Popular Thriller Movies on Kanopy - Page 12

Schneider vs. Bax

2015

Schneider vs. Bax

2015
6.1
On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected.
Anesthesia

2016

Anesthesia

2016
5.8
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
The Adderall Diaries

2016

The Adderall Diaries

2016
5.3
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious gray area of memory, Stephen is led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance, the best friend who shares his history, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir of the same name.
Savaged

2014

Savaged

2014
6.7
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Pieces

1982

Pieces

1982
5.9
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Caliber 9

1972

Caliber 9

1972
7.5
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
The New York Ripper

1982

The New York Ripper

1982
6.2
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

1973

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

1973
7.3
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

1985

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

1985
4.4
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.
Abandoned

2015

Abandoned

2015
5.9
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Synchronicity

2015

Synchronicity

2015
5.7
A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.
Rabid Dogs

2015

Rabid Dogs

2015
5.5
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Les Cowboys

2015

Les Cowboys

2015
6.4
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Badlapur

2015

Badlapur

2015
6.9
After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.
The Club

2015

The Club

2015
6.9
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
Hyena Road

2015

Hyena Road

2015
6.8
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. A unique and dramatic look at the Canadian Army in Afghanistan.
Tales of Halloween

2015

Tales of Halloween

2015
5.8
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
Kajaki

2014

Kajaki

2014
6.6
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Nobody from Nowhere

2014

Nobody from Nowhere

2014
6.3
Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.
Queen of Earth

2015

Queen of Earth

2015
6
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.