/\ Thats barking! Good pot boiler though. Schlesinger was busking it by the 90s.
Do the films have to be recent, if so I'm no help.
Not at all! Although some of my favourite thrillers are: The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Shutter Island (all post-1990), I'm always open to try golden oldies!
Breakdown with Kurt Russell is good, agree about Pacific Heights (tried to buy a reg2 DVD of this a while back with no luck). Se7en is brill obviously.
Oops, forgot - Arlington Road. Hope Davis is Nice - i watched The Weather Man last night for the first time and enjoyed it and i am not really a fan of Nicolas Cage.
Spartan. Similar to Taken but this time it's the president's daughter who has gone missing and it's up to special forces chap, Val Kilmer to get her back whatever the cost. As it's written and directed by David Mamet the script is a bit more complex than Taken with some twists and turns.
Another oldie -Charley Varrick. Walther Matthau plays a bank robber who gets into deep trouble when he robs a small town bank only to find it's got a lot more money than he expected... that's because The Mob were using it and they are none too pleased about having their money nicked.
I agree with the recommendations for Pacific Heights, Silence of the Lambs, Seven and A Perfect Getaway.
I would highly recommend two films with Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross - Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider. Both excellent crime thrillers, with lots of twists and turns and plenty of suspense.
You may also want to look at the following
The Usual Suspects, A Lonely Place To Die, The Bourne Trilogy, Outbreak, The Negotiator, The River Wild
The best I have seen in the last ten years is 'Hidden'.
It's in French, but don't let that put you off.
Another is the original verstion of '13 Tzameti'. Don't bother with the Hollywood remake, they toned it down for the US market. Don't read any reviews or even look on the box, it will be a huge spoil.. The less you know the better.
What an third? I quite like 'Timecrimes'. Another foreign language one, but you miss out a lot if you refuse for that reason.
All The President's Men might be worth watching too. It's the story of two journalists investigating the Watergate break-in that ended in the downfall of President Nixon.
State of Play isn't too bad either, not as good as the TV series it's based on though.
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Do the films have to be recent, if so I'm no help.
Not at all! Although some of my favourite thrillers are: The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Shutter Island (all post-1990), I'm always open to try golden oldies!
Thanks. I'll give that a go.
Zodiac
Copycat
Road Games
Cleanskin
Eden Lake
Orphan
Unthinkable
Also, a couple of older favourites of mine:
Ransom
Memento
The Day of the Jackal (avoid the remake, btw)
The Parallax View
Three Days of the Condor
No Way Out (best twist evah)
From the De Palma ouvre:
Obsession
Blow Out
Raising Cain
I liked that movie!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0971209/
I would highly recommend two films with Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross - Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider. Both excellent crime thrillers, with lots of twists and turns and plenty of suspense.
You may also want to look at the following
The Usual Suspects, A Lonely Place To Die, The Bourne Trilogy, Outbreak, The Negotiator, The River Wild
Another older good thriller is 'The Odessa File' starring Jon Voight.
Also, 'The Brave One', despite a ridiculously hackneyed ending, is also recommended.
It's in French, but don't let that put you off.
Another is the original verstion of '13 Tzameti'. Don't bother with the Hollywood remake, they toned it down for the US market. Don't read any reviews or even look on the box, it will be a huge spoil.. The less you know the better.
What an third? I quite like 'Timecrimes'. Another foreign language one, but you miss out a lot if you refuse for that reason.
State of Play isn't too bad either, not as good as the TV series it's based on though.
Ronin with Robert DeNiro and Jean Reno