1990sTakashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate. Audition is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese horror-thriller film depicting a Tokyo widower who stages fake film auditions to…
1990sHideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching. Ringu is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, depicting a Tokyo television reporter investigating a…
1990sAn FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…
1970sA sorority house is terrorized by an unseen caller during Christmas break, in the proto-slasher that preceded Halloween by four years. Black Christmas is Bob Clark's 1974 Canadian horror film depicting a sorority house during Christmas break terrorized by an…
1960sHitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…
2000sKathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraq EOD drama. Won Best Picture, Best Director.
1980s
1960sKihachi Okamoto's 1966 nihilist samurai film. Tatsuya Nakadai as soulless killer.
2000sJonathan Glazer's 2000 British crime debut. Ben Kingsley terrifying as Don Logan.
1940sRaoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
1970sMichael Crichton's 1978 medical thriller. Genevieve Bujold investigates hospital coma conspiracy.
1950s1954 Edward Dmytryk courtroom drama with Humphrey Bogart as paranoid Captain Queeg. The strawberries, the ball bearings, the mutiny.
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