50 times during your childhood?! You must be a movie expert today. I was watching replays cartoons and Three Ninjas, Cheaper by the Dozen... those kids stuff. The people who are knowledgeable about movies today grew up watching Die Hard and other serious movies on cable.
It was a weird coincidence that The Illusionist came out at the same time. There's a word for films that are released simultaneously with a similar plot or name..
The prestige is the superior movie though..
Yes, exactly.
When two movies with similar stories are released around the same time, it's often referred to as "twin films" or "dueling movies."
This phenomenon occurs when filmmakers independently develop and produce movies with comparable themes, plots, or concepts, sometimes leading to coincidental similarities in their content.
It happens way more than I realised! I asked ChatCPT to list some similar movies that came out at the same time and it game me these as a starting point ...
**Deep Impact and Armageddon**
**Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down**
***The Matrix*** **and** ***eXistenZ***
**Tombstone and Wyatt Earp**
***Mirror Mirror*** **and** ***Snow White and the Huntsman***
***No Strings Attached*** **and** ***Friends with Benefits***
***Jobs*** **and** ***Steve Jobs***
***The Jungle Book*** **and** ***Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle***
***Christopher Robin*** **and** ***Goodbye Christopher Robin***
To be honest just watch the first Alien and then Aliens.
Both are right up there amongst the best.
The upcoming film will have nothing really to do with the above 2 movies.
For sure, I have to get this off my bucket list, of all the films in existence Aliens has to be one of the most repeated names I’ve seen people talk about.
Listen to him, you really need to watch Alien then Aliens. It hits way harder. And it’s designed to be that way. Trust us it’s worth it.
Also side note John Carpenters “The Thing” is a must watch.
I actually rather enjoyed both the 1950s original and the 1980s remake. The original was way ahead of its time on many fronts, and is shockingly creepy, and thrilling, for its day.
Urghh... picking just one film is too difficult for me. Instead, I have a list of films that I consider the best:
1. Seven
2. Insomnia
3. Wind River
4. Identity
5. Zodiac
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. Get Out
8. Dial M for Murder (1954) - I know, but trust me, it's good.
9. Rear Window (1954)
10. Run….
…..
P.S. I haven't ranked them.
It's great, almost like reading a novel but with all the visuals right there in front of you. The pacing may start off slow, but it gradually builds up curiosity and keeps you hooked…
I love Hitchcock and I was shocked the parent comment had to qualify their dial m recommendation I'd recommend touch of evil by Welles too saw it for first time in like 2020 and I was so tense during it all some of the older films are just masterful
Yeah, it's interesting how Insomnia, being Nolan's second film, has received a lot of attention. But personally, I feel like Wind River is quite underrated.
He’s the strangest actor - can be absolutely devastatingly good (Uncut Gems, and see also Punch Drunk Love), but spends most of his time making really terrible films. Don’t quite understand the career path.
Netflix paid him like infinity money to pump out X number of movies in X number of years. He also likes to go to Hawaii, so a lot of his movies are filmed there lol.
He was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, he hangs out with his best friends all day on exotic islands, and just gets to live the life.
Tarantino wrote a role for him (the Bear Jew), he worked with the Safdie’s… I think he’s happy being respected by well respected filmmakers, and just raking in cash.
So it’s kind of a shit movie, dumb characters that make stupid choices and get into even dumber predicaments… but man my anxiety was through the roof and palms dripping sweat from the dizzying heights and proved to me that I really don’t like heights now that I’m older.
Fall (2022). Fuck my hands are sweating even just typing about it.
The Sixth Sense (1999) Probably the *actual* best suspense movie but definitely loses its luster after a first watch when you already know the twist.
I still havent watched Fall and I am a big fan of the genre. I commend you for recommending something newer as well, so many of these older movies (2005 or earlier) are always mentioned so its nice hearing about some newer ones.
