Director: Kevin Greutert
Writers: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Cast: Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Peter Outerbridge
Plot: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.
Genre: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Burns
Cast: Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt
Plot: The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan
Plot: Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Writers: Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton
Cast: Josh Stewart, Karley Scott Collins, Juan Fernandez, Jabari Thomas, Colvin Roberson, Michael Reilly Burke
Plot: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer’s country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Genre: Horror | Crime | Thriller
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Guy Hibbert
Cast: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Juliet Crawford, Niamh Cusack, Richard Dormer
Plot: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen’s brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Director: Michael Mann
Writers: Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann, Ann Biderman, Mark St. Germain
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Rory Cochrane, Stephen Lang, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Channing Tatum, Jason Clarke
Plot: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Genre: Crime / Drama
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michael Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan
Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his stalwart partner Watson (Law) engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Director: Dominic Sena
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Alex O’Loughlin, Shawn Doyle, Tom Skerritt
Plot: U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Pierfrancesco Favino, August Fredrik
Plot: When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin working for the Illuminati, have captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Director: Benny Boom
Writer: Blair Cobbs
Cast: Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Wood Harris, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Darius McCrary, Cisco Reyes, Mos Def
Plot: When an overnight delivery driver delivers a package containing bricks of cocaine to the wrong address, it sets into motion a battle of wills and wits between the dealer, the intended recipients, and the people who have the drugs and plan to sell them off.
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren
Plot: Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistress.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Cast: Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane
Plot: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Genre: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Romance
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Hiam Abbass, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paz de la Huerta, Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, Jean-François Stévenin, Tilda Swinton, Luis Tosar
Plot: The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Director: Gregor Jordan
Writers: Bret Easton Ellis, Nicholas Jarecki
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Brandon Routh, Austin Nichols, Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Lou Pucci, Amber Heard, Chris Isaak, Diego Klattenhoff
Plot: A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980’s Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs — and one another –with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Writers: Kent Harper, Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Cast: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart, Kent Harper, Michael Ironside
Plot: An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Nathan Atkins
Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Ed Westwick, Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Elizabeth Berkley
Plot: The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Release Date: April 28, 2009 (dvd)
Director: Eric Mandelbaum
Writers: Michael Graf, Michael Caughill, John Besmer, Eric Mandelbaum
Cast: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters
Plot: Barbara Hoffman (Birch) is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling (Carradine) has to do is prove it.
Genre: Crime | History
Release Date: April 4, 2009