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Primal Fear (film)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl, written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film follows a Chicago-based defense attorney who believes that his client, an altar boy, is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.
Magnum Force
1973 film directed by Ted Post
Enemy of the State
1998 film by Tony Scott
Blood Simple
1984 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Pelican Brief
1993 film directed by Alan J. Pakula
The Nice Guys
2016 film directed by Shane Black
The Game
1997 film directed by David Fincher
A History of Violence
2005 film by David Cronenberg
Lucky Number Slevin
2006 film by Paul McGuigan
Gone Baby Gone
2007 film by Ben Affleck
The Hustler
1961 film by Robert Rossen
Angel Heart
1987 film by Alan Parker
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Inherent Vice
2014 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Falling Down
1993 film directed by Joel Schumacher
The Dead Pool
1988 film by Buddy Van Horn
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack
Soylent Green
1973 film directed by Richard Fleischer
Sleeping with the Enemy
1991 film by Joseph Ruben
Lolita
1997 film by Adrian Lyne
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 film directed by Jonathan Demme
The Getaway
1972 film by Sam Peckinpah
Pi
1998 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer
Dark City
1998 film by Alex Proyas
Winter's Bone
2010 film by Debra Granik
Frantic
1988 film by Roman Polanski
The Black Dahlia
2006 film directed by Brian De Palma
The Enforcer
1976 film by James Fargo
Nightmare Alley
2021 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 film directed by George Clooney
Killing Them Softly
2012 film by Andrew Dominik
Bound
1996 film directed by The Wachowskis
Nocturnal Animals
2016 film directed by Tom Ford
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 film by Bob Rafelson
The Peacemaker
1997 film directed by Mimi Leder
The Sugarland Express
1974 film by Steven Spielberg
Badlands
1973 American crime film directed by Terrence Malick
Max Payne
2008 film by John Moore
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 crime-comedy film directed by Shane Black
American Gigolo
1980 film directed by Paul Schrader
Payback
1999 film by Brian Helgeland
Dressed to Kill
1980 US film directed by Brian De Palma
8mm
1999 film directed by Joel Schumacher
Klute
Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy Scheider and Rita Gam. Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl who assists a detective from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her. It is the first installment of what has informally come to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy", followed by The Parallax View (1974) and ''All the President's Men'' (1976), all films dealing with themes of pa
Death Wish
1974 film by Michael Winner
Conspiracy Theory
1997 film by Richard Donner
Capricorn One
1977 film by Peter Hyams
Shaft
1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks
Rounders
1998 film directed by John Dahl
No Way Out
1987 film directed by Roger Donaldson
Cop Land
1997 film by James Mangold
Out of Time
2003 film by Carl Franklin
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 US film directed by Sidney Lumet
The Long Goodbye
1973 film by Robert Altman
Cassandra's Dream
2007 film by Woody Allen
King of New York
1990 film by Abel Ferrara
Sea of Love
1989 film by Harold Becker
The Little Things
2021 film directed by John Lee Hancock