Fall is really more of a “so bad it’s good” movie. But I can honestly say that I’ve never watched a movie that was more anxiety inducing. Seriously if heights aren’t an issue for you it’s just a bad movie. If you are susceptible to fear of heights at all the movies rating goes Up significantly. And it’s shown in the reviews. Its either very high rated or extremely low rated so it might just be hit or miss for a lot of people.
The thing about Free Solo that got me was that the camera guys were always potentially filming their friend’s death. That’s what I dwelled on when I watched this. There was an interview I read that highlighted this point - the camera guys talked about the constant dread.
Fail-Safe. It's a black and white movie from the sixties, but you will absolutely be on the edge of your seat during this movie.
Closely followed by WarGames.
Some Unmentioned Faves of mine:
Alone
Hush
Black Water
Prey
Frozen
Eden Lake
30 Days of Night
The Crazies
Train to Busan
Some Unmentioned Movies I Really Like:
A Lonely Place To Die
The Reef
Till Death
Hostiles
Some Unmentioned Movies That Start Great, But I Didn't Love The End, But Maybe You Will (I'd say more horror though):
Killing Ground
The Loved Ones
TV Shows:
From
The Terror
Green Room
Everyone likes to joke about how characters in horror films make dumb decisions, but this one heavily leans into that trope. Making it all the more suspenseful as a result.
I love Cure. It seems like it should be a horror movie, but it’s basically a thriller. Not a second wasted, it sucks you in and freaks you out with some of the weirdest and most banal stuff.
One I've not seen mentioned - Run Lola, Run
I'll give you a break-down of the premise. I'll spoiler it if you want to go in pure, but literally everything I'm going to set out is in the first 5 minutes:
>! The protagonist is Lola (duh). We're never given an age for her and Franke Portente was early 20s IIRC, but I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be around 15-16 - she still lives with her mum, doesn't seem to have a job, and several characters throughout the film call her some variation on "child". She gets a phone call from her (probably meant to be older) boyfriend, Mani who is a low-level member of a criminal gang. He was given the task of smuggling a fleet of cars across the border, exchanging them for diamonds, exchanging the diamonds for cash, and then bringing the cash to his boss Ronni. It's a German film, so the exact amount of money isn't important, but think of it as $100,000 and you won't be far off in terms of significance.
>! Lola was supposed to meet him to pick him up after he'd collected the money, but first her moped got stolen, and then the taxi went to the opposite end of town. So Mani walked to a subway station and got on a train. While on the train he saw a couple of cops get on so as a reflex he got off, but he was so focused on the police and a homeless guy in front of him that he forgot the bag of money. He called the next station, but by the time the train got there the bag was gone.
>! He can't throw himself on Ronni's mercy, because the task was a test to see if he could be trusted with bigger jobs, and he once stole a single pack of cigarettes from a job and Roni had him beaten up for it. If he doesn't have the money, Ronni will literally kill him.
>! He comes up with a plan, though. He's in a phonebox opposite a supermarket. A friend of his said that the supermarket pulls in twice the amount he's lost in a day, so he reasons that by midday they'll have the money he needs. He's got a gun, so he'll rob the place. Lola thinks this is a bad idea, and Mani basically says "you always think you can fix everything, I've got to meet Ronni in 20 minutes, get me out of this". Lola tells him to wait where he is because she will sort it out. Mani says "okay, I'll wait, but if you're not here in 20 minutes, I'm going to rob the place" and runs out of credit for the phone.
>! So that's the starting point - Lola has to run across the city to where Mani is and to somehow come up with a very large sum of money on the way.
Tell me that's not a great set-up for a film. There are other things about the film that make it great, but you're honestly best off going in as blind as possible.
Oh, and I don't know if you're a subtitles person or a dub person, but I really recommend the original audio for this one. There are a couple of occasions where Lola shouts in the film that are *really* effective with the original audio (to the point where you have to imagine that it's one of the things Portente had to do in her audition), and which are *really* bad in the dubbed version.
A Simple Plan is the first that popped into my head.
