The best Ed Lauter’s thriller movies

Ed Lauter

Ed Lauter

30/10/1938- 16/10/2013
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True Romance

True Romance
7.9/10
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Cujo

Cujo
6.1/10
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Breakheart Pass

Breakheart Pass
6.7/10
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.

Raw Deal

Raw Deal
5.6/10
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.

Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days
7.3/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 24/12/2000
  • Character: Gen. Marshall Carter
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.

The Number 23

The Number 23
6.4/10
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls
6.3/10
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

The Town that Dreaded Sundown
5.6/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 16/10/2014
  • Character: Sheriff Underwood
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

Family Plot

Family Plot
6.8/10
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, an unemployed actor.

Magic

Magic
6.8/10
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

Golden Years

Golden Years
5.2/10
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.

Gleaming the Cube

Gleaming the Cube
6.2/10
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.

Eureka

Eureka
5.9/10
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.

French Connection II

French Connection II
6.7/10
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

The Lost

The Lost
5.9/10
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.

The Midnight Man

The Midnight Man
6.4/10
An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?

Lassiter

Lassiter
5.8/10
Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.

Top of the World

Top of the World
4.5/10
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.

The Sweeper

The Sweeper
5.1/10
A young cop, haunted by the murder of his entire family years earlier, is recruited by a shadowy organization to hunt down criminals who are beyond the reach of the law.

Digital Man

Digital Man
4.7/10
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.

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