
My favourite thriller/horror movies
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1.
Alien
(1979)
The crew of a commercial deep space mining ship, investigating a suspected S.O.S., lands on a distant planet and discovers a nest of strange eggs. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
2.
Aliens
(1986)
The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
3.
Alien³
(1992)
Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet. (114 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
4.
Predator
(1987)
A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior. (107 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan
5.
The Descent
(2005)
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. (99 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
6.
Carrie
(1976)
A young, abused and timid 17-year-old girl discovers she has telekinesis, and gets pushed to the limit on the night of her school's prom by a humiliating prank. (98 mins.)
Director: Brian De Palma
7.
The Ring
(2002)
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it. (115 mins.)
Director: Gore Verbinski
8.
Dark Water
(2005)
A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident. (105 mins.)
Director: Walter Salles
9.
The Sixth Sense
(1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
10.
Hush
(1998)
Helen is the young girlfriend of good-looking Jackson Baring. When Helen gets pregnant and marries Jackson... (96 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Darby
11.
The Thing
(2011)
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. (103 mins.)
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
12.
Case 39
(2009)
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected. (109 mins.)
Director: Christian Alvart
13.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
(2009)
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money. (100 mins.)
Director: J Blakeson
14.
Orphan
(2009)
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. (123 mins.)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
15.
Anguish
(1987)
A film-within-a-film thriller about two teen girls among a small group of people whom are terrorized... (86 mins.)
Director: Bigas Luna
16.
Octane
(2003)
While on a late night road trip home, a woman must save her rebellious teenage daughter who runs off with a bizarre group of blood-letting psychos. (91 mins.)
Director: Marcus Adams
17.
Pet Sematary
(1989)
Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable. (103 mins.)
Director: Mary Lambert
18.
The Shining
(1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
19.
Misery
(1990)
A famous novelist is "rescued" from a car crash by an obsessed fan. (107 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
20.
The Mist
(2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. (126 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
21.
I Saw the Devil
(2010)
When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge. (141 mins.)
Director: Jee-woon Kim
22.
Oldboy
(2003)
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days. (120 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
23.
Saw
(2004)
With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw". The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them. (103 mins.)
Director: James Wan
24.
Se7en
(1995)
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. (127 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
25.
Primal Fear
(1996)
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. (129 mins.)
Director: Gregory Hoblit
26.
The Devil's Advocate
(1997)
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself. (144 mins.)
Director: Taylor Hackford
27.
Stigmata
(1999)
A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building... (103 mins.)
Director: Rupert Wainwright
28.
The Last House on the Left
(2009)
After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang led by a prison escapee unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging the parents of one of the victims -- a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. (110 mins.)
Director: Dennis Iliadis
29.
The Amityville Horror
(2005)
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder. (90 mins.)
Director: Andrew Douglas
30.
The Omen
(1976)
An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist. (111 mins.)
Director: Richard Donner
31.
Damien: Omen II
(1978)
Damien the Antichrist, now age 13, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark mystical forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity. (107 mins.)
Director: Don Taylor
32.
Omen III: The Final Conflict
(1981)
The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him. (108 mins.)
Director: Graham Baker
33.
The Exorcist
(1973)
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. (122 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
34.
Shutter Island
(2010)
Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby. (138 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
35.
Wolf Creek
(2005)
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive. (99 mins.)
Director: Greg Mclean
36.
The Fly
(1986)
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. (96 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
37.
Diabolique
(1955)
The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women. (114 mins.)
Director: H.G. Clouzot
38.
Fatal Attraction
(1987)
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. (119 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
39.
The Game
(1997)
Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life. (129 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
40.
Dracula
(1992)
The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land. (128 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
41.
Vacancy
(2007)
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film (85 mins.)
Director: Nimród Antal
42.
Irreversible
(2002)
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. (97 mins.)
Director: Gaspar Noé
43.
The Skeleton Key
(2005)
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past. (104 mins.)
Director: Iain Softley
44.
The Silence of the Lambs
(1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. (118 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Demme
45.
The Experiment
(2001)
The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab...
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
46.
