Even if all the college dorm posters turned you off, a haggard Edward Norton and flippant Brad Pitt are the perfect vessels for adding nuance to what amounts to a story about a mentally unstable terrorist. Naomi Watts plays an aspiring actress who befriends an amnesiac (Laura Harring).
She starts to encounter mysterious and supernatural occurrences that no one believes. Tom Cruise stars here as a police chief running a futuristic pre-crime unit that arrests murderers before they kill. That's the apt description Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) gets in Andrew Davis' '90s masterpiece. Arlington Road is an impressive mix of political thriller and psychological suspense which perhaps has more significance today than the time of its release due to the concentrated threat of terrorism that has been present since the 9/11 attacks. Not only did it create some of the best comedies, action and horror films, but thriller films as well. He comes to join forces with a police officer named Amelia (Jolie) after she expertly secures a crime scene on her own. The film also reinforces the age-old axiom to never, under any circumstances, trust a clown! In telling the story of the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who captured the public imagination by sending letters and puzzles to the Bay Area press, the famously meticulous director zeroes in on the cops, journalists, and amateur code-breakers who made identifying the criminal their life's work. #80sMovies #80sHorror #1980sTV #90sMovies #90sHorror #1990sTV #1980sMysteries #1990sMysteries #HardToFindMovies #HardToFindTVShows #PlayListsForTheObsessed Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email and subscribe here for our YouTube channel to get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. Luckily, the Oscar-winner is up to the task, grounding the occasional ludicrous twists with subtle emotional responses and a brittle sense of humor. The film takes audiences on a bender of a story as an investment banker if given a bizarre gift from his brother. This film centered around a heinous killer who used the seven deadly sins as his form of murder. There are musical interludes, sexual encounters, and loads of non sequiturs. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play rival magicians in 19th-century London, and while the idea of Batman facing off against Wolverine in top hats is certainly the draw, you'll keep coming back to marvel at the art direction, the plotting, and the pure joy of getting fooled again.
His confident ineptitude is at times comical -- after breaking his brother out of a police-secured hospital like one of Danny Ocean's 11, he realizes, whoops, the bandaged guy isn't his brother -- but the commitment to moral ambiguity by both the Safdies and their leading man amounts to the masochistic pleasure of sucking on a sour candy for just a second too long. If you're thinking this premise sounds a little Black Mirror-ish, that's because it is. David Cronenberg's Darwinistic reaction to our violent world works more like a thriller in reverse.
It starred Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in the lead roles. With every grimace, furrowed brow, and anguished sob, he brings you into the tortured psyche of Edward Daniels, a man who cannot escape his past no matter how hard he tries. Critics called Jacob's Ladder an engrossing experience, filled with turmoil and despair, that tackles the question of death. Eerily prescient and filled with near-miss tension, Tony Scott's film occasionally relies on cheesy coincidences and the kinds of conversations that only happen in movies, but there's no denying the power of Big Brother as a villain when you want to go all in on a political thriller. In his haunted adaptation of Dennis Lehane's pulpy gothic novel, director Martin Scorsese uses visceral horror imagery to convey despair.
If movies from the '80s and '90s taught us anything, it's that sex could be dangerous. Freeway is one of the most darkly comic films on this list; its violence is extreme, but to the extent that it is cartoonish, the characters are vulgar but the majority are most definitely caricatures.
The story is a little wonky and more than a little messy, but that's true to the reality of life, especially when you're at the mercy of forces you don't understand. Se7en is on the top of many horror fans' list of must-watch movies. Fortunately, he really is something like the offspring of Carmen Sandiego and MacGyver. The Constant Gardener is no different, though espionage in this case is a vast corporate pharmaceutical conspiracy that exploits and kills poor Africans, and the "spy" is a muted Ralph Fiennes as Justin, a low-level diplomat turned vigilante investigator of his wife's murder.