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Starring Brad PittEdward NortonHelena Bonham Carter
By David Fincher, 1999.
An insomnia-stricken corporate drone (Edward Norton) meets roguish rebel Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and together they form a cathartic but brutal underground society where men fight each other freely. But the line between reality and sleepless haze starts to really blur when propagandist Durden...
- The Sixth Sense
Starring Bruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni Collette
By M. Night Shyamalan, 1999.
Some kids have imaginary friends. Cole (Haley Joel Osment) does them one better: He lives in a world beyond imagination, filled with ghosts and madness. Bruce Willis is the empathic child psychiatrist who tries to heal the child, only to find that the poltergeists are not of this world and the...
- The Silence of the Lambs
Starring Anthony HopkinsJodie FosterScott Glenn
By Jonathan Demme, 1991.
In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a...
- Shutter Island
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley
By Martin Scorsese, 2010.
Director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio re-team again to adapt author Dennis Lehane's novel about Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), a United States marshal who searches for an escaped psychiatric patient on a mysterious island. Featuring an all-star cast, Scorcese's psychological thriller also stars...
- Memento
Starring Guy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe Pantoliano
By Christopher Nolan, 2000.
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife. To carry out his plan, Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of the photos to aid in his search and...
- The Usual Suspects
Starring Kevin SpaceyStephen BaldwinGabriel Byrne
By Bryan Singer, 1995.
When five unacquainted scalawags are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix with an underworld kingpin named Keyser Söze. Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen...
- No Country for Old Men
Starring Tommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh Brolin
By Ethan Coen, 2007.
A hunter (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in a Texas desert absconds with the cash. But brutal thief Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes looking for it, with a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) hot on his trail.
- Twelve Monkeys
Starring Joseph MelitoBruce WillisJon Seda
By Terry Gilliam, 1995.
In a future world devastated by a man-made disease, a convict (WIllis) is sent back in time to gather information about the super virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
- The Hurt Locker
Starring Jeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian Geraghty
By Kathryn Bigelow, 2008.
Kathryn Bigelow directs this gripping drama following one of the U.S. Army's elite EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) teams operating in the ferocious war zone of Iraq. As the squad identifies and dismantles improvised explosive devices and other bombs, they must also contend with the frayed nerves...
- Jaws
Starring Roy ScheiderRichard DreyfussRobert Shaw
By Steven Spielberg, 1975.
When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, a police chief (Roy Scheider), a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) and an oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) seek to destroy it. Director Steven Spielberg created the summer blockbuster boom with this white-knuckle...
- The Prestige
Starring Christian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett Johansson
By Christopher Nolan, 2006.
At the dawn of the 20th century, rival magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) endeavor to reveal each other's secrets. Obsessed by the escalating competition, the two illusionists begin to perform increasingly risky tricks, which soon turn deadly.
- The Fugitive
Starring Harrison FordTommy Lee JonesSela Ward
By Andrew Davis, 1993.
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) escapes custody after a ferocious train accident (one of the most thrilling wrecks ever filmed). While Kimble tries to find the true murderer, gung-ho U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-winning...
- Rosemary's Baby
Starring Mia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth Gordon
By Roman Polanski, 1968.
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in...
- Enemy of the State
Starring Lisa BonetJake BuseyGabriel Byrne
By Tony Scott, 1998.
Hotshot Washington lawyer Robert Dean (Will Smith) becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent (Jon Voight) sets out to recover the tape -- and destroy Dean.
- Natural Born Killers
Starring Woody HarrelsonJuliette LewisRobert Downey Jr.
By Oliver Stone, 1994.
Director Oliver Stone's stark satire of media and murder still generates controversy. Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, respectively) hit the road on an interstate killing spree that triggers a manhunt and garners amazing ratings for a tabloid TV star (Robert Downey Jr.)...
- True Romance
Starring Christian SlaterPatricia ArquetteBrad Pitt
By Tony Scott, 1993.
In this darkly comic web of crime, murder and mayhem from writer Quentin Tarantino and director Tony Scott, novice prostitute Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) and her lover, comic book store clerk Clarence Worley (Christian Slater), become a Bonnie and Clyde for the 1990s.
- Collateral
Starring Tom CruiseJamie FoxxJada Pinkett Smith
By Michael Mann, 2004.
Max (Oscar nominee Jamie Foxx) takes a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet, hoping to one day run his own business. Twelve years later, he's still driving the same cab and is about to have his craziest day on the job yet when he discovers that Vincent (Tom Cruise), who's just paid Max a handsome...
- Rear Window
Starring James StewartGrace KellyThelma Ritter
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1954.
As his broken leg heals, wheelchair-bound L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) becomes absorbed with the parade of life across the courtyard: A dancer, a lonely woman, a composer and a bedridden woman and her husband become like creatures in his voyeuristic zoo.
- Vertigo
Starring James StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel Geddes
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1958.
Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock 's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological...
- L.A. Confidential
Starring Kevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy Pearce
By Curtis Hanson, 1997.
Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour.
- The Bank Job
Starring Jason StathamSaffron BurrowsStephen Campbell Moore
By Roger Donaldson, 2008.
Based on actual events in 1971, this thriller tells the story of a car dealer (Jason Statham) who becomes involved in a London bank heist, only to find that the contents of the bank vault will draw him deeply and irrevocably into the city's criminal underbelly.
- Michael Clayton
Starring George ClooneyTom WilkinsonTilda Swinton
By Tony Gilroy, 2007.
