Denzel Washington plays real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe plays the obsessive New York narcotics detective who pursued him through the 1970s.
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
Pierre Morel’s twist on ‘Escape From New York’ set in a near-future Paris is a lean, clean, B-movie action machine fueled by adrenaline and indignation.
Denis Villeneuve directs this violent, chaotic, adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war written by Taylor Sheridan (who went on to create ‘Yellowstone’).
Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller is a smart, tense film pitting a coldly efficient assassin against the cabbie who inadvertently becomes his wheelman.
This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.
