35 best thrillers, from which it is impossible to break away
Educational Program Cinema / / December 19, 2019
Layfhaker gathered iconic films of several generations of film directors from Alfred Hitchcock to Alex Garland. All of them received high marks from critics and audiences and firmly settled in many tops. Most of the paintings were nominated for the prestigious award.
1. Joker
Joker
- USA, Canada, 2019.
- Thriller, Drama, Crime.
- Duration: 122 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,9.
Shy Arthur Fleck suffers uncontrollable fits of laughter, moonlights as a clown, and dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. But it increasingly difficult to communicate with others, but in life problems accumulate. In the end, the hero begins to lose touch with reality and becomes a The Joker.
2. Fight club
Fight Club
- Thriller, Drama.
- USA, Germany, 1999.
- Duration: 131 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,8.
The hero spends his time on the job and unloved even really can not sleep. But everything changes after a meeting with soap salesman named Tyler Durden. He convinces the hero that the main and the only goal of life - self-destruction. Then friends open "Fight club"- a secret place where anyone can come to fight.
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3. Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs
- Thriller, detective.
- United States, 1990.
- Duration: 114 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,6.
FBI agent Clarice Starling tries to catch a serial killer, skinned with their victims. Help in the search for it is only capable of genius Hannibal Lecter - killer and cannibal in jail.
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4. Seven
Se7en
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- USA, 1995.
- Duration: 127 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,6.
Thriller in the style of neo-noir by David Fincher about the two teammates detective - old William Somerset, has already collected a pension, and young David Mills. Together they search for the maniac who chooses his victims based on the biblical sins.
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5. Rear Window
Rear Window
- United States, 1954.
- Detective thriller.
- Duration: 112 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,5.
legendary film Alfred Hitchcock dedicated to the photographer, who was literally locked the house after breaking a leg. Out of boredom, he watches from the window of the neighbors. And gradually it begins to seem that the apartment across from the murder occurred.
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6. Psycho
Psycho
- Thriller, detective, horror.
- United States, 1960.
- Duration: 109 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,5.
One of the most famous films of Alfred Hitchcock. Mary Crane, displeased her lover, escapes with a large sum of money. Along the way, she decides to have a rest at a motel run by a nice young man, Norman Bates. That's just she does not even know what will turn to her that night.
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7. The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- USA, Germany, 1995.
- Duration: 106 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,6.
One of the best pictures of Bryan Singer. The explosion on the ship carrying cocaine, several dozen people were injured. Police are trying to determine the cause of the incident and questioned the sole surviving witness - cripple nicknamed Chatterbox. And he talks about the large-scale plot, in the center of which stands the elusive mafia boss.
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8. Prestige
The Prestige
- Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy.
- US, UK, 2006.
- Duration: 125 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,5.
The plot revolves around a picture Christopher Nolan magicians, Alfred Borden and Robert Enzhier. Once they were friends, but competition and the love triangle turned them into bitter enemies. And now each of them is ready to not only disrupt the performance of the opponent, but also endanger the lives of his loved ones.
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9. The Departed
The Departed
- Thriller, Drama, Crime.
- USA, Hong Kong, 2006.
- Duration: 151 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,5.
A remake of the Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs" of Martin Scorsese He tells the story of two graduates of the police academy. One of them send to law enforcement agencies mafia, that he merged data. The other specifically falls under arrest to be his gang and inform the police.
10. Remember
Memento
- Thriller, a detective drama.
- United States, 2000.
- Duration: 113 min.
- IMDb: 8,5.
Leonard Shelby is looking for the murderer of his wife. Quest complicated by a rare form of amnesia: Leonard remembers everything that was before the murder but not able to say that it was 15 minutes ago.
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11. Oldboy
Oldeuboi
- Thriller, detective.
- South Korea, 2003.
- Duration: 120 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,4.
On businessman Dae-sous abduct unknown and placed in a private prison. 15 years he lived in solitary confinement, and learns about the events in the world only through the TV. After the unexpected release from prison for the sole purpose of the hero gets revenge.
12. Dizziness
Vertigo
- Thriller, Romance, Detective.
- USA, 1958.
- Duration: 128 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,3.
After the death of his partner Scotty Ferguson was out of work due to prolonged depression and a pathological fear of heights. He goes out of the profession, but an old friend hires the hero, that he followed his wife. Scottie rescues woman from suicide and realizes that in love with her.
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13. Taxi driver
Taxi Driver
- Thriller, Drama.
- USA, 1976.
- Duration: 114 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,3.
Great Robert DeNiro He plays a former Marine Travis Bickle. He suffers from chronic insomnia and therefore works as a night taxi driver. He meets many people and is constantly faced with the dirt and brutality. And then Binkley buys weapons and decides itself to purge the city from crime.
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14. Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense
- United States, 1999.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 107 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
Child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe met with an unusual boy, Cole, who sees ghosts people are not aware of his death. All believe that the child simply hallucinations, but Crowe realizes that it's really a way to connect with the other world.
15. Old Men
No Country for Old Men
- Thriller, Drama, Crime.
- United States, 2007.
- Duration: 122 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
In the film, the Coen brothers grim simple guy Lyuelin Moss finds a truck with corpses and heroin. And besides that, also a bag with two million dollars. He decides to keep the money, not even knowing that it is already stalking assassin Anton Chigurh.
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16. Shutter Island
Shutter Island
- United States, 2010.
- Psychological thriller, detective.
- Duration: 138 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
Bailiffs are sent to a psychiatric hospital on the island closed. They will have to understand the circumstances of the disappearance of a patient, but it seems that the hospital staff he is trying to hide the evidence. In addition to all of the island falls hurricane that cut off from the rest of the heroes of the world.
