How these two movies came to be made is a story as tortured and complex as any Hollywood thriller.

The world of the arms trafficker often feels like the script of a bad Hollywood thriller come to life.

The extremely detailed images often look like scenes in a Hollywood thriller.

"It was all rather like a Hollywood thriller," said Joe cheerfully.

But if you've watched any kind of Hollywood thriller at all, then the appeal is lost".

It sounds like the makings of the latest Hollywood thriller.

And how is the silent old Hollywood thriller now?

The cast of characters was right out of a Hollywood thriller.

For a writer who works so close to the bone, the superficial territory occupied by the Hollywood thriller seems to be a no man's land.

He also tried his hand at a Hollywood thriller, the 1989 film "January Man."