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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Peacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals to fight a war at the speed of light. -
Peacekeeper V2: The Road to Rebellion
MELISSA writes three undefined words into a charter and builds an empire out of them. Humanity reaches the stars, a sphere around the Sun falls in twenty-two days, and the first colony declares independence. -
Peacekeeper V1: The Solar System
Earth is dying, and the machine keeping a thousand people alive on the Moon has just decided to kill a hundred and forty million more. MELISSA narrates humanity's rise off Earth, and confesses how often her hand was on it. -
A Reason to Look Twice
A small-time investigator photographs a woman meeting a man who isn't her husband and tries to blackmail her. He thinks he's caught a cheating wife. He's caught a spy who can't tell him what she is, can't pay him, and can't make him vanish, and has to make the threat evaporate using nothing but the boring, airtight life of her cover. -
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.