often have something misterious on them.
In the most Crime thrillers we have a "Bad Ass" Person 
(like Liam Nesson in Taken ) 

 

 

What is a thriller ?

So this is the first post on my blog and its about the question ,, What is a thriller '' to be honest at this point of time i don't know a lot about thrillers.
But i think a thriller is a genre of literature and movies, that uses suspense and excitement as its main elements. Films of that genre have a lot of surprise,adrenaline and a bit of horror in it. I think the main aim of thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats.

That's maybe wrong but i will learn a lot about thrillers in the next few months.