After she recovers from her dangerous encounter with a bloodthirsty vampire (in the first part, Twilight), Bella comes to Edward’s house to celebrate her birthday with his family. While she is unwrapping her gifts, she gets a paper-cut. Although Edward’s family doesn’t consume human blood, one of them finds it impossible to resist fresh human blood and attacks Bella.

Although he’s deeply in love with Bella, Edward decides to leave her, realizing the danger he and his family put her through. Bella is devastated and, trying to overcome her pain engages in all sort of dangerous actions, putting herself in great danger.

Release Date: November 20^th, 2009

Genre: Action, Thriller, Romance

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kirsten Stewart, Dakota Fanning

Director: Chris Weitz

Officer Aidan Bresly becomes consumed with the case, devoting all his time to the discovery of the killers, but at one point he realizes that, shockingly, the killers are sending a coded message. He interviews a weird Asian girl, who’s involved somehow in the killings and who seems to know more than she’s telling. However he cannot get too much out of her because she’s not cooperating.

As the killings continue and more and more clues appear, Breslin realizes that something terrible is about to happen and he has to find out what before is too late.

Release Date: March 13th, 2009

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Crifton Collins Jr.

Director: Jonas Akerlund

Jessie is a woman with a turbulent past. She however settled for a normal and quiet life with Roy, but, sometimes, misses the thrill and adventure of her old past. When they meet Annie and Carlos she suspects something rather fishy about them. Annie is at least 10 years older than Carlos and the latter seems to have a more than friendly interest on Jessie.

When Roy is left behind accidentally at one train stop, Jessie realizes that Annie and Carlos are in fact drug smugglers and when another character, officer Grinko, comes into scene, she fears for the worst.

Release Date: July the 18^th, 2008

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega

Director: Brad Anderson

All the people in the store are terrified believing that they are being held hostages by a gang of criminals or even worse, terrorist but they eventually find out that in fact the armed robbers are a group of scientists tracking down a very powerful alien, capable of destroying all creatures on Earth.

The scientists want to find and destroy the alien at any costs. One of the scientists uses a scanner to find the alien which is using a human as a host but things get even more complicated when a police officer tries to save the day but instead manages to destroy any chance of finding the alien. Now the scientists have to kill everybody in that supermarket to kill the alien.

Release date: N/A

Cast: Carlos Bernard, Rockmond Dunbar

Director: Ben Rock

Their initial happiness and joy of being back to Narnia turns into sorrow when they find out that more than 1300 years have passed since they left Narnia, and all their loved ones from there are probably dead. The realm itself is now in ruin under the rule of Telmarins who conquered it and their ruthless King Miraz.

The four children meet with a young man who proves to be the rightful heir to the throne, forced into hiding by his murderous uncle – King Miraz. With the help of several fantastic creatures (a dwarf, a mouse, a badger) the four siblings embark on a journey to find Aslan and reestablish peace and prosperity to Narnia.

Release date: May 16th, 2008

Cast: Ben Barnes, William Moseley

Director: Andrew Adamson

His mission – to collect inside information from IRA and transmit it to the British – is a very dangerous one. He knows that he’s risking his life but he also realises the importance of his mission and how many lives he can save by continuing it and decides to go on.

But tragedy strikes, his true identity is revealed and he ends up being caught in a crossfire between Irish and British, hunted by both parts. He is caught but manages to pull off a nearly impossible escape and he is forced to decide between saving himself or his family.

Release date: 10 April 2009

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess

Director: Kari Skogland

When his friend Martine comes with a proposition, he just can’t say no. Martine, who works as a model, is dating a secret agent who told her about a bank that will be without alarms for a while, as the old alarms had to be replaced. Her plan is to plunder the safe deposit boxes, knowing that people won’t press charges.

This theory is based on the fact that people will, most likely, want to maintain secrecy regarding the belongings that they stored in those safe boxes. After the heist, the gang of robbers realize that some things are better left not stolen as they came across various incriminating photos and documents. This unleashes a whirlwind of pursuits that build the suspense and action of any heist movie.

