8mm (film) 8mm (film) 8mm is a 1999 American-German crime mystery film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films. Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, and Anthony Heald appear in supporting roles. Private investigator Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) is contacted by Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald), attorney for wealthy widow Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter), whose husband has recently died. While clearing out her late husband's safe, she and Mr. Longdale find an 8mm movie which appears to depict a real murder, but Mrs.
Social thriller Jesús", Frence's "L'Atelier"; Brazil's "Rifle", and the remake of Argentina's "La Patota". "Variety" wrote that animated film "Tales of the Hedgehog" was both "a children’s thriller" and "a social thriller-fable" after director Alain Gagnol described it as a “suspenseful social fable.” From Hollywood, the social media scandal movie "Assassination Nation", and James Gunn's "The Belko Experiment", were promised as social thrillers, as was Stephen King's "The Dark Tower", the third of the author-director's movies to be cited as part of the social thriller canon. Use of social thriller as a genre term has come under scrutiny since its widened use.