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.
Budget: $1,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $24,500,000 (USA)
Cast
 | James Stewart | |
 | Grace Kelly | |
 | Wendell Corey | |
 | Thelma Ritter | |
 | Raymond Burr | |
 | Judith Evelyn | |
 | Ross Bagdasarian | |
| Georgine Darcy | |
| Sara Berner | |
 | Frank Cady | |
| Jesslyn Fax | |
| Rand Harper | |
| Irene Winston | |
| Havis Davenport |
Thriller Narrative 2 - 'Taken' (2008, Morel) (Information from IMDB)
Plot
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,165,986 (UK) (26 September 2008)Gross:
$145,000,989 (USA) (3 July 2009)
Cast
Thriller Narrative 3 - 'Phonebooth' (2002, Schumacher) (Information IMDB)
Plot
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is Pam, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die?
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is Pam, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die?
Budget:
$13,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$15,021,088 (USA) (4 April 2003)Gross:
$46,563,158 (USA) (25 July 2003)
Cast
 | Colin Farrell | |
 | Kiefer Sutherland | |
 | Forest Whitaker |
Captain Ramey
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 | Radha Mitchell | |
 | Katie Holmes | |
 | Paula Jai Parker | |
 | Arian Ash | |
 | Tia Texada | |
 | John Enos III | |
 | Richard T. Jones | |
 | Keith Nobbs | |
 | Dell Yount | |
 | James MacDonald |
Negotiator (as James Macdonald)
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 | Josh Pais | |
 | Yorgo Constantine |
ESU Commander
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