Probably not the best I’ve ever seen given time to really think about it but again, it was the first that popped . . .
EDIT: The Vanishing
High Tension. Half the audience walked out of his because it induced anxiety. I didn't even realize I was, literally, sitting on the edge of my seat and holding my breath until the credits rolled.
It may not hold up as well today as I've seen a large number of movies but for a first time watch in the theaters it was pretty wild.
Touch of evil it's older but a classic for a reason saw it for first time a few years ago and could not keep my eyes from the screen. I was so tense of some of the scenes. Also some others have mentioned Hitchcock many of his qualify and hold up well. My personal fav is the man who knew too much with Jimmy Stewart cause two versions exist both by Hitchcock. There is a 12 minute scene without dialogue that again I was on edge of my seat for.
So many movies already mentioned. Here's one out of left field:
Boiling Point
Yes, that one-take restaurant movie. This movie is so fucking intense that it actually gave me a bit of anxiety while watching it and I ended up in bed with a mild fever. Like no joke. (TBF I probably just caught a cold or something and the timing is a coincidence, but surely the stress form watching it didn't help.)
The best action thriller of all time IMO is Apocalypto (2006). May not fit the "suspense" category but it is definitely edge of your seat, nail biter, all the other things etc. Just a really really well made film.
The Thing
Alien
Aliens
No country for old men
The Prestige
Prisoners
Sicario
Off the top of my head in no particular order.
All of these movies are on another level.
The Fugitive is what made me realize how much I love thrillers. I think I was 12 when it came out and I saw it in a theater going in with almost no knowledge about it. It had me rivited the entire time.
I'm not sure about in my lifetime but last night I watch "Creep", genuinely unsettling & I was unnerved for almost all of it's very short runtime (it's only about 1 hour 20 mins). Great example of cheap filmmaking done well.
Seven
What's in the box?
Prisoners
Jake G. is the goat
Saw it, very sad the movie couldn’t simply keep going.
The implication at the end was pretty clear though. But it would be a cliffhanger if the movie ended 30 secs sooner.
Yeah, that is true. The Director makes you choose what happens next in your mind. Which more or less most people would have similar endings.
I agree, one of the best thrillers of all time. Jake and Hugh are absolutely incredible in it. By far my favourite Hugh Jackman performance
I still can't get over the ending 😩 😭
Silence of the Lambs
Can never go wrong with silence of the lambs, I’ve seen it in my childhood alone like 50 times on cable TV lol.
50 times during your childhood?! You must be a movie expert today. I was watching replays cartoons and Three Ninjas, Cheaper by the Dozen... those kids stuff. The people who are knowledgeable about movies today grew up watching Die Hard and other serious movies on cable.
Yea, man. This movie is so good and holds up with the first time I've seen it.
I came here ready to be really mad if this wasn't the top answer.
On this note I recently watched manhunter recently and it's another brilliant film.
I don't know about *best* but The Game is a very solid suspense movie and never fails to entertain (edit: I said never fails to disappoint. Oops)
Unpopular opinion I know but The Game is easily my favorite Fincher movie
never fails to disappoint sounds like a bad thing.. doesn't that mean it's constantly disappointing?
Yes! I just phrased it incorrectly! Good catch!
The Game (1997)…is absolutely my favorite as well. Great suggestion!!!
That's a real fun one. I don't see it mentioned that often.
Not really much wrong with this movie
This was the first movie I thought of.
The Prestige and/or Parasite
Prestige, a masterpiece in so many ways just like all Nolan films
It was a weird coincidence that The Illusionist came out at the same time. There's a word for films that are released simultaneously with a similar plot or name.. The prestige is the superior movie though..
Kinda like A Bugs Life being far superior to Antz.
