An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.
Harry Lime in the sewers of occupied Vienna, the zither theme and the Ferris wheel speech.
Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
Two Victorian magicians destroy each other over a single trick.
A surveillance expert becomes convinced he has recorded a murder.
The Israeli squad sent after the Black September operatives, and what it costs them.
The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.
A guilt-ridden detective cannot sleep through the Alaskan midnight sun.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance.
A salesman is hunted down a desert highway by a truck with no visible driver.
A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.
Jordan Peele's horror film about a weekend at the white girlfriend's parents.
A wife disappears and a media circus decides her husband did it.
A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.
A Greenlandic-Danish scientist investigates a boy's fall from a roof in Copenhagen.
A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a forty-year-old disappearance; Larsson's Millennium trilogy begins.
Lisbeth Salander framed for three murders and her father's secret.
Salander in hospital, on trial and vindicated; the last book Larsson finished.
Amy Dunne vanishes and her diary tells one story; the twist halfway changed thrillers.
A novelist held captive by his number-one fan; the hobbling scene.
A hunter takes a case of drug money and Anton Chigurh follows with a coin; the Coens changed little.
Richard Hannay hunted across Scotland by spies in 1914; the chase thriller begins.
Four characters hunt the Origami Killer; quick-time events as drama.
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