Psycho
(1960)
A thirty-something secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
47.
The Hitcher
(1986)
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped. (97 mins.)
Director: Robert Harmon
48.
Frankenstein
(1994)
When Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man he just created, the monster escapes and later swears revenge. (123 mins.)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
49.
Hostel
(2005)
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them. (94 mins.)
Director: Eli Roth
50.
Hostel: Part II
(2007)
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it. (93 mins.)
Director: Eli Roth
51.
Audition
(1999)
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. (115 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
52.
Angel Heart
(1987)
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple... (113 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
53.
Twin Peaks
(1990 TV Series)
An idiosyncratic FBI Agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
54.
Tales from the Crypt
(1989 TV Series)
Tales of horror based on the gruesome EC horror comics of the 1950's.
55.
56.
Rosemary's Baby
(1968)
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. (136 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
57.
The 4th Floor
(1999)
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor. (90 mins.)
Director: Josh Klausner
58.
A Serbian Film
(2010)
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film. (104 mins.)
Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
59.
Eyes Wide Shut
(1999)
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him. (159 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
60.
Minority Report
(2002)
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. (145 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
61.
Phone Booth
(2002)
Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. (81 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
62.
Gothika
(2003)
Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done. (98 mins.)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
63.
The Virgin Suicides
(1999)
A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide. (97 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
64.
A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
65.
Horror Express
(1972)
An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link... (84 mins.)
Director: Gene Martin
66.
The Birds
(1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (119 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
67.
The Dentist
(1996)
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair... (92 mins.)
Director: Brian Yuzna
68.
Pitch Black
(2000)
A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world. (109 mins.)
Director: David Twohy
69.
Hide and Seek
(2005)
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend. (101 mins.)
Director: John Polson
70.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991)
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-101 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000. (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
71.
The Perfect Host
(2010)
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. (93 mins.)
Director: Nick Tomnay
72.
The Machinist
(2004)
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. (101 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
74.
8MM
(1999)
A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not. (123 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
75.
Awake
(2007)
The story focuses on a man who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His mother must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them, while trying to unfold the story hidden behind her son's young wife. (84 mins.)
Director: Joby Harold
76.
The Vanishing
(1993)
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on. (109 mins.)
Director: George Sluizer
77.
Fight Club
(1999)
An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more... (139 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
78.
Derailed
(2005)
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families. (108 mins.)
Director: Mikael Håfström
79.
Sleeping with the Enemy
(1991)
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband. (99 mins.)
Director: Joseph Ruben
80.
Black Swan
(2010)
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. (108 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
81.
Mystic River
(2003)
With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter. (138 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
82.
21 Grams
(2003)
A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother and a born-again ex-con. (124 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
83.
The Butterfly Effect
(2004)
A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life. (113 mins.)
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
84.
Collateral
(2004)
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last victim. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Mann
85.
Snatch.
(2000)
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. (104 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
86.
Man on Fire
(2004)
In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect. (146 mins.)
Director: Tony Scott
87.
Speed
(1994)
A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph. (116 mins.)
Director: Jan de Bont
88.
Amores Perros
(2000)
A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. (154 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
89.
Lost Highway
(1997)
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. (134 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
90.
Panic Room
(2002)
A woman and her teenage daughter become imprisoned in the panic room of their own house by 3 criminals. (112 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
91.
Arbitrage
(2012)
A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help. (107 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
92.
Inside
(2007)
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby. (82 mins.)
Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
93.
The Crow
(1994)
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder. (102 mins.)
Director: Alex Proyas
94.
What Lies Beneath
(2000)
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she's losing her mind. (130 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
95.
War of the Worlds
(2005)
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. (116 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
96.
Inception
(2010)
A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible. (148 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
97.
Sin City
(2005)
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption. (124 mins.)
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
98.
Taken
(2008)
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. (93 mins.)
Director: Pierre Morel
99.
Blue Velvet
(1986)
The gruesome discovery of a severed human ear he found in a field leads a young man on a dark and dangerous journey into a dark and sinister underworld that exists in his hometown. (120 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
100.
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. (118 mins.)
Director: Oliver Stone
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