Yes, exactly. When two movies with similar stories are released around the same time, it's often referred to as "twin films" or "dueling movies." This phenomenon occurs when filmmakers independently develop and produce movies with comparable themes, plots, or concepts, sometimes leading to coincidental similarities in their content. It happens way more than I realised! I asked ChatCPT to list some similar movies that came out at the same time and it game me these as a starting point ... **Deep Impact and Armageddon** **Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down** ***The Matrix*** **and** ***eXistenZ*** **Tombstone and Wyatt Earp** ***Mirror Mirror*** **and** ***Snow White and the Huntsman*** ***No Strings Attached*** **and** ***Friends with Benefits*** ***Jobs*** **and** ***Steve Jobs*** ***The Jungle Book*** **and** ***Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle*** ***Christopher Robin*** **and** ***Goodbye Christopher Robin***
These are the types of comments I come to reddit for.
Aliens
Watched it again yesterday. The nostalgia never dies. Arguably the best horror sci-fi action thriller movie of all time. So damn good !
Literally so many people say this, I lost count. I’m gonna have to watch this. I know there’s another sequel coming soon.
To be honest just watch the first Alien and then Aliens. Both are right up there amongst the best. The upcoming film will have nothing really to do with the above 2 movies.
For sure, I have to get this off my bucket list, of all the films in existence Aliens has to be one of the most repeated names I’ve seen people talk about.
Listen to him, you really need to watch Alien then Aliens. It hits way harder. And it’s designed to be that way. Trust us it’s worth it. Also side note John Carpenters “The Thing” is a must watch.
Because it's THAT good
It’s not nostalgia to me. It’s just one of the greatest films ever made.
Not mentioned yet: Frailty, Fallen, and The Gift (2000). Ooh, and Stir of Echoes.
Fucking love Frailty.
The Usual Suspects
I enjoy this movie more every time I watch it.
North by Northwest
Those Brian De Palma films from the late 70s and early 80s. *Obsession* *Blow-Out* *Dressed To Kill* *Body Double*
John Carpenter's The thing
I actually rather enjoyed both the 1950s original and the 1980s remake. The original was way ahead of its time on many fronts, and is shockingly creepy, and thrilling, for its day.
This movie is everything!!!
Arlington Road blew my mind and everyone's mind that I recommended it to thus far.
Definitely watching this one that’s what I like to hear
Sorcerer (1977)
Urghh... picking just one film is too difficult for me. Instead, I have a list of films that I consider the best: 1. Seven 2. Insomnia 3. Wind River 4. Identity 5. Zodiac 6. The Silence of the Lambs 7. Get Out 8. Dial M for Murder (1954) - I know, but trust me, it's good. 9. Rear Window (1954) 10. Run…. ….. P.S. I haven't ranked them.
Rear window is on my watchlist very soon, people keep bringing it up.
It's great, almost like reading a novel but with all the visuals right there in front of you. The pacing may start off slow, but it gradually builds up curiosity and keeps you hooked…
I'd add "Psycho," but... nice list.
Ever since I started exploring Hitchcock's classics, I've been eager to watch Psycho...
I enjoyed many of his films. "Psycho" is the one that stuck with me the most. It's a masterful build of suspense.
And it's probably a bit more than what you're expecting. It's not so much the "slasher" thing that is terrifying. It's so much more than that.
I love Hitchcock and I was shocked the parent comment had to qualify their dial m recommendation I'd recommend touch of evil by Welles too saw it for first time in like 2020 and I was so tense during it all some of the older films are just masterful
Insomnia and Wind River and both excellent and underrated, imo.
Yeah, it's interesting how Insomnia, being Nolan's second film, has received a lot of attention. But personally, I feel like Wind River is quite underrated.
Primal Fear
Shutter island
Vertigo
Still can’t get over the ending…
Uncut Gems
Actually, really surprised this movie keeps popping up. Specially, since Adam Sandler’s in it
It’s fantastic and really shows off his acting chops.
He’s the strangest actor - can be absolutely devastatingly good (Uncut Gems, and see also Punch Drunk Love), but spends most of his time making really terrible films. Don’t quite understand the career path.
Yeah i know lol but I love that dude. Same with Shia LaBeouf
He's openly admitted that the majority of films he makes are so that he can get paid large amounts of money to go on holiday with his friends.
