Thriller Movies of 1996
Primal Fear
A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Diabolique
Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic French thriller gets a Hollywood ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Fan
Robert De Niro is Gil Renard, baseball fan from hell. Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) is the player he is nuts about. No sooner does the talented Rayburn sign a huge contract with the San Francisco ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Secret Agent
In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Extreme Measures
Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Juror
A woman serving on the jury of an anti-Mafia trial must protect herself and her young son from a psychopathic gangster in this thriller. Demi Moore ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Persons Unknown
This tightly woven, fast-paced thriller begins ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Chain Reaction
Just as the university research team is about to prove that their new technique will permit water to be used as a fuel, their laboratory is sabotaged and the lab manager is killed. Eddie ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Mistrial
An angry cop literally kidnaps a court proceeding in a desperate bid for justice in this made-for-cable drama. Eddie Rios (John Seda) stands accused of the murder of two police officers, but ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
In this fifth TV movie based on the character of incorruptible Chicago detective Jack Reed, Brian ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Head Above Water
A woman finds out how the dead body of your old boyfriend can ruin your whole day in this black comedy. Nathalie (Cameron Diaz) is a lovely ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Long Kiss Goodnight
An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Fear
Mark Wahlberg stars in one of his first features as a hoodlum drug dealer from the wrong side of the trackswho falls in love with Nicole Walker, an ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Unforgettable
Iconoclastic director John Dahl used a screenplay by John Geddie as the basis for this far-fetched story of a man -- suspected of killing his wife -- who borrows murder victims' ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The People Next Door
A single mother moves into a new neighborhood unaware that her new neighbors, a couple unable to have their own children, have designs on hers. ~ Sandra Brennan, ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Menno's Mind
In this sci-fi thriller a computer expert's mind is ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Rich Man's Wife
This is a domestic thriller in the Hitchcock mode with a legalistic twist involving that modern ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Inspired by a true story, director John Patterson's made for television thriller stars ageing ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Sacred Cargo
A man who thinks that he's on a mission of mercy finds himself in the middle of international espionage at its most dangerous in this thriller. Father Andrew Kanevsky (Martin Sheen) is a Catholic priest who persuades his brother Vince (Chris Penn) ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Babysitter's Seduction
In this suspenseful drama, a babysitter learns that she may be marked for murder by her best employer, a man whose wife was recently killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Dead Innocent
Canadian actress Genvieve Bujold headlines this taut tale of an attorney whose irate client holds her daughter at gunpoint and threatens to kill her unless the lawyer commit suicide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Don't Look Back
A drug addict gets more than a quick fix in this made-for-cable thriller. Eric Stoltz stars as Jesse Parish, a musician and druggie who leads a mobster to his old stomping grounds after stealing a case of cash and ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Trigger Effect
The film's opening sequence takes the audience inside a mall, where a series of minor slights among strangers leads to an inexorable tension. Eventually, the focus settles on the main ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Nirvana
A computer virus endows Solo (Diego Abatantuono), the hero of a virtual reality game, with human consciousness, thereby creating all kinds of headaches ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Night of the Twisters
A peaceful Nebraska town on a sweltering summer day becomes the setting for an unprecedented disaster when it is struck by a deadly ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Serial Bomber
This direct-to-video thriller stars Jason London as a grungy-looking Seattle ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Where Truth Lies
Psychotherapist Dr. Ian Lazarre becomes dangerously depressed after his beloved first wife is killed in a car wreck. Though he has since married a woman who looks exactly like her, he is still unhappy and drinking heavily. Wanting to ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Deadly Voyage
This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
An Unfinished Affair
In this drama, a husband's moment of indiscretion has nearly catastrophic consequences when his mistress refuses to accept that their affair is over. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Extasis
Three aimless, unemployed and penniless youths hatch a devious plot in order to escape their nowhere lives in this lively Spanish thriller that begins as Rober and Max rob a ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War
A young boy and a brilliant scientist attempt to thwart an evil cyber-villain's attempts to take over the world in this inferior sequel to the 1992 sci-fi adventure ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
An Occasional Hell
This preposterous thriller stars Tom Berenger (Platoon) as Ernie Dewalt, a drug-addicted ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Last Assassins
In this action adventure, a former hit woman comes out of retirement to ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Boys Club
Bored small-town teens anxious for excitement get in over their heads when they believe the wild tales of a wounded stranger in this absorbing and ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Closer and Closer
In this thriller, an author who was paralyzed after she was attacked by a serial killer who had been inspired to violence by her first book decides to publish a sequel. It proves to be a bad idea, for no sooner is it published than she ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Touched by Evil