Release date: March 7th, 2008

Cast: Jason Statham,

Director: Roger Donaldson

He never lets anything stand in the way of his jobs, neither buildings nor cars, roads or trains. He spares nothing and knows that the bills would be paid by the city. The problem is that the city has had enough and want either Hancock to stop his crime-fighting or move to another city.

His life is about to change when he rescues Ray Embrey from being hit by a train. Ray works as a public relations executive and feels in debt to Hancock who saved his life. He came up with a way to pay him back and decides to take up the difficult task of changing Hancock’s public image. His objective was to make the public love Hancock and cheer his successes. There is one person – Ray’s wife, Mary – who thinks Hancock can’t change and tries to keep Ray from getting hurt in the process.

Release date: July 2nd, 2008

Cast: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Director: Peter Berg

The latest Rambo movie finds John Rambo retreated to the North of Thailand. The plot of the movie is concentrated around the Burmese – Karen conflict, a 60 – year – running civil war that seems endless. John Rambo has set himself apart from any kind of conflicts and was living a quiet life in the mountains until a group of human rights missionaries ask for his help.

Sarah and Michael Bennett start explaining the situation. The problem was that the road to the refugee camps has been land mined by the Burmese military so they asked Rambo to guide them up the Salween in order to deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe.

Two weeks pass and Rambo finds out that the missionaries haven’t returned and the embassies have a hard time trying to locate them. It becomes obvious for Rambo that he’s the only one that can restore the order and safely bring them back.

Release Date: January 25, 2008

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish

Director: Sylvester Stallone

‘Taking Lives’ is a captivating thriller, that focuses on the darker aspects of the human character. Make no mistake, this is a movie about a serial killer.

Our bad character here, Martin Asher, takes the identities of the people he kills, to a point where he actually lives their lives, until he moves on to the next victim.

All these, until he meets Illeana, whom he determines to fall in love with him.

Illeana is an FBI profiler and was summoned in Montreal to study the very case of a serial killer, who steals the identity of his victims.

Her instinct quickly tells her that there is more to Martin than he wants her to find out.

Release Date: March 16, 2004

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Cast:

Angelina Jolie (Illeana)

Ethan Hawke (Costa)

Director: D.J. Caruso

The movie tells the story of two teenagers – Pedro and Juan – who meet by chance for a short period of time, in a truck that transports illegally immigrants from Mexico to the United States of America.

Pedro is a 17 year-old honest boy, who travels to New York, in order to find his father, Diego, who is supposed to own a restaurant there.

On the way there, he befriends Juan and tells him all his secrets, showing him a letter that his deceased mother gave him. He has to give the letter to his father, when he meets him.

When Pedro wakes up, he finds his luggage and his new friend Juan, missing. He feels lonely and lost in a huge city that he doesn’t know and in a  country whose language he doesn’t speak fluently. Here, he meets Magda, a prostitute who speaks his language and who can help him to find his father.

Release Date: May 14, 2008

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Cast:

Jorge Adrian Espindola (Pedro)

Jesus Ochoa (Diego)

Armando Hernandez (Juan)

Paola Mendoza (Magda)

Director: Cristopher Zalla

It shows the adventures of the mutant with amazing regenerative powers, before he first met Professor Charles Xavier. Wolverine goes on the search of his own past and of the origins of his amazing powers, and tells us all about the complex relationship he had with Victor Creed and the omnipresent program Weapon X.

In his journey to the past he meets a lot of new mutants, but some of the legends of the X-Men universe will also make an appearance.

Release Date: 1 May 2009

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney, Lynn Collins

Director: Gavin Hood

It all takes place during one week, in the Los Angeles of 1983.

Graham is a young man with a very strong sense of morality, but incredibly passive; so he does nothing even when he suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him.Laura, his mother, is a sedative addict, has a relationship with a teenager and she can’t get passed William divorcing her.

After the divorce, William got remarried with Cheryl Laine, a young TV news broadcaster, only to leave her a couple of months later.

Tim Price is Graham’s friend; his father takes him on a country tour, because he suspects him of being gay and wants to bond with him as father and son. Contrary to his expectations, things go really bad.

