Thrillers
ARROW Essentials has got you covered for THRILLERS. It's that failsafe genre we all rely on when everything else just doesn't quite hit the mark. Mysteries, shocks, surprises, murders - it sounds like an ARROW Thriller. In this collection you will find a wide range of thrillers from the last 50 years that you can investigate, explore and lose yourself in. Always updated as well so you can make sure to check back here as more and more titles get added. It's a perfect crime.
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Breaking Surface
2020 • Belgium • Directed by Joachim Heden
During a winter dive on a remote part of the coast in Northern Norway, two sisters' lives fall into danger; when a rockfall traps one of the sisters on the ocean floor, a battle against time begins in the middle of the wilderness.
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Medusa
2021 • Brazil • Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection. By night, they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets of Brazil in search of sinner...
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The World of Kanako
2014 • Japan • Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her fath...
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Calvaire
2005 • Belgium • Directed by Fabrice Du Welz
Travelling cabaret singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), finds himself stranded when his van breaks down in a remote mountain village. He is rescued by local innkeeper Mr. Bartel (Jackie Berroyer) who offers to help Marc fix his van and give him shelte...
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Steppenwolf
2024 • Kazakhstan • Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
A brutal story of an unlikely duo who will stop at nothing to find what they are looking for, Adilkhan Yerzhanov's award-winning film Steppenwolf is "a nihilistic, hyper-violent redemption tale filled with social commentary" (Molly Henery, The B...
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Cube
2023 • Japan • Directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu
A group of strangers wake up in mysterious room inscribed with an unfamiliar code. Looking for ways to escape, they discover the room is riddled with lethal traps. As fear and distrust swirl around them, the group must work together to survive.
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
2001 • United States • Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport
Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl who was locked in a room for over 12 years.
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The Invitation
2016 • United States • Directed by Karyn Kusama
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer's Body), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden and new husband David's dinner party. The pair's tragic past haunts an equally spooky present: Amid Ede...
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A Killer's Key
1967 • Japan • Directed by Kazuo Mori
Ichikawa’s lone wolf assassin is back in A Killer’s Key, this time masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta who is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to powerful figur...
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A Certain Killer
1967 • Japan • Directed by Kazuo Mori
In A Certain Killer, Shiozaki’s low-profile existence as a chef at a local sushi restaurant serves as a front for his true job as a professional assassin whose modus operandi is poisoned needles. He’s approached by Maeda, a low-ranking member of a local yaku...
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Wolves, Pigs, Men
1964 • Japan • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Three brothers find themselves pitted against each other as rivals in the Yakuza underworld. Jiro robs stolen loot from his younger brother, Sabu, and his gang. When their eldest brother, Kuroki, learns of this, he makes his own plans to conspire against...
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Sea Fog
2014 • Korea • Directed by Sung-bo Shim
Written and produced by Bong Joon-ho (PARASITE, SNOWPIERCER, THE HOST), SEA FOG is a maritime thriller that captures the essence of why he is considered one of the most talented filmmakers working today. Upon learning that his decaying fishing trawler, the...
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Violent Streets
1974 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Gosha
After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Wolf) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza and the violent streets they control. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retir...
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This Game’s Called Murder
2021 • United States • Directed by Adam Sherman
The movie follows the daughter of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf, who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society.
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The Threat
1966 • Japan • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
IMPRISONED IN HIS OWN HOME!
The Threat is a gritty crime drama in the vein of Kurosawa's High and Low, set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising Japan that has left many of its citizens behind.
Misawa (Rentarō Mikuni, Fugitive from the Past, Ve...
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Vital
2005 • Japan • Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryoko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with ...
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Suture
1993 • United States • Directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Inspired by the paranoid visions of John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds, the desert noir of Detour and the black and white widescreen beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another and Woman of the Dunes,...
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.com For Murder
2002 • United States • Directed by Nico Mastorakis
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Nightmare at Noon) showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (including rock stars Roger Da...
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Cop au vin
1985 • France • Directed by Claude Chabrol
The hidden meanness of provincial life is at the heart of Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), as deaths and disappearances intersect around the attempt by a corrupt syndicate of property developers to force a disabled woman and her son from their home.
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Inspector Lavardin
1986 • France • Directed by Claude Chabrol
Inspector Lavardin sees the titular detective investigating the murder of a wealthy and respected catholic author, renowned for his outspoken views against indecency, whose body is found naked and dead on the beach.
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Tenebrae
A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.
A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to...