Best Drama / Thriller movies
The best independent drama / thriller movies.
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- DirectorMichael SpierigPeter SpierigStarsEthan HawkeSarah SnookNoah TaylorAs his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor MackayA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsJesse EisenbergMia WasikowskaWallace ShawnThe unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsJake GyllenhaalMélanie LaurentSarah GadonA man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
- DirectorHenry BarrialStarsRudolf MartinHeather AnkenyKeith DiamondA man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining consciousness, the man realizes he has amnesia, and has no idea who he is. His only clue, a piece of paper in his pocket with the name "Manny Elder" on it, sends him on a journey to Los Angeles to discover his past. But things and people are not what they seem and clues lead to something bigger and more unusual than the man could have ever imagined.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsChristoph WaltzLucas HedgesMélanie ThierryA hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
- DirectorJosh FeldmanStarsZach EulbergLauren TaylorTaylor LambertCharles Dickens meets Arthur C. Clarke--A lowly factory worker is delivered from a world of misery and discovers his destiny via an ancient object on the other side of the stars.
- DirectorNathan ChristoffelStarsRob AlecAndrew BakerSimon BarbaroIn a world of useless products, police brutality, pre-paid dreams and a list of Violations so long if you laugh too loudly you will be fined. Misner Corporation has invented a new source of energy which has given them a global monopoly on all facets of human life, creating a totalitarian society ruled by one man, Misner. Anyone not willing to work for Misner's regime, lives underground in a dark world of insane 'system dropouts'. Only coming above ground for the 1 hour of darkness which takes place each day when a giant ball of rubbish floats between the sun and the earth. Finnegan Wright a lower level worker at Misner Corp. is taken on an enthralling journey when forced to live underground by one of the 'System dropouts' who convinces Finnegan that he can change the fate of the world by Killing Misner. A satire which comments on the way humans are so easily fooled into buying products they don't need, having ridiculous jobs and worshiping leaders that have no respect for the planet and everything in it. In this world it is better to live underground with the freaks!
- DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
- DirectorDuncan JonesStarsSam RockwellKevin SpaceyDominique McElligottAstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
- DirectorDarren Paul FisherStarsDaniel FraserEleanor WyldOwen PughIn an alternate reality, children learn how lucky they will be (their "frequency"), knowledge which shapes their destiny. The unluckiest boy must parse the mysteries of free will in order to pursue his forbidden love of the luckiest girl.
- DirectorSam WashingtonStarsDaniel FraserStephanie BlackerHoward WardLAB RATS is a sci-fi romantic comedy featuring Zac and Cindy, two university students who meet by chance while volunteering to be subjects in a bizarre psychology experiment. They were just trying to earn a little extra cash to pay their tuition, but end up as pawns in bitter battle between two recently divorced professors, Dr John Marlow and Dr. Rita Riles, brilliant researchers who are each secretly using Zac and Cindy to prove competing theories about the human condition. In the end, Zac and Cindy have a few things to teach their professors about life, love, and relationships.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsJared LetoSarah PolleyDiane KrugerA boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.