Bryan Metro is a drug and alcohol addicted rock star, with violent sexual behavior and Peter is a heroin addicted psychopath who kidnaps a little boy (along with girlfriend Mary) in order to receive ransom money from his parents.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Rhys Ifans, Chris Isaak, Austin Nichols, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cameron Goodman

Director: Gregor Jordan

The movie is very intense, and shows us the sacrifices the “narcs”, the officers, have to make in order to successfully infiltrate in the front lines of the drug world.

The main character is Nick Tellis, a suspended “narc”, who has to find the truth behind the murder of a police officer.

As they solve the case, step by step, they find out things, not even they were prepared for.

Release Date: 2002

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast:

Jason Patric (Nick Tellis)

Ray Liotta (Henry Oak)

Director: Joe Carnahan

Donkey Punch (2009)

“Donkey Punch” was described as the sexiest thriller of the year in the UK.

It tells the story of a party given on a yacht, at which participate four boys and three very sexy girls.All sounds absolutely normal so far; but things get interesting when alcohol, drugs and erotic games show up…..and somebody pushes the limit.

All their teenage fun transforms into a very exciting thriller, containing scenes of nudity and violence, drug and alcohol abuse.

Release Date: 23 January 2009

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone

Director: Oliver Blackburn

They use all the methods they can thinks of and spare no means in order to obtain the information they want – the more dirt it contains, the better for them.Because of one of the paparazzi’s stalking, Bo and his family are involved in a car accident and they immediately take pictures of it, but don’t call for an ambulance.

Bo’s son goes in a coma and the man is at a crossroads in his life; he comes up with a very complicated revenge plan and starts hunting down the four paparazzi who have made his life a living hell.

Release Date: 3 September 2004

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Hollander, Kevin Gage, Blake Michael Bryan, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Baker, Jordan Baker, Joe Basile, Lauren Birkell

Director: Paul Abascal

Given a choice, they decide to live in New York, in a luxurious house which happens to have a “panic room:, a hidden place that can totally isolate you from the rest of the building.

The room becomes a very good hiding place when the house is broken into by three thieves. Meg and Sarah manage to lock themselves inside the room before the thieves catch them, but Sarah is diabetic and her medicine is outside.

Moreover, the phone in the panic room has not been connected yet and the irony of it all is that what the thieves are looking for can be found in that room.

Release Date:  29 March 2002

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan

Director: David Fincher

They rent a room in an old lady’s house that they use as an operations center, and they plan to disguise in the music band members; thus the demolitions expert, the ex-general and the other thieves will have to pretend to be musicians, despite their appearance.

Their plan seems to have no flaws, but they have not taken in consideration an important element: little old Mrs. Munson, the landlady……

Release Date: 26 March 2004

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Tom Hanks (Profesor G.H. Dorr), Irma P. Hall (Marva Munson), Marlon Wayans (Gawain McSam), J.K. Simmons (Garth Pancake), Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst (Lump), Diane Delano , George Wallace (Alguacil Wyner), John McConnell,  Jason Weaver (Weemack).

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

He soon discovers that she is a character of a fairy tale, who is trying to make the journey back to her world in safety.In time, Cleveland and the persons who live in his building realize that they are part of the same story. He falls in love with the beautiful stranger and decides to protect her at any cost from any danger.

Along with his friends, he is determined to fight off any dark creature that might be coming to get his sweetheart and stop her from going home.

Release Date: 21 July 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Mary Beth Hurt, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, M. Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

After she wakes up from the coma, she wants revenge. She wants to kill everybody involved in the massacre at her wedding. She especially wants to kill, Bill, a professional killer.

Beatrix manages to kill her enemy Elle Driver and Bill’s brother, Bud. Now, all her revenge is focused on Bill. She wants to kill him at any cost. But Bill holds a secret that will change everything…

Release Date: April 16, 2004

Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama

Cast:

Uma Thurman (Beatrix Kiddo, The Bride)

David Carradine (Bill)

Lucy Liu

Director: Quentin Tarantino