Genre: Thriller
Thrillers run on tension and pace — danger, stakes, and a clock running down, pulling you forward to find out whether the worst comes true.
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Get Out (2017)
Jordan Peele's 2017 directorial debut. Daniel Kaluuya at his white girlfriend's parents' house. Sunken Place. Won Best Original Screenplay. -
Saw (2004)
Two men wake chained in a filthy bathroom and discover they are pawns in a sadistic puzzle designed by the Jigsaw killer. -
Audition (1999)
Takashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate. -
The Sixth Sense (1999)
M. Night Shyamalan's story of a child psychologist treating a boy who sees dead people, with the famous third-act revelation. -
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
An FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. -
Psycho (1960)
Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. -
Misery (1990)
A romance novelist crashes in a Colorado snowstorm and is rescued by a deranged fan who imprisons him in her remote home. -
The China Syndrome (1979)
James Bridges' 1979 nuclear plant near-meltdown. Lemmon, Fonda, Douglas. Released twelve days before Three Mile Island. Predictive. -
Body Heat (1981)
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 directorial debut. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner. Double Indemnity through 1980s Florida humidity. Murder plot. -
Ronin (1998)
John Frankenheimer's 1998 Cold War remnant action. De Niro, Reno, Sean Bean. Practical car chases through Paris and Nice.