Thriller Movies Bucket List

Get off my plane: the president fights hijackers at thirty thousand feet.

One night, one taxi and a grey-haired contract killer working through a list; Los Angeles shot on digital.

One shift with a Los Angeles narcotics detective who is the worst thing on his own beat.

A British agent fights her way through Berlin in November 1989, in one seven-minute stairwell take.

A surgeon framed for his wife’s murder, and the marshal who does not care whether he did it.

A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist chase a pink diamond through the Sierra Leone civil war.

A tobacco scientist blows the whistle on his industry and 60 Minutes decides whether to air it.

A Philadelphia detective hides among the Amish with a boy who saw a murder.

A young lawyer joins a New York firm run by Al Pacino, who is also Satan.

A burnt-out bodyguard in Mexico City tears the city apart looking for the girl he was hired to protect.

Gilliam's time-loop plague film, with Pitt twitching his way to an Oscar nomination.

A backpacker finds a secret Thai island commune, and then finds out what it costs to keep it secret.

Four Chicago widows finish the robbery their husbands died on.

A London gangster goes home to Newcastle to find out how his brother died; British noir at its coldest.

A gallery owner reads her ex-husband’s novel, and the novel plays out beside her life.

Lecter in Florence ten years on, and a dinner scene that lost the film half its audience.

A CIA operative in Jordan invents a terrorist group to flush out a real one.

Getty refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom; Plummer replaced Spacey in nine days of reshoots.

A lawyer takes one drug deal and cannot take it back; the only screenplay Cormac McCarthy wrote for the screen.

A Queens detective is put on a Manhattan murder witness and falls for her.

A Texas bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife, and every man misreads what happened.

A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.

Two New York cops escort a yakuza home to Osaka and lose him on the tarmac.

Cruise on the outside of the Burj Khalifa, and the sandstorm chase.

A motorbike off a Norwegian cliff and a train falling into a ravine, carriage by carriage.