Favorite thrillers

[Abby Normal]

I love the (modern)period piece thrillers. These are my favorites:

The Raven(the latest one)
From Hell
Dracula (Coppola)
Pans Labyrinth
The Illusionist
Sleepy Hollow
Crimson Peak

I think they are all mini masterpieces and very entertaining!

Any others?

[Patrick S]

I love the (modern)period piece thrillers. These are my favorites:

The Raven(the latest one)
From Hell
Dracula (Coppola)
Pans Labyrinth
The Illusionist
Sleepy Hollow
Crimson Peak

I think they are all mini masterpieces and very entertaining!

Any others?

I liked the esthetics of "From Hell". I appreciated some of the detail involved in recreating crime scenes, etc. However, I was completely taken out of it by the "Royal Conspiracy" resolution, the portrayal of Abberline as a drug-addled bohemian of sorts, Heather Graham (who I otherwise adore) and her awful Irish accent (that came and went like Saucy Jack himself), and Robbie Coultrain.

I loved Sleepy Hollow. Very stylized. Quite entertaining. Plus it has Christopher Walken.

As far as thrillers go, I'm a Hitchcock man. I love "Rear Window", "Rope", "The Lady on the Train", "Marnie", "Vertigo". I also recently watched Scorcese's "Cape Fear" remake (shot in Hitchcockian style) and thought that was very well done and entertaining.

[StevenOwl]

As far as thrillers go, I'm a Hitchcock man. I love "Rear Window", "Rope", "The Lady on the Train", "Marnie", "Vertigo".

Hitchcock for me too. I also particularly love London thrillers like Night & the City, Pool of London, Sapphire etc.

[Mayerling]

Modern thrillers:

Vertigo
Rear Window
North By Northwest
[Come to think about it, these are from the 1950s - they're not so modern anymore - but then neither am I, since I was born in 1954)
Romancing the Stone (loved the crock)
The Blair Witch Project
The Night of the Hunter (Mitchum/Peck)
Charley Varick (Matthau/Baker/Vernon)
The Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra/Lansbury/Harvey/McGiver/Gregory)
The Window (Driscoll/Stewart/Kennedy)
Kansas City Confidential (Payne/Foster/Van Cleef/Elam/Brand)
The Narrow Margin (McGraw/Windsor)
The Narrow Margin (Hackman)
The Big Clock (Milland/Laughton)

Historical Thrillers

[Problem with these is you frequently know how they are going to end]

A Night to Remember [The supreme thriller tragedy. and best of the Titanic films, as it emphasizes what went wrong with the ship and voyage.]
Dragonwyck [Price/Tierney/Huston/Morgan]
The Tall Target [Powell/Menjou]
The Gunfighter [Peck/Mitchell/Homier]
Richard III (Olivier)
Tower of London (Rathbone/Karloff)
The Body Snatcher [Karloff/Lugosi/Daniell]
Bedlam [Karloff, Lee]
I Wake Up Screaming/Hot Spot (Cregar/Mature/Grable/Landis)
Hangover Square (Cregar/Sanders)
The Lodger (Cregar/Oberon/Sanders/Hardwicke)
Man in the Attick (Palance)
Rawhide (Power/Hayward/Elam)

In both groups there are others.

Jeff

[Abby Normal]

of course I love Hitchcock movies too! North by Northwest is my favorite.

Thanks for posting those other movies too-I have not heard of a lot of them-need to check them out!!

I love all the movies on my list, but one that a lot of people have never heard of is the Illusionist with Edward Norton in the title role and also my favorite actor Paul Giamatti as the inspector. Awesome flick!!

[Patrick S]

of course I love Hitchcock movies too! North by Northwest is my favorite.

Thanks for posting those other movies too-I have not heard of a lot of them-need to check them out!!

I love all the movies on my list, but one that a lot of people have never heard of is the Illusionist with Edward Norton in the title role and also my favorite actor Paul Giamatti as the inspector. Awesome flick!!

I own the illusionist. Paul Giamatti is great in that, your correct.