great thriller movies

Perfectionist, slick, cerebral, visionary… Some would say he’s methodical to a fault, a certified workaholic whose films tread the narrow line between edgy pretentiousness and genius self-awareness. The jury is still out on him, but if there’s something certain with David Fincher is that with him you get the whole package, a thorough professional that’ll […]

Continuing the series of great films recommended by Guillermo del Toro, today we’re taking a look at crime thrillers – a genre the filmmaker is about to work in for the first time with his upcoming “Nightmare Alley.” It may seem like a sudden change of pace for a director better known for his fantasy […]

If there’s something that defines the Coen Brothers, it’s their range. No matter how hard you look, you will find no director working today capable of shifting through different genres, moods and styles quite like this Minnesotan duo. In an industry where almost every other auteur doubles down on their preferred genre to try to […]

From negligent fathers and heroin junkies to bank robbers and self-destructive gamblers. These are the kind of characters that populate the films of the Safdie Brothers. A whole array of crooked individuals who are driven into extremely erratic behavior by their own desperation. If there is a recurrent theme in each of their first four […]

As one of the brightest directors to come out of East-Asia at the turn of the millennium, Bong Joon-ho’s name has experienced a meteoric rise ever since his last movie was released. Parasite made history sweeping some of the most important international awards and becoming the first South Korean film to be honored with the […]

You can never go wrong with a good thriller from a director who knows his business. On this list, we’ve selected ten such films from some of the best directors of all time. From early masterpieces from the Master of Suspense to late-career underrated gems from iconic cineasts of the 1970s, we’ve tried to make […]