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17. Captive
Prisoners
- United States, 2013.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 153 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
Keller Dover's daughter goes for a walk with his girlfriend and disappears. The first suspect - idiot Alex - caught very quickly, but the police have enough evidence for an arrest. And then the girl's father decides to judge himself.
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18. Vanished
Gone Girl
- United States, 2014.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 149 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,1.
Life of Nick and Amy Dunne seemed quite rosy. But in the fifth wedding anniversary wife disappears. At first, everything looks like a kidnapping, but police are gradually begins to suspect her husband's murder.
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19. The night of the hunter
The Night of the Hunter
- United States, 1955.
- Thriller, Drama.
- Duration: 92 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
Young father of John and Pearl are arrested and sentenced to death for robbery and murder of two people. In prison, he talks about the hidden money cellmate. And he decides to marry a widow who was executed in order to get to the cache. In fact, about the whereabouts of the money only know the children.
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20. Black Swan
Black Swan
- United States, 2010.
- Drama, thriller.
- Duration: 103 minutes.
- IMDb: 8,0.
stunning director Darren Aronofsky tells the story of the ballerina Nina Sayers, has recently become a prima ballerina of the theater. The only problem is that it lacks confidence and looseness. And before the staging of "Swan Lake" in the company and there is more of her rival.
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21. Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
- United States, 2001.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 147 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,9.
Surviving after the accident, the heroine loses her memory. She accidentally wanders into a house aspiring actress Betty, who decides to help her remember the past. The girls come together, and what is happening around is becoming more surreal.
22. Stringer
Nightcrawler
- United States, 2014.
- Thriller, Drama, Crime.
- Duration: 118 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,9.
Former thief Louis Bloom can not find a job. Once he sees the film crew arrives at the scene of an accident, and it inspires the hero to become a reporter. But in the pursuit he may cross the line of what is permitted for the hot scenes.
23. Misery
Misery
- United States, 1990.
- Horror, Thriller, drama.
- Duration: 107 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,8.
Popular writer is in the house of a woman who claims that saved him from death. Quite by accident, she is a big fan of his.
24. The game
The Game
- United States, 1997.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 129 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,8.
Rich banker Nicholas Van Orton suffers from depression and loneliness. In order to somehow diversify their everyday life, he decides to take part in a mysterious game. Her conditions are not clear, and the life of Nicholas soon turns into a test series.
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25. Primal fear
Primal Fear
- United States, 1996.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 130 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,7.
Near the site of the assassination of Archbishop discover a frightened young boy. He denies all the charges, and it is taken to protect the attorney Martin Vail, relying on loud process to strengthen its reputation. The situation is complicated and that the prosecutor acts ex-lover Vail, and the defendant noticeable personality disorder.
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26. Driver
el Maquinista
- USA, Spain, 2004.
- Thriller.
- Duration: 97 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,7.
Trevor Reznik, a year can not fall asleep. It turned into a scrag and difficult to distinguish reality from hallucinations. And then begin to affect vision to everyday events.
27. Zodiac
Zodiac
- United States, 2007.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 158 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,7
Maniac nicknamed the Zodiac after each murder leaves a message to journalists who have to get on his trail. Several employees of major newspapers decide to help the police to clarify the identity of the offender.
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28. Operation "Argo"
Argo
- United States, 2012.
- Thriller, drama, biography.
- Duration: 120 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,7.
Iranian Islamists seized the US Embassy in Tehran and the taking hostage 52 Americans. Fugitive manages to hide in the house of the ambassador of Canada. And now a CIA agent trying to think through a plan to evacuate them. As a result, there is a completely crazy idea: to disguise the removal of employees for the shooting of the film "Argo."
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29. of the car
ex Machina
- United Kingdom, 2014.
- Fiction, thriller, drama.
- Duration: 108 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,7.
Directorial debut of Alex Garland. Eccentric billionaire invites young programmer in his mansion. That should help with the Turing test to check the thought process of a new robot. Here are just a machine looks like a seductive young woman.
30. I'm over it!
Falling Down
- USA, France, UK, 1992.
- Thriller, Drama, Crime.
- Duration: 113 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,6.
The life of William continuous failure: he was expelled from work, forbidden to meet with her daughter. Stuck in traffic on a hot day, he breaks down and arranges massacre in a nearby store. And now William can not stop too many things piled up inside.
31. American Psycho
american Psycho
- USA, Canada, 2000.
- Drama, thriller.
- Duration: 101 min.
- IMDb: 7,6.
Patrick Bateman looks perfect: he is energetic, caring for themselves, politely communicate with people. But one day he meets a homeless person on the street and kills him. Patrick crime awakens latent passion for violence.
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32. Partner in crime
Collateral
- United States, 2004.
- Thriller, Drama.
- Duration: 120 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,5.
In the car to the taxi driver gets a strange man. He wants to go round the five places where he needs to fulfill urgent orders. Soon it becomes clear that the customer - a hired killer. But because of the risk of his own life, the driver has to be his assistant.
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33. The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley
- United States, 1999.
- Thriller, Drama.
- Duration: 139 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,4.
Young and purposeful Tom Ripley hires one of the richest men in America.. The customer asks the young man to go to Italy and convince his son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom quickly enters into the confidence of the young man, but too interested in a life of luxury and decided to take the place Dickie.
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34. Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
- United Kingdom, United States, 1999.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 159 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,4.
In family life, Bill and Alice Harford long gone passion. Bogged down in boredom and jealousy, they decide to realize their erotic fantasies on the side. But gradually the characters go too far.
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35. Insomnia
Insomnia
- USA, Canada, 2002.
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- Duration: 118 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,2.
After the accidental death of his partner Police Officer Will Dormer could not sleep. But despite that tries to uncover the intricate murder. However, things get more complicated when the criminal himself out on contact with the detective.
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