Blind Fury 1990  R, 86 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster, Nick Cassavetes, Rick Overton, Sho Kosugi
Blindness is the gimmick employed when a sightless swordsman uses his martial-arts skills in a quest against evil. The swordsman is based on a blind Samurai, Zatoichi, who made Japanese movies in the 1960s.
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The Bone Collector 1999 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzman, Leland Orser, John Benjamin Hickey, Bobby Cannavale, Ed O'Neill, Gary Swanson, Frank Fontaine, Richard Zeman, Olivia Birkelund, James Bulleit
A serial killer is on the loose in New York City with a modus operandi of torturing first, killing next, and finally removing a bone from the victim to save as a souvenir. Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), a bedridden paraplegic, becomes interested in locating the killer and recruits Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) to help. Working against the clock–and Rhyme's seizures–the two cohorts set out on the trail of the brutal killer.
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Catch a Fire 2006  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha, Sithembiso Khumalo, Terry Pheto, Michele Burgers, Mpho Lovinga, Mxo, Jessica Anstey, Charlotte Savage
This political thriller is set during the 1980s in South Africa and is based on the true story of oil refinery foreman Patrick Chamusso who is uninvolved politically with the world in which he lives. But, after his refinery is sabotaged by an explosion and Patrick is the chief suspect, he undergoes days of torture as police Colonel Nic Vos (Tim Robbins) interrogates him. Patrick's wife, Precious (Bonnie Mbuli), is also brought in and beaten. Failing to obtain a confession, the police release Patrick and Precious, and Patrick heads to Mozambique where he trains in terrorist tactics with the anti-apartheid African National Congress and makes plans to blow up his old refinery.
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 Clear and Present Danger 1994  PG-13, 142 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones, Donald Moffat, Harris Yulin, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Jones, Thora Birch, Hope Lange, Henry Czerny, Miguel Sandoval, Benjamin Bratt, Raymond Cruz, Ann Magnuson
In the United States, the President is given the power to order military might only in the case of "clear and present danger" to the national security. This is the reasoning behind President Edward Bennett (Donald Moffat) ordering Special Forces into Colombia to break up a drug cartel. Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is the President's intelligence deputy who leads the covert military attack. Intrigue and action prevail from beginning to end.
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Heatwave 1982 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, Anna Maria Monticelli, John Gregg, John Meillon, Dennis Miller, Peter Hehir, Carole Skinner
This is a mystery-thriller involving political under-handed dealings in real estate construction involving $100 million. Judy Davis plays an idealist who opposes the building and Richard Moir plays the architect who has the project.
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Patriot Games 1992 R, 116 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, J.E. Freeman, Alex Norton, David Threlfall, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Fraser
Former CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) and his family–wife Cathy (Anne Archer) and daughter Sally (Thora Birch)–are on a vacation in England. While they are preparing to tour Buckingham Palace, an assassination attempt is foiled when Jack saves Lord Holmes (James Fox) from a terrorist attack. Later, the Ryans return to the family home in Maryland but do not resume their normal routines because now they are the targets of those same terrorists, and Jack must come to the rescue.
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 The Quiet American 2002 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Ma, Do Thi Hai Yen, Robert(2) Stanton, Holmes Osborne, Pham Thi Mai Hoa, Ferdinand Hoang, Mathias Mlekuz, Quang Hai, Tim Bennett, Kevin Tran, Lap Phan, Jeff Truman
First filmed in 1958, in this version of Graham Greene's novel, Brendan Fraser takes on the role of American doctor Alden Pyle who falls in love with young Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), the mistress of Pyle's new friend, veteran London Times journalist Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine). Love, politics, and the beginning of the American War in Southeast Asia all play roles in this powerful drama. Michael Caine received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh, Ningali Lawford, Myarn Lawford, Deborah Mailman, Jason Clarke, Garry McDonald, Roy Billing
In 1931, the Australian government endorsed taking aboriginal girls away from their families to train as domestics. Those children became known as the Stolen Generation. Fourteen-year-old Molly (Everlyn Sampi), 10-year-old sister Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), and 10-year-old cousin Gracie (Laura Monaghan) escaped from one government camp in 1931 and set out on a 1,500 mile trek in search of a rabbit-proof fence that would lead them home. This film is based on their true story.
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 The Saint 1997 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeri Nikolayev, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong, Michael Byrne, Yevgeni Lazarev, Irina Apeksimova, Emily Mortimer
Society, after the fall of communism in Russia, is depicted as filled with criminal intrigue. The Saint, Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), is the man who can change identities at the drop at the hat. Now, he has been hired by a Moscow billionaire to steal the secret of cold fusion from an Oxford scientist, Dr. Emma Russell (Elisabeth Shue). While stealing the formula, he falls in love with her.
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Sliver 1993 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Martin Landau, Colleen Camp, CCH Pounder, Nina Foch, Keene Curtis, Nicholas Pryor, Amanda Foreman, Anne Betancourt, Tony Peck, Dr. Melvyn Kinder, Frantz Turner
Following her divorce, Carly Norris (Sharon Stone) finds a new apartment in a needle-shaped structure. The shape of this apartment building is not the only thing strange about it; its occupants could only be described as extremely peculiar. Carly meets new neighbors–author Jack Lansford (Tom Berenger) and her landlord Zeke Hawkins (William Baldwin)–who are both attracted to her, and she begins an affair with Zeke. Carly learns that women in the apartment building have been killed and that the police suspect that a serial killer is responsible. When Carly discovers that Zeke has secretly wired the apartments and watches the activities of the tenants, she suspects him as the killer but, at the same time, becomes obsessed with the lives of her neighbors. Is Carly setting herself up to be the next victim?
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| 1. Blind Fury (1990)
2. The Bone Collector (1999)
3. Catch a Fire (2006)
4. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
5. Dead Calm (1989)
6. Heatwave (1982)
7. Newsfront (1978)
8. Patriot Games (1992)
9. The Quiet American (2002)
10. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
11. The Saint (1997)
12. Sliver (1993)
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