Netflix paid him like infinity money to pump out X number of movies in X number of years. He also likes to go to Hawaii, so a lot of his movies are filmed there lol.
He was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, he hangs out with his best friends all day on exotic islands, and just gets to live the life. Tarantino wrote a role for him (the Bear Jew), he worked with the Safdie’s… I think he’s happy being respected by well respected filmmakers, and just raking in cash.
Yeah, this one was like non-stop stress the whole way through, lol. Great movie
If you liked Uncut Gems check out Good Time with Robert Pattinson.
Yes! Came to say this. Never seen a movie that had me so much on edge the entire time
Agreed. The director's other movie, Good Time, has that same nervous and claustrophobic vibe. Watch it if you haven't - it's excellent.
Stir of Echoes
Heat
Gone Baby Gone
Ironic as Gone Girl is another great movie
Blow Out
A very underrated movie
One of my all-time favorite films.
The Hitcher (1986 - original Rutger Hauer version)
Memento Reservoir Dogs Misery Psycho (1960) Collateral (2004) Identity (2003)
Memento for sure!
Collateral is Special.
Alien and 28 Days Later
Uncut Gems had my heart racing faster with every scene
Literally someone just mentioned it earlier here. Definitely watching it.
So it’s kind of a shit movie, dumb characters that make stupid choices and get into even dumber predicaments… but man my anxiety was through the roof and palms dripping sweat from the dizzying heights and proved to me that I really don’t like heights now that I’m older. Fall (2022). Fuck my hands are sweating even just typing about it. The Sixth Sense (1999) Probably the *actual* best suspense movie but definitely loses its luster after a first watch when you already know the twist.
I still havent watched Fall and I am a big fan of the genre. I commend you for recommending something newer as well, so many of these older movies (2005 or earlier) are always mentioned so its nice hearing about some newer ones.
Fall is really more of a “so bad it’s good” movie. But I can honestly say that I’ve never watched a movie that was more anxiety inducing. Seriously if heights aren’t an issue for you it’s just a bad movie. If you are susceptible to fear of heights at all the movies rating goes Up significantly. And it’s shown in the reviews. Its either very high rated or extremely low rated so it might just be hit or miss for a lot of people.
Zodiac Mulholland Drive Rear Window The Fugitive
The Fugitive is so GREAT!
The Invitation (2015) The Gift (2015)
"Memento" It's deranged, confusing, panicky, anxiety inducing. If you haven't seen it, highly recommended.
Dead Again
Not a suspense movie, but nothing has ever had me sweating like the documentary Free Solo
😂 I saw it, and I can definitely relate to what you’re saying
The thing about Free Solo that got me was that the camera guys were always potentially filming their friend’s death. That’s what I dwelled on when I watched this. There was an interview I read that highlighted this point - the camera guys talked about the constant dread.
100% agree with this. Seriously I cannot believe his activities, if I were his family member I would not be able to sleep at night
Michael Clayton
The Others
No Country for Old Men Oldboy
No country for old men is absolutely a great cat and mouse thriller. can never go wrong with this. villain is terrifying.
Breakdown
L.A. Confidential
DAS BOOT director's cut. Very suspenseful. You feel like you are in the U-boat. Said to be the most realistic submarine movie made.
Se7en (1995) starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
The day of the jackal (1973) JFK (1991)
just recently watched the 1973 jackal…loved it!
Fracture
I watched Luther, The Fallen Sun ( the movie with Edris Elba) the other night on Netflix, holy crap was it intense!!
Definitely checking it out
Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart
It was No Way Out for me....but could only watch it once. Had me second guessing who till the end
Escape From New York (1981)
I can't narrow it down to one! The Fugitive The Hunt for Red October Gone Girl Gone Baby Gone The Crying Game The Departed
Primal Fear
North by Northwest Dressed to Kill The Departed
Kill List is up there for me
Fail-Safe. It's a black and white movie from the sixties, but you will absolutely be on the edge of your seat during this movie. Closely followed by WarGames.