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy delivers a finely tuned directorial debut with this dramatic thriller about burned-out corporate lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a man who's built his career on cleaning up other people's messes. When a guilt-ridden colleague (Tom Wilkinson) threatens the...
- North by Northwest
Starring Cary GrantEva Marie SaintJames Mason
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1959.
What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced that you were a spy? This classic from master director Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone else and is forced to go on the lam (helped along by Eva Marie Saint).
- Blue Velvet
Starring Dennis HopperIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlan
By David Lynch, 1986.
An innocent (Kyle MacLachlan) gets mixed up in a small-town murder mystery involving a kinky nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini) and a kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) with a penchant for snorting helium. One of the most bizarre (and critically acclaimed) movies of the 1980s, Blue Velvet inspired a...
- Chinatown
Starring Jack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn Huston
By Roman Polanski, 1974.
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's...
- The Maltese Falcon
Starring Humphrey BogartMary AstorGladys George
By John Huston, 1941.
Humphrey Bogart stars as private eye Sam Spade in this Oscar-nominated noir classic that finds the sultry Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor) seeking out protection from a man named Thursby. Spade's partner (Jerome Cowan) takes the case -- but he winds up dead, along with Thursby.
- The Crying Game
Starring Forest WhitakerMiranda Richardson
By Neil Jordan, 1992.
Remastered for this edition, Neil Jordan's acclaimed thriller centers on Fergus (Stephen Rae), who kidnaps British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) for the IRA, befriends his captive and promises to contact his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), should Jody die.
- The French Connection
Starring Gene HackmanFernando ReyRoy Scheider
By William Friedkin, 1971.
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman), a foul-mouthed, violent narcotics detective, pursues a suave French drug dealer (Fernando Rey) through New York City with Captain Ahab-like zeal. Director William Friedkin took the provocative stance that both the narcs and the smugglers use similar thuggish...
- Notorious
Starring Cary GrantIngrid BergmanLouis Calhern
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1946.
This top-notch Hitchcock espionage thriller builds to an incredibly suspenseful climax. Government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) to spy on her father's influential Nazi friends. As part of her cover, she marries ringleader Claude Rains, but finds she's...
- M
Starring Peter Lorre
By Fritz Lang, 1931.
German-American director Fritz Lang presents his first "talkie" -- and cinema's first serial killer -- in this 1931 classic. Plump pedophile Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), propelled by a compulsion he can't control, escapes the eye of the law -- but not the wrath of the Berlin underworld being blamed...
- The Manchurian Candidate
Starring Frank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet Leigh
By John Frankenheimer, 1962.
Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a Korean War hero with a lethal secret: He's been brainwashed by the communist Chinese. With one phone call, the Reds can transform Shaw into a deadly assassin -- unless fellow veteran Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) can stop them first! Some thrillers remain as...
- Strangers on a Train
Starring Farley GrangerRuth RomanRobert Walker
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1951.
When Bruno (Robert Walker) meets tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) aboard a train, he confesses he wants his rich father dead, prompting Guy to reveal that he wants to divorce his shrewish wife -- so Bruno suggests that they "trade" murders. Guy laughs off the suggestion at first … until he...
- Rope
Starring James StewartJohn DallFarley Granger
By Alfred Hitchcock, 1948.
James Stewart stars with Farley Granger and John Dall in a highly charged thriller inspired by the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder case. Granger and Dall are riveting as two friends who pride themselves on committing the "perfect murder" -- until their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly...
- Marathon Man
Starring Dustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy Scheider
By John Schlesinger, 1976.
After his CIA agent brother (Roy Scheider) is killed, graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself trapped in a deadly game with a Nazi fugitive (Laurence Oliver), a sadistic man who uses dental instruments as tools of torture. As Levy turns from pacifist to street-smart cynic...
- Double Indemnity
Starring Fred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. Robinson
By Billy Wilder, 1944.
Smitten insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) plots the perfect murder with femme fatale client Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): staging her husband's "accidental" death to collect double indemnity on his life insurance and absconding with the loot.
- Dressed to Kill
Starring Michael CaineAngie DickinsonNancy Allen
By Brian De Palma, 1980.
This Hitchcockian thriller manages to pay homage to the great director while being a pure showing for the talents of filmmaker Brian DePalma. A frustrated housewife (Angie Dickinson), her son (Keith Gordon) an escort (Nancy Allen), and a psychiatrist (Michael Caine) all figure prominently in the...
- The Third Man
Starring Joseph CottenAlida ValliOrson Welles
By Carol Reed, 1949.
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
- Diabolique
Starring Simone SignoretVera ClouzotPaul Meurisse
By Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955.
Henri-Georges Clouzot helmed this icy masterwork of homicide and Grand Guignol suspense. Clouzot's real-life wife, Véra, portrays Christina Delasalle, ailing spouse of the sadistic headmaster (Paul Meurisse) of a moldering private boarding school, and sexy Simone Signoret plays his manhandled...
- The Conversation
Starring Gene HackmanHarrison FordTeri Garr
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1974.
Gene Hackman set the standard for 1970s film acting with his portrayal of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert obsessed with his privacy. A past mistake -- and the fear that he may repeat it -- haunts Caul. The Conversation benefits from tremendous supporting performances (especially that of the late...
- The Night of the Hunter
Starring Robert MitchumShelley WintersLillian Gish
By Charles Laughton, 1955.
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton 's only film directing effort. It features a chilling performance from Robert Mitchum as Reverend Harry Powell, a villain whose self-chosen name belies his extreme evil.
