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7.4 (605K) Rate. 84 Metascore. In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
- Memento
- With A Friend Like Harry...
- Mulholland Drive
- Ripley's Game
- Oldboy
- Runaway Jury
- Caché
- Death Proof
- Zodiac
- Changeling
“Okay, so what am I doing?” Guy Pearce asks himself in Memento, as he’s racing down a street in pursuit of — or possibly pursued by — a deadly assailant. It’s a question Christopher Nolan’s second feature asks itself many times, as the narrative works its way backward from scene to scene. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, who suffered brain trauma durin...
A chance encounter to a public restroom reintroduces Michel (Laurent Lucas) to an old high school friend named Harry (Sergi Lopez), and even though Michel has no memory of Harry, Harry remembers everything about him. And Harry is disappointed to discover that in the years that followed, the young Michel, who had so much potential, has become saddle...
David Lynch transformed a failed TV pilot into one of the most celebrated films of the century with Mulholland Drive, a feverish saga of isolation and bitterness in the Hollywood Hills. Naomi Watts stars as Betty Elms, a naive aspiring actor who falls in love with Rita (Laura Harring) an amnesiac recovering from a mysterious car accident. As they p...
Patricia Highsmith’s many tales about Tom Ripley — the chameleonic, sociopathic murderer — have been adapted to the screen several times before. But where The Talented Mr. Ripley painted a romantic view of the antihero as a tragic, lonely figure, Liliana Cavani’s Ripley’s Game visits an older, more comfortable Ripley, played by a slithery John Malk...
Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) was just going about his drunken business when he was kidnapped and thrown into a locked hotel room for 15 years, with nothing but a television for company. Then, without warning, he’s suddenly released back into the world and told he has five days to discover why he was imprisoned in the first place: if he succeeds, his ca...
The John Grisham adaptation Runaway Jurywas released to a shrugging audience upon its initial release, but perhaps no other Grisham adaptation has aged as gracefully. John Cusack stars as Nick Easter, a randomly selected juror on a landmark case, in which the family of a mass shooting victim is suing the gun industry for their culpability in his de...
Directed with subtle terror by Michael Haneke, the ingenious thriller Cachéasks a deeply unsettling question: if you were being watched, and judged, and you didn’t know who it was, what would you assume they knew about you? Daniel AuteuilandJuliette Binoche play a bourgeois middle-aged couple who discover, to their consternation and gradual horror,...
Originally released as the second half of an experimental double bill called Grindhouse, paired with Robert Rodriguez’s outlandish horror-comedy Planet Terror, the serial killer car chase thriller Death Proofdeftly recaptures the sleazy thrill of watching a low-budget thrill ride at a smoke-filled theater in the 1970s. Kurt Russellstars as Stuntman...
The real-life murder spree of the Zodiac Killer never had a satisfying conclusion in real life, but in the hands of David Fincher, that’s what makes the story so hypnotic. Jake Gyllenhaal plays cartoonist Robert Graysmith, Robert Downey Jr. plays crime reporter Paul Avery, and Mark Ruffaloplays detective Dave Toschi, who each dedicate their lives t...
As a director, Clint Eastwood may be most famous for making serious dramas and revisionist westerns, but he started his career with an acclaimed thriller (Play Misty for Me) and he never forgot how to ratchet up tension. Changeling tells the intense true story of Christine Collins, played by an Oscar-nominated Angelina Jolie, whose son goes missing...
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Best Mystery & Thriller Movies 2022. Rian Johnson assembled another all-star whodunit, and critics were living for every bit of delicious, hilarious drama. Glass Onion proved that Johnson is one...
- The Silence of the Lambs. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn. 725 votes. When an intelligent, young FBI agent seeks the help of a manipulative and brilliant cannibalistic serial killer to catch another notorious killer, you know you're in for a wild ride.
- Seven. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow. 709 votes. With its dark, twisted plot and stellar cast, this thriller hooks viewers from beginning to end.
- Rear Window. James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey. 344 votes. A bit of voyeurism never hurt anybody- or did it? In this classic Hitchcock tale, a man confined to a wheelchair becomes increasingly obsessed with his neighbors' lives, leading him down a dangerous path filled with suspicion and paranoia.
- Primal Fear. Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Ed Norton. 385 votes. When a slick defense attorney takes on his most challenging case - representing a seemingly innocent altar boy accused of murder - he finds himself ensnared in a web of deception and intrigue.
Best Mystery & Thriller Movies 2023. It may not have been able to overcome Talk to Me as Best International Movie, but Justine Triet’s mystery Anatomy of a Fall has been firmly embedded in the...
Best Thriller Movies 2021. A good thriller offers gripping mystery and edge-of-your-seat tension, and the movies featured here prove that thrills come in all sizes. Boiling Point demonstrates...
Sep 2, 2022 · Thrillers are dark, engrossing, and suspenseful plot-driven stories. They very seldom include comedic elements. Any novel can generate excitement, suspense, interest, and exhilaration, but because these are the primary goals of the thriller genre, thriller writers have laser-focused expertise in keeping a reader interested.
