Below is a table top rated thriller titles, which we used as a aid in helping us chose our thriller title. We were able to use the below tables to help as chose which thriller sub genre we would try to produce/imitate. in our case we have tried to munipulate a psychological thriller opening.
Rank | Movie Name | Your Rating | Overall | Add | |
1. Trailer | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | 3.33/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Thriller/Horror MPAA rating: R Director: Jonathan Demme Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Anthony Heald Plot: An FBI agent uses the help of Dr. Hannibal Lector, a confined psychopathic killer, to profile a missing person's kidnapper and serial killer. As she comes closer to lector, she shows sign of nervousness. Will she still seek his help to complete the job? | |||||
2. Trailer | Rear Window (1954) | 3.37/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller MPAA rating: PG Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey Plot: A man confined to a wheel chair (James Stewart), has nothing to do except spy on his neighbors. As time goes on, he is convinced they have committed murder. | |||||
3. Trailer | Se7en (1995) | 3.29/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Thriller/Crime MPAA rating: R Director: David Fincher Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow Plot: A retiring officer and his soon-to-be replacement track a serial killer who is using the seven deadly sins as his guide. | |||||
4. | Vertigo (1958) | 3.20/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller MPAA rating: PG Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes Plot: A man with Vertigo investigates his old friend's wife to discover that she may be the cause of his vertigo. | |||||
5. Trailer | Jaws (1975) | 3.17/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Thriller/Horror MPAA rating: PG Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw Plot: A killer great white terrorizes a small community in New England. | |||||
6. Trailer | Shining, The (1980) | 3.29/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Horror/Thriller MPAA rating: R Director: Stanley Kubrick Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd Plot: A man and his family head to a isolated hotel to "house sit." As the loneliness sets in, the husband begins to go insane, while the boy sees things that no one else can.. | |||||
7. Trailer | Taxi Driver (1976) | 3.31/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Crime/Thriller MPAA rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd Plot: A Vietnam vet is a taxi driver who obsesses over a woman, while at the same time he tries to save a young prostitute. His mental instability makes him go to the extreme in certain situations. | |||||
8. Trailer | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.30/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller MPAA rating: PG Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason Plot: A advertising exec is chased cross country while he tries to clear his name in a government mistake. In the end, he can't tell who is on his side. | |||||
9. Trailer | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) | 3.27/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Drama/Thriller MPAA rating: PG-13 Director: John Frankenheimer Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh Plot: Former POW's recall the same events of a heroic moment, but have nightmares that the event occurred different than remembered. | |||||
10. Trailer | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 3.24/4 | |||
Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller MPAA rating: R Director: Bryan Singer Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro Plot: Five men are hauled into a New York jail for separate crimes but end up working together. The police are trying to get to the bottom of who blew up a boat and killed almost all of the passengers, but will they find out in time to arrest the right man? |
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