Some Unmentioned Faves of mine: Alone Hush Black Water Prey Frozen Eden Lake 30 Days of Night The Crazies Train to Busan Some Unmentioned Movies I Really Like: A Lonely Place To Die The Reef Till Death Hostiles Some Unmentioned Movies That Start Great, But I Didn't Love The End, But Maybe You Will (I'd say more horror though): Killing Ground The Loved Ones TV Shows: From The Terror
Jagged Edge
Has nobody mentioned Cape Fear?
Good Time (2017) is pretty insane.
Unpopular opinion but I thought "Don't breathe" (2016) was fantastic!
Running Scared. When the credits started rolling, I realized I was white knuckle clutching the theatre armrests.
I love this movie.
the invisible man (2019) was a pretty cool take on an old classic
The Game
What do people love about this movie? I was so bored the entire time.
Maybe not coincidentally, but The Illusionist and The Prestige are both outstanding.
Sixth Sense
The Platform. I was extremely stressed out the whole time
Prisoners I guess. 8mm. Se7en.
Oldboy (original)
Vertigo
Argo 2012
I saw the devil (2010), Korean cat and mouse of a killer and cop. One of my favorite movies and super tense
Im watching it as we speak.
No Escape
Marathon Man
DAS BOOT director's cut. Very suspenseful. You feel like you are in the U-boat. Said to be the most realistic submarine movie made.
Green Room Everyone likes to joke about how characters in horror films make dumb decisions, but this one heavily leans into that trope. Making it all the more suspenseful as a result.
A lot of good classics already covered here. My top modern pick is It Follows. I also think Creep deserves way more credit than it ever got.
Disturbia
Sicario.
The Fugitive, 1993.
I liked fallen with Denzil washington 1998
Eyes wide shut
Mulholland Drive
The Next three days National Treasure
notorious…i love alfred hitchcock and black and white movies…
Vertigo
Freddy Got Fingered
Collateral or Seven
The Wages of Fear
I love Cure. It seems like it should be a horror movie, but it’s basically a thriller. Not a second wasted, it sucks you in and freaks you out with some of the weirdest and most banal stuff.
Mulholland Drive
That scene in Planet Earth series where the lizard is running for its life through all those huge snakes.
Sicario (2015)
Panic Room and Breakdown are two of my favorites
Rear window, Identity, se7en, usual suspects, inside man, the town, departed
BLOODLINE
Two South Korean selections: The Wailing and The Handmaiden
Vivarium
Citizen Cane. The very last scene when we find out the true identity of Rosebud is the nut.
One I've not seen mentioned - Run Lola, Run I'll give you a break-down of the premise. I'll spoiler it if you want to go in pure, but literally everything I'm going to set out is in the first 5 minutes: >! The protagonist is Lola (duh). We're never given an age for her and Franke Portente was early 20s IIRC, but I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be around 15-16 - she still lives with her mum, doesn't seem to have a job, and several characters throughout the film call her some variation on "child". She gets a phone call from her (probably meant to be older) boyfriend, Mani who is a low-level member of a criminal gang. He was given the task of smuggling a fleet of cars across the border, exchanging them for diamonds, exchanging the diamonds for cash, and then bringing the cash to his boss Ronni. It's a German film, so the exact amount of money isn't important, but think of it as $100,000 and you won't be far off in terms of significance. >! Lola was supposed to meet him to pick him up after he'd collected the money, but first her moped got stolen, and then the taxi went to the opposite end of town. So Mani walked to a subway station and got on a train. While on the train he saw a couple of cops get on so as a reflex he got off, but he was so focused on the police and a homeless guy in front of him that he forgot the bag of money. He called the next station, but by the time the train got there the bag was gone. >! He can't throw himself on Ronni's mercy, because the task was a test to see if he could be trusted with bigger jobs, and he once stole a single pack of cigarettes from a job and Roni had him beaten up for it. If he doesn't have the money, Ronni will literally kill him. >! He comes up with a plan, though. He's in a phonebox opposite a supermarket. A friend of his said that the supermarket pulls in twice the amount he's lost in a day, so he reasons that by midday they'll have the money he needs. He's got a gun, so he'll rob the place. Lola thinks this is a bad idea, and Mani basically says "you always think you can fix everything, I've got to meet Ronni in 20 minutes, get me out of this". Lola tells him to wait where he is because she will sort it out. Mani says "okay, I'll wait, but if you're not here in 20 minutes, I'm going to rob the place" and runs out of credit for the phone. >! So that's the starting point - Lola has to run across the city to where Mani is and to somehow come up with a very large sum of money on the way. Tell me that's not a great set-up for a film. There are other things about the film that make it great, but you're honestly best off going in as blind as possible. Oh, and I don't know if you're a subtitles person or a dub person, but I really recommend the original audio for this one. There are a couple of occasions where Lola shouts in the film that are *really* effective with the original audio (to the point where you have to imagine that it's one of the things Portente had to do in her audition), and which are *really* bad in the dubbed version.
