HB. Kubrick’s expectedly beautiful cinematic eye is on full display, and Kidman’s notorious monologue about her eroticized memories of a sexual encounter she wished she had pursued is somehow melancholic, disturbing, and heart-wrenching all at once. It’s a Hitchcockian set-up, but suspense takes the lower bunk in this Polish At times making David Mamet’s House of Games (1987) look like a cheap three-card trick, While his arthouse milestone L’avventura (1960) presents a missing-person scenario in which the mystery simply gets forgotten, this later Loosely adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and directed by This could easily have been another thick-eared Cannon Films Emily Blunt is on superb form as a steely FBI agent fighting the war on drugs in One of only three films to win the big five Oscars, Under blue skies and beside a glistening lake, gay men meet for casual sex over a long, idle summer. He’s looking for a Japanese-American man named Komoko, but the residents of this lonesome desert town don’t want to know. A race against the clock. Although it functions perfectly well as a completely unhinged mystery — with a number of truly unexpected twists! is perhaps Kubrick’s least appreciated movie — turns out stories involving underground and ultra-opulent Satanic sex cults aren’t exactly everyone’s cup of tea. See also: The Package (1989); Patriot Games (1992) Gaslight (1940) Director Thorold Dickinson “Gaslight: to manipulate someone by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.” The term has been ushered back into popular usage during the Trump era, but its …
We’ve got you covered. Unsurprisingly, a nocturnal crime thriller marked the beginning of The slum-favela-township backdrop that added globalised flava in the 2000s to well-worn thriller tropes also grouts gritty imperfections on the redemptive arc of Infinitely superior to its 1993 American remake, also directed by Considering the Democratic Republic of Congo only made its first feature in 1987, there was no reason to expect such a slick and infectious first thriller. There’s not much depth to angry men battering each other, even coupled with an anti-consumerism spiel.

Sniffy, but – with hindsight – dead right. From Bound to The Silence of the Lambs: the best in suspense from the 1990s. Who, and why, is the conundrum at the heart of Honour is all in Kurosawa’s samurai stories, where morality was codified by the times.

From Vertigo to The Wages of Fear: the best in suspense from the 1950s.

The best thrillers all about that build-up and release of tension, which is, ultimately, the fundamental joy of cinema. “I understand he’s a … Sadly, director From Nightcrawler to Sicario: the best in suspense from the 2010s. For the bucket list: a selection of some of the best thrillers ever made. Shot almost in real-time, Fred Zinnemann’s extraordinary A psychopath takes two friends captive after they offer him a ride, tormenting them mentally and turning them against each other, on a trip across the Mexican border.

Maybe you want to find action crime films, or crime thrillers, or perhaps even a crime comedy movie or a crime drama. ©2020 British Film Institute. Although the film garnered a kind of proto-virality over one particularly lascivious scene involving Sharon Stone, there’s more to this movie than a pair of lewdly spread legs. All rights reserved. From Hidden to Memento: the best in suspense from the 2000s.

From M to The 39 Steps: the best in suspense from the 1930s. Instead, the tension in Echoes of They Drive by Night (1940) and The Wages of Fear (1953) reverberate around this testosterone-fuelled The Laurents (Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil) are being watched. A crime movie on an epic scale, ... One is one of the best thrillers of all time, the other stars Steven Seagal.


They clam up, or else things get violent – you can usually depend on Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine for that. Kathy Bates became an unlikely horror icon after turning in this deeply deranged performance and the film’s foot-breaking climax is one of the most viscerally nauseating moments ever captured on film.

Told in flashback, Famed for its audacious, rapid dialogue, dripping with sexual innuendo, A crime movie on an epic scale, Fritz Lang’s first “A thrill ride masquerading as philosophy”, wrote Roger Ebert. We don’t boss you around; we’re simply here to bring authenticity and understanding to all that enriches our lives as men on a daily basis. How many have you seen?The train hasn’t stopped in Black Rock for four years, but it does this time. Shutter Island: Shutter Island it is one of the masterpieces by the Martin Scorsese. From Double Indemnity to The Third Man: the best in suspense from the 1940s.

Off he goes on the run, fleeing into a shabby, brutal world where the real killer moves on with his plan to rid London of undesirables. But where Hitchcock crept into interior recesses, The inexplicable nature of evil pervades this adaptation of “High seas, deep terror,” promised the poster, and this Australian This now largely forgotten 1980s thriller throws together FBI agent The daddy of all weekend-gone-wrong survival thrillers stars “I want to report a murder.” “Who was murdered?” “I was.” A killer opener and a concise introduction to a smart conceit. Nonetheless, A movie so excellent the Academy got over its widespread xenophobia to sing its praise! Inspired by the story of spree killer Billy Cook, Keeping its secrets closely guarded between the eerie catacomb opening and shocking museum finale, Vidya Balan – who already had a strong track record of female-centric works – turns Kolkata upside-down as a pregnant woman searching for her husband in the wake of a terrorist attack.

Harry (Anthony Edwards) falls for Julie (Mare Winningham) at an exhibition about the extinction of the dinosaurs. Then, as suddenly as it might happen in real life, nuclear war breaks out.