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In the pantheon of the best thrillers ever made, you’ll find murder, political intrigue, espionage, conspiracy, manipulation, gaslighting and, of course, lots and lots of crime.
The Silence of the Lambs. 1991 1h 58m R. 8.6 (1.6M) Rate. 86 Metascore. A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. Director Jonathan Demme Stars Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn. 3. Shutter Island. 2010 2h 18m R.
Mar 27, 2024 · From Alfred Hitchcock classics like ‘Psycho’ to modern masterpieces like ‘Zodiac,’ Entertainment Weekly is counting down the 40 best thriller movies of all time, ranked.
- 'Wake in Fright'
- 'Sabotage'
- 'Persona'
- 'Let The Fire Burn'
- 'Baby Driver'
- 'Z'
- 'The Player'
- 'The Grifters'
- 'Traffic'
- 'Drug War'
- Director: Ted Kotcheff - Metascore: 85 - Runtime: 114 minutes Director Ted Kotcheff, known for Weekend at Bernie's and First Blood, took on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright, a classic and haunting Australian thriller. The film follows a teacher who arrives in an outback town for what should have been one night and loses himself in alcoho...
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Metascore: 85 - Runtime: 76 minutes Lightly based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent, this Hitchcock film follows a London woman, played by Sylvia Sidney, who discovers her husband, played by Oscar Homolka, is secretly an agent for a terrorist group. Quentin Tarantino later used a scene from the film in his acc...
- Director: Ingmar Bergman - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 85 minutes This iconic Swedish film is largely considered Ingmar Bergman's opus. It centers on young nurse Alma, played by Bibi Andersson, who cares for a renowned stage actress, played by Liv Ullmann, who has abruptly stopped speaking. After the two retreat to a remote seaside cottage, their se...
- Director: Jason Osder - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 88 minutes Let the Fire Burn recounts the deadly 1985 standoff between Philadelphia police and the Black activist group MOVE, which resulted in a helicopter dropping a bomb on the compound as city officials stood by. Unlike many documentaries, Jason Osder's film forgoes techniques such as talking h...
- Director: Edgar Wright - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 112 minutes Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright's energetic and stylish thriller follows a young getaway driver, played by Ansel Elgort, whose love of music helps him excel in the field. Eventually, as thrillers go, his love life and a failed heist threaten the precarious equilibrium he had ma...
- Director: Costa-Gavras - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 127 minutes Named after a popular Greek protest slogan, this political thriller fictionalizes the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis. It stands as one of the only movies in Oscar history to be nominated for both best picture and best foreign-language film.
- Director: Robert Altman - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 124 minutes Robert Altman, known for M.A.S.H. and Nashville, casts Tim Robbins in this Hollywood satire as a studio executive on the receiving end of death threats from an anonymous screenwriter whose script he rejected. Vincent D'Onofrio, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Ward, and Greta Scacchi appear in s...
- Director: Stephen Frears - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 110 minutes Stephen Frears, who also directed Philomena and Dangerous Liaisons, adapted Jim Thompson's 1960s novel into this 1990s neo-noir thriller. The Griftersfollows con man Roy Dillon (John Cusack) but the real stars are his estranged mother, played by Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening, h...
- Director: Steven Soderbergh - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 147 minutes Director Steven Soderbergh's sprawling, ambitious film weaves together three different stories of drugs and class into a huge ensemble story. Traffic was a critical and commercial hit in 2000, taking in $207 million at the box officeand winning four Academy Awards—Benicio Del Toro...
- Director: Johnnie To - Metascore: 86 - Runtime: 107 minutes Drug Warcenters on Captain Zhang, played by Sun Honglei, a police captain who partners with drug lord Timmy Choi, played by Louis Koo, in hopes of infiltrating a methamphetamine ring. However, as time goes on, Zhang questions whether Choi's accounts can be trusted. A South Korean remake ...
- 'The Departed' (2006) IMDb Rating: 8.5/10. A daring infiltration of South Boston’s Irish Mafia by sending an undercover officer is at the center of director Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.
- 'The Prestige' (2006) IMDb Rating: 8.5/10. Based on the eponymous 1995 novel by Christopher Priest, The Prestige follows the rivalry between two stage magicians, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale).
- 'Psycho' (1960) IMDb Rating: 8.5/10. Arguably Hitchcock's most iconic movie, Psycho revolves around an unfortunate encounter between a runaway embezzler, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), and a strange motel proprietor, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
- 'Léon: The Professional' (1994) IMDb Rating: 8.5/10. Director Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional is centered on the unique relationship that develops between twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando (Natalie Portman), who loses her parents in a questionable DEA raid, and the titular hitman, who takes her under his wing.
Feb 6, 2024 · From Hitchcock's Vertigo and Psycho to more modern classics like Parasite and Se7en, this is Collider's ranking of the best thriller movies ever made.
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