Singer Paula Abdul makes her acting debut in this tense ABC TV movie. Recovering from a vicious attack by a serial rapist, businesswoman Ellen Collier (Paula Abdul) finds comfort and security in her relationship ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Assault
In this police drama, a policewoman risks her life to protect a key witness in a gangland killing. The cop and her charge hide out in a woman's shelter and this leads to a brutal attack. Despite the violence and ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Navajo Blues
In this lurid direct-to-video crime thriller a Las Vegas policeman's superiors send him to hide out at a Navajo reservation after he states his determination to ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Element of Doubt
In this made-for-television drama, a wife idealizes her husband until she discovers the awful truth of his terrible deceptions. ~ Sandra ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Darkdrive
Ken Olandt stars as Steven Falcon in this science fiction thriller. In the future, criminals are confined to a virtual prison which controls their minds, but when ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Keeper
Much of this absorbing, grim psychological thriller is set within Brooklyn's Kings County House of Detention and follows the moral downfall of an ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Champions
William Rockman retires from the illegal sport of extreme fighting while he's still at the top of his game. But when he discovers his brother has followed in his footsteps and lost his life in the ring, William must stage a ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Venus Rising
Set in a future in which society is controlled by an omnipotent corporation, this sci-fi thriller centers on a pair of fugitives ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
A Kiss So Deadly
In this suspenseful thriller the murder of a college co-ed's roommate puts her in danger too because the killer may be someone closer to her than she knows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Question of Luck
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Vice Girls
In this erotic police thriller, three beauteous vice cops go undercover as porno actresses to catch a killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Stendhal Syndrome
The title affliction causes sufferers to react to paintings in extreme and bizarre ways. In the case of police detective Anna Manni, she swoons and feels herself entering hallucinatory versions of the artwork she sees. This Italian ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Without Evidence
In 1989, Oregon Department of Corrections director Michael Francke was murdered near an office ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Thesis
The debut feature from Spanish wunderkind Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your Eyes, The Others), Tesis is a ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Organ
Organ is definitely not a film for the faint-hearted or those easily nauseated. ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Ilona Arrives with the Rain
Based on a novel by Colombian author Alvaro Mutis, this frothy adventure chronicles the exploits of an unlikely trio of wanderers trying to earn money in Panama City during the 1950s. As the film ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Thrill
In this nail-biter, an engineer endures many ups and downs while trying to ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Wolverine
In this thriller, Harry Gordini (Antonio Sabato Jr.) is an American travelling through Europe with his wife and his ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Live Wire: Human Timebomb
The U.S. government faces its most deadly adversary ever when top FBI agent Jim Parker (Bryan Genesse) is abducted by a nefarious Cuban general and implanted with a stolen military computer chip that turns him into a deadly terrorist in this ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Depraved
In this erotic thriller, Ophelia (Seidy Lopez) and ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
The Best Revenge
In this tense, politically-charged drama, Carlos (Carlos Riccelli), a widower from El Salvador, comes to the U.S. ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Kimera
Vampires have been the subject of folklore and wives tales for centuries, but with the crashing of several mysterious "life pods" to Earth's surface, these stories go from myth to reality. Now, these creatures ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Jane Street
In this erotic thriller, a woman carrying on an affair with her married boss begins ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
All Night Long, Vol. 3
The third and final chapter in the disturbing All Night Long series tells the tale of a teenager who becomes obsessed with his attractive ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
All of a Sudden
Herman Yau spins this low-budget erotic thriller featuring the softcore screen debut of pop idol Irene Wan. The film opens with a naked woman ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Scarred Memory
Veronica Yip Yuk-hing stars in this romantic thriller about doctor Ivy Yip who one day is attacked and raped by an assailant whose face was obscured. The incident sends her reeling, sending her ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Terminal
One of the acknowledged masters of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, co-scripted Terminal. Sean O'Grady (Doug Savant) is an intern who begins to wonder about a supposed miracle cancer cure his hospital is dispensing ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Beautiful Prey
This Japanese thriller centers around a beautiful policewoman whose murder investigation leads to her own complicated entanglement within Japan's underground S & M community. When her leads point to a ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Echo of Blue
As the body count continues to rise in a city where greed and corruption fuel a money ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Mortal Challenge
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Neon Signs
An abandoned teen attempts to learn the rules of the road after being left by his mother at a roadside motel in this quirky crime drama starring screen veterans Carol ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Asuntos Internos
The thriller Asuntos Internos concerns a doctor who must go on the run after the assassination of a politician who he physically resembles. The doctor finds that he has a list of numerous ... [ Thriller movie - 1996 ]
Fractured
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