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Cold Comes the Night

Cold Comes the Night is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Tze Chun, who co-wrote the script with Oz Perkins and Nick Simon.


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Adam Hauck

Some of Adam's recent work can be seen in the DVD documentary features he has written and produced for Gary Ross's Seabiscuit, James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss, Joss Whedon's Serenity, and Joe Carnahan's crime thriller Smokin' Aces.

Adaora Lily Ulasi

As a novelist she may be the first Nigerian to write detective fiction in English, "adapting the genre of the crime thriller to a Igbo or Yoruba context".

Balram vs. Tharadas

Balram vs. Tharadas is a 2006 Malayalam crime thriller directed by I.V. Sasi, written by T. Damodaran and S. N. Swamy, and starring Mammootty and Katrina Kaif.

Benoît Ferreux

In 2007 he appeared in the Alain Corneau-directed crime thriller The Second Wind (French: Le Deuxième souffle), starring Daniel Auteuil and Monica Bellucci.

Budapest Noir

"The search for a Hungarian crime thriller is at an end: Vilmos Kondor’s novel is a Hungarian crime thriller and then some, one of the harder variety, in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but with Hungarian characters and set in the Hungarian capital in the period before World War II."

Christer Flodin

In 1992 he appeared in the miniseries Ett Äktenskap i kris and in 1994 he appeared in the crime thriller series Stockholm Marathon.

Laadam

The plot is a lift from the highly rated comedy crime/thriller English Movie "Lucky Number Slevin".

This movie is loosely based on 2006 crime thriller film "Lucky Number Slevin".

Let Us Live

Let Us Live is a 1939 crime thriller film diredted by John Brahm starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda and Ralph Bellamy.

Lindsay Armaou

In April 2012, Lindsay was cast in her first feature film role as Sister Georgina in the British indie crime thriller, Two Days in the Smoke alongside Matt Di Angelo, Stephen Marcus and Alan Ford.

Liza Marklund

The Postcard Killers, a crime thriller written in collaboration with American bestselling author James Patterson, is Marklund's twelfth book.

Lynda La Plante

In 2009 La Plante was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and most recently, in 2013 La Plante was awarded an Honorary Fellowship with the Forensic Science Society (FSSoc); the first non-scientist to be inducted into the professional body – receiving the award for the accuracy with which she portrays forensic science in her work.

Marina Giordana

Marina began her acting career with a role in the Italian comedy Che notte quella notte! (1976) and the little-known film Quella strana voglia d'amare (1977) but her best-known film is the gritty crime thriller La belva col mitra (a.k.a. The Beast With a Gun) from 1977, starring Helmut Berger and Marisa Mell.

Mera Yaar Mera Dushman

Mera Yaar Mera Dushman is a crime thriller, featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Zarina Wahab in lead roles, well supported by Rakesh Roshan, Ardhendu Bose, A.K. Hangal, Bindiya Goswami and Deven Verma.

Murder at Monte Carlo

Murder at Monte Carlo is an English 1934 mystery crime thriller film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Errol Flynn, Eve Gray, Paul Graetz and Molly Lamont, the production was Flynn's debut film in a lead role in England.

Overheard

Overheard 2, 2011 Hong Kong crime thriller film, sequel to the 2009 film Overheard

Patricia Laffan

In Escape Route (1953), a crime thriller, she played Irma Brooks.

Paul Meurisse

Other notable films in which Meurisse appeared include Julien Duvivier's inquisitorial and oppressive Marie-Octobre (1959), Jean Renoir's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1959), Clouzot's courtroom drama La Vérité (1960) and crime thriller Le deuxième souffle (1966).

Red: The Dark Side

Red: The Dark Side is a 2007 Bollywood crime thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt.

Rob Allyn

In 2012, Allyn co-wrote and produced Java Heat, a crime-thriller set in Indonesia about an American (played by Kellan Lutz) who teams up with a local cop (Ario Bayu) to track down an eccentric jewel-thief (played by Mickey Rourke).

Sapperton Canal Tunnel

In the novel Gone by Mo Hayder the tunnel is used extensively as a location in this crime thriller.

Stephen Flemmi

Flemmi is the basis of Frank Costello's chief enforcer and contract killer "Arnold French" portrayed by Ray Winstone in the 2006 crime thriller The Departed.

Takashi Ishii

He has directed several pinku eiga erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 nihilistic crime thriller Gonin starring Takeshi Kitano.

The Baskerville Hounds

They have one movie soundtrack to their credit, "Hurtin' Kind", as the Tulu Babies, in the British-made crime thriller "Gangster No. 1", starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, and David Thewlis.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Argento borrowed heavily from crime thriller literature (some plot elements derive from works of Fredric Brown; Musante's character is named after an early incarnation of Raymond Chandler's iconic character Philip Marlowe) and from previous Italian thrillers (the killer's attire was lifted from Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace, of which he closely imitated the gory murder sequences) but he managed to make the end result fresh and provocative instead of derivative.

The Coverup

The Coverup, previously known as The Thacker Case, is a crime-thriller film directed by Brian Jun and starring Gabriel Mann and Eliza Dushku.

The Long Memory

A crime thriller filmed on the North Kent Marshes on the Thames Estuary and the dingy backstreets of Gravesend (now long since demolished), its bleak setting and grim atmosphere have led to its acclaim as a British example of film noir.

The Power of the Dog

The Power of the Dog is a 2005 crime/thriller novel by Don Winslow, based on the DEA's involvement with the War on Drugs.

Urmila Mahanta

A student of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Urmila appeared in various plays, short films and television series, before making her feature film debut in the critically acclaimed 2012 Tamil crime thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9.

Wallace Terry

Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 - May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1984), which served as a basis for the 1995 crime thriller Dead Presidents.