Have you run out of energy to watch Christmas movies? We get it, so we’ve put together a series of thrillers that will definitely tickle your nerves, from the first minute to the last minute.
“Silence of the Lambs” (1990)
Anthony Hopkins is simply amazing here – with just 16 minutes of screen time, it feels like you’re standing behind you for two hours. The film, about spy candidate Clarissa Starling, who pursues a serial killer and turns to Hannibal Lecter for help, won five Oscars in its time.
“Seven” (1995)
For the most sophisticated thriller fans. David Fincher’s cult work with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman centers on a seasoned detective and his enthusiastic partner investigating a series of sophisticated murders. You’ll definitely be one more week away from the final.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1999)
A relatively light thriller starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, who are still very young. At the center of the plot is a hero who takes another’s life and is ready for anything unexplored.
“Remember” (2000)
The second picture in the filmography of Christopher Nolan. The hero dresses expensively, drives a brand new car, but lives in cheap motels and pursues one goal – to find his wife’s killer. True, he suffers from rare amnesia and remembers everything before the murder, but does not remember what happened fifteen minutes ago.
“The Machinist” (2003)
Christian Bale lost over 30 pounds for this role and that’s great. The protagonist hasn’t slept for a year and has turned into a living skeleton, and it’s hard to separate reality from hallucinations.
“Match Point” (2005)
Woody Allen made a thriller. What? Yeah! The once famous tennis player is having a hard time and everything becomes more complicated when a woman enters his life. He is in love and is dating his friend.
“Deja Vu” (2006)
And this movie starring Denzel Washington will appeal to those who have a high regard for fantasy. The hero finds the opportunity to travel in time by investigating the conditions of the explosion on the ferry. He meets and falls in love with a woman who should have been killed just because it happened in the past.
“Prestige” (2006)
Christopher Nolan is back at work. Beautifully filmed in the spirit of a retro story with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale starring the illusionists, whose friendship rivalry eventually turns into a real war. What is at stake is the lives of the people around them and their own.
“The Departed” (2006)
In Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning film, which won four awards, two for Best Picture and Best Director, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson are about two of the police academy’s best graduates finding themselves on opposite sides of the barricades: one of them is a law enforcement officer. one agent mob and the other a “mole” embedded in the mob. And each considers it his duty to detect and destroy the enemy.
“Shutter Island” (2009)
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in a very cool detective thriller about two American bailiffs who travel to an island to investigate the disappearance of a patient at a clinic for the criminally insane. The ending will definitely surprise you!
“The Secret in Your Eyes” (2009)
Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscar Awards. Spanish project set in 1974 about a judicial officer who, with his two partners, takes on a high-profile case of rape and brutal murder.
“Out of Control” (2010)
A massive unmanned locomotive with a toxic payload lost control and swept everything in its path. And if it derails, then humanity cannot avoid a chemical catastrophe and all attempts to stop it are in vain. It stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.
“Prisoners” (2013)
The father of a missing six-year-old girl takes charge of the search when nothing remains but an old van parked in the street when the baby was last seen. How far can a desperate father go? Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis.
“String” (2013)
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One of Jake Gyllenhaal’s brightest roles. Here he played a man who, by chance, is a reporter, and morality is not an obstacle for him, so he is ready to do anything for the sake of material.
“Lost Girl” (2014)
Movie directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck. On the eve of the celebration of the fifth wedding anniversary, the main protagonist suddenly disappears and a series of clues remain in the house that will help uncover a struggle, blood and truth.
“The Maid” (2016)
The South Korean film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in the 1930s, the story is about a con man and his accomplice trying to cheat the fortunes of an influential Japanese woman. True, his plans have to be changed because of emotions.
“Under the Cover of the Night” (2016)
A twisted drama thriller starring Tom Ford as a woman with a life of luxury and a dark past, revealed when Amy Adams receives an unexpected package from her ex-husband with her new crush.
“Neon Demon” (2016)
It’s a small art house, but what if you like it too? Elle Fanning and Carl Glusman highlight modeling and popularity in the work of Nicolas Winding Refn, who gave us Drive.
“You were never here” (2017)
Joaquin Phoenix was a great actor even before the sensational “Joker”. Here he played a former special agent and a retired soldier tasked with searching for a missing girl. It copes with the task, but what is behind it?
“Split” (2017)
James McAvoy plays a maniac with multiple personality disorder (his character includes 23 other people). A mix of horror and suspense by M. Night Shyamalan.
“Good Times” (2017)
Best Robert Pattinson! This is a story about a bank robbery that didn’t go according to plan that claimed the Golden Branch at the Cannes Film Festival.
“The Passenger” (2018)
A light thriller starring Liam Neeson that also makes your head spin. At the center of the plot is an ordinary man who takes the same train to work every day and whose life is changed by chance. Now a few people’s lives depend on it.
“Joker” (2019)
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Todd Phillips (“The Hangover”) was a hit in the year it premiered, receiving the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and receiving 11 Oscar nominations. The reimagined story about Gotham’s main villain and his criminal path, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is made in the best traditions of a thriller: bleak, tense, and very psychological.
“Rebecca” (2020)
Classics are not the same for us. Starring Armie Hammer and Lily James, Netflix’s newest drama thriller follows a young newlywed who moves into her husband’s luxurious mansion. But what awaits him there is not family happiness, but the ubiquitous shadow of an evil servant and his deceased wife.
Source: People Talk
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