Thriller
Pay the Ghost
(2015)
Tim Lebbon (novel), Dan Kay (screenplay)
1 win & 2 nominations.
One year after Mike Lawford's young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, he is haunted by ghostly images and terrifying messages he can't explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son-and, in doing so, he unearths the legend of the crying woman who refuses to remain buried in the past.
Point Break
(1991)
Rick King (story), W. Peter Iliff (story), W. Peter Iliff (screenplay)
1 win & 2 nominations.
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend.
Poltergeist
(1982)
Steven Spielberg (screenplay by), Michael Grais (screenplay by), Mark Victor (screenplay by), Steven Spielberg (story by)
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
Predestination
(2014)
Michael Spierig (written by), Peter Spierig (written by), Robert A. Heinlein (based on the short story "All You Zombies" by)
11 wins & 18 nominations.
PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
Primer
(2004)
Shane Carruth
3 wins & 7 nominations.
At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
Psycho
(1960)
Joseph Stefano (screenplay), Robert Bloch (novel)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations.
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.
Push
(2009)
David Bourla
1 win & 2 nominations.
Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.
Rear Window
(1954)
John Michael Hayes (screenplay), Cornell Woolrich (based on the short story by)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations.
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Red Dragon
(2002)
Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay)
4 wins & 10 nominations.
FBI Agent Will Graham has been called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer, known by authorities as "The Tooth Fairy". He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, so that he can be able to catch "The Tooth Fairy" and bring him to justice. The only problem is that "The Tooth Fairy" is getting inside information about Graham and his family from none other than Dr. Lecter.
Red Eye
(2005)
Carl Ellsworth (screenplay), Carl Ellsworth (story), Dan Foos (story)
2 wins & 9 nominations.
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
(2009)
David Peace (novel), Tony Grisoni (screenplay)
4 wins & 9 nominations.
In 1974, Eddie Dunford, comes home from South England and gets a job as a cub reporter for the Yorkshire Post. A schoolgirl has gone missing, and Eddie suspects it's one of several crimes dating back six years; the police think not and blame gypsies. Eddie digs; the police stonewall him then two of them beat him after he visits the widowed mother of one of the girls missing for a few years. When a child's body turns up at a construction site of local building magnate John Dawson, Eddie has another thread to pull. By now, he's begun an affair with Paula, the widowed mom, and he suspects collusion among Dawson, the police, and his newspaper - but what are they covering up?
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
(2009)
Tony Grisoni (screenplay), David Peace (novel)
2 nominations.
With a serial killer claiming victim 13 and rumors of corruption in their force, the West Yorkshire cops are told to cooperate with a team from outside - Peter Hunter and two hand-picked associates. Hunter gets little help but plunges ahead, discovering that one of the 13 victims may have a different killer. This part of the investigation leads to late-night calls, another murder, and bureaucratic moves to push Hunter aside: he may be getting close, not to the serial killer but to bad apples in the force. Christmas approaches.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
(2009)
David Peace (novel), Tony Grisoni (screenplay)
1 nomination.
A murky tale. A child goes missing in West Yorkshire, one of several over ten years; the police find a patsy, an acquaintance of Michael, a blood simple man serving a life sentence for another girl's death. Michael's mother asks John Piggott, a burned-out solicitor, to look into her son's conviction; Piggott finds injustices in current and past cases. Maurice Jobson, part of a group of corrupt cops, searches for the missing girl, involves a medium, finds nothing, leans hard on Piggott, and may be tiring of the sham. He's warned off going soft. Is there moral strength anywhere capable of facing down the cabal?
Reservoir Dogs
(1992)
Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary (background radio dialog), Quentin Tarantino (background radio dialog)
9 wins & 14 nominations.
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Reykjavik-Rotterdam
(2008)
Arnaldur Indriðason (screenplay), Óskar Jónasson (screenplay)
5 wins & 2 nominations.
Financial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
Riddick
(2013)
David Twohy, Jim Wheat (based on characters created by), Ken Wheat (based on characters created by)
2 nominations.
The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won't leave the planet without Riddick's head as their trophy.
Road to Perdition
(2002)
Max Allan Collins (graphic novel), Richard Piers Rayner (graphic novel), David Self (screenplay)
Won 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 70 nominations.
Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.
RoboCop
(2014)
Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
4 wins & 1 nomination.
The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
RocknRolla
(2008)
Guy Ritchie
1 win & 5 nominations.
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but very much alive -- has a multi-million dollar prize fall into...
Run Lola Run
(1998)
Tom Tykwer (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 28 wins & 19 nominations.
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.