Scott Frank

The Queen’s Gambit 2020–

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.

Category: Drama

Stars: Moses Ingram, Chloe Pirrie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Janina Elkin

8,7 IMDB Rating 26,517 Views
A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014

Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Liam Neeson,Maurice Compte,Patrick McDade,Luciano Acuna Jr.

6.5 IMDB Rating 6,324 Views
The Lookout 2007

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,825 Views