-
The Conversation
The story of a surveillance expert facing a moral dilemma, The Conversation is considered the finest of the four great paranoia thrillers of the 1970s alongside All the President’s Men, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor.
-
Elle
Based on Betty Blue author Philippe Dijan’s novel Oh, this controversial revenge melodrama is the first film in 10 years from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Robocop).
-
The Glass Key
Renowned crime novelist Dashiell Hammett’s tale of big-city political corruption The Glass Key was originally filmed in 1935, starring George Raft.
-
The Ritual
Four thirty-something university friends reunite for a hiking trip through the forests of north Sweden.
-
Drive
Accounts differ over how they came to collaborate on Drive, but Refn and Gosling both describe their close relationship as “telekinetic.
-
The Big Heat
Police Sergeant Bannion is investigating the apparent suicide of a policeman, when he is suddenly ordered to stop.
-
The Harder They Come
The subsequent role of the film in the popularisation of reggae has detracted from the fact that it’s actually an entertaining crime thriller whose appeal owed much to its social authenticity, notably the use of patois, which gave the film the sense of a national conversation about poverty and opportunity a decade after the early…
-
Wild Men
Danish cinema is having a moment.
-
Riders of Justice
A revenge thriller that combines deadpan humour and violence will inevitably evoke the Coen brothers, while the dynamic of a scarred older man and a young girl on a revenge mission has its precursors in films such as Kiss-Ass and Léon (that the young girl is also called Mathilde is surely no coincidence in a…
-
Pamfir
A family man returned from working abroad is dragged back into crime for one last job. Thrilling and compelling Ukrainian drama set deep in the Carpathians during carnival season, drawing on local folklore to great visual and dramatic effect. "Savagely cinematic, charged with feral energy" (Guardian)."Bold and brave, like its protagonist, PAMFIR gorges on its…
wimbledon film club
Genre: Thriller
View our 401 screenings by season, country, language and other dimensions.
Sign up for the Wimbledon Film Club mailing list to hear about our upcoming screenings.