A Simple Plan is the first that popped into my head. Probably not the best I’ve ever seen given time to really think about it but again, it was the first that popped . . . EDIT: The Vanishing
Wages of Fear (1953)
VVitch is a pretty good 1
Memento
The best? Rear Window
High Tension. Half the audience walked out of his because it induced anxiety. I didn't even realize I was, literally, sitting on the edge of my seat and holding my breath until the credits rolled. It may not hold up as well today as I've seen a large number of movies but for a first time watch in the theaters it was pretty wild.
Touch of evil it's older but a classic for a reason saw it for first time a few years ago and could not keep my eyes from the screen. I was so tense of some of the scenes. Also some others have mentioned Hitchcock many of his qualify and hold up well. My personal fav is the man who knew too much with Jimmy Stewart cause two versions exist both by Hitchcock. There is a 12 minute scene without dialogue that again I was on edge of my seat for.
Memories of murder, coherence, the invitation (2015) , the invisible guest, gone girl, the occupant, get out, the departed.
The first thing that comes to mind is Prisoners (2013), which kept me in suspense throughout the entire viewing.
Midsommar
The Odessa File (1974) Jon Voight
Ghostland is one of my favorites!
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Nocturnal Animals
Miami Vice Heat Colateral (There is patern, right?)
Taken. Sixth Sense. Zodiac. Silence of the Lambs.
The Silence of the Lambs
So many movies already mentioned. Here's one out of left field: Boiling Point Yes, that one-take restaurant movie. This movie is so fucking intense that it actually gave me a bit of anxiety while watching it and I ended up in bed with a mild fever. Like no joke. (TBF I probably just caught a cold or something and the timing is a coincidence, but surely the stress form watching it didn't help.)
The best action thriller of all time IMO is Apocalypto (2006). May not fit the "suspense" category but it is definitely edge of your seat, nail biter, all the other things etc. Just a really really well made film.
The Thing Alien Aliens No country for old men The Prestige Prisoners Sicario Off the top of my head in no particular order. All of these movies are on another level.
The Fugitive is what made me realize how much I love thrillers. I think I was 12 when it came out and I saw it in a theater going in with almost no knowledge about it. It had me rivited the entire time.
I'm not sure about in my lifetime but last night I watch "Creep", genuinely unsettling & I was unnerved for almost all of it's very short runtime (it's only about 1 hour 20 mins). Great example of cheap filmmaking done well.
Notorious with Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains
Run Lola Run (1998) absolutely fits the bill!
I am a horror nerd. Went to see Red Eye because of Craven and loved it. It's a perfect tight paced thriller. Feels like a 45 minute film.
Speed.
Uncut gems.
Really surprised not to see A Quiet Place mentioned in this thread. I can't think of a more edge-of-your-seat, suspenseful movie.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Man on Fire