North by Northwest (1959) is an American spy thriller, starring Gary grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, when an innocent man is pursued across America by agents of a mysterious organization who think that he is trying to stop them in their plan to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets out of the country,
This is a typical plot line to a spy thriller as it is a case of some random person getting caught up in a mess with dangerous men/women, in which he has nothing to do with.
Orphan (2009) is an American psychological/Horror thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and Isabella Fuhrman. the filom cnetre on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopts a mysterious nine year old girl named Esther.
Esther is not a normal 9 year old girl, this is suggested in the film by her behaviour patterns, we start to notice there is something speciously wrong when she kills her ex carer from her orphanage who comes to visit her in cold blood with a hammer. She then hides her body.
As the film goes on we learn that Esther is actually a 33 year old women pretending to be a child in order to prevent herself from going to prison for her early life prostitution. She escaped from an Estonion mental institute called The Saarne Institute. We are told that she suffers from Hypopituitarism, a disease that stunts growth permanently, subsequently making Esther feel like a women trapped inside a 9 year old girls body.
Esther had previously killed 7 people and is planning on seducing the dad of her foster family. If this was to fail, which it did, she would go on a rampage and attempt to kill the whole foster family. this is fortunately prevented by the mother, Kate, the father is stabbed to death by Esther after she rejected him.
Carrie (1976) is a supernatural American Horror/Psychological thriller. It was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Sissy Spacek. Carrie (sissy) is a 17 year old shy, friendless girl, abused by her unstable mother Margaret, who is a religious fanatic.
As Carrie is socially inept and frequently deluded to society and her surroundings, she gets bullied and teased by the 'popular kids' in her school. What they don't know though is that Carrie, when angry is an extremely dangerous character, this is being she is telepathic. Our first clue of this is when she is screaming and crying, a light bulb in the shower she is in breaks.
As the film progresses Carrie get bullied more and more and eventually gets to a breaking point in which she is in a prom and gets pigs blood poured over her head, she ends up killing everybody in the prom room, regardless of their innocent status.
Scarface is an American Crime/Drama thriller, starring a young Al Pachino, directed by Brian De Palma. Sacrface tells the story of a Cuben refugee, Tony Montana (Pachino) who arrives in 1980's Miami with nothing but the clothes on his back and eventually makes his way up to become a powerful drug kingpin.
Being one of Pachino's earlier films, it was crucial he got this one right. Although he did not win any major awards for "best actor", he did have a line that it famous worldwide. The line is when Pachino gets a heavy duty gun and before letting rip says, "You wanna play huh? ok..Say Hello to my little friend!".
Get Carter is one of the few successful British crime films directed by Mike Hodges starring the brilliant Michael Caine. The film is about a London gangster (Jack carter) played by Caine, travelling back to his home town to discover more links and event surrounding his brothers supposedly-accident death. Understandably suspecting something he further investigates and interrogates the case.
With vengance on his mind, Michael Caine + City with a hardened criminal element = Violent conclusion .
Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime thriller, directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and many other brilliant actors.The film is best known for its electric dialogue, ironic mix of humor and dialogue and many memorable lines. It is thought of by many as one of the best films ever made.
It was also a major critical and commercial success with it winning Academy Award's, BAFTA awards, Cannes film festive awards, Golden Globe awards and National Society of Film Critics Awards.
The Da Vinci code is an american mystery/conspiracy thriller directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. In the film, the protagonist Robert Langdon, a professor at Harvard university, is the prime suspect of a grisly, unusual murder. He escaped with the assistance of a french policewomen, Sophie Neveu and they begin a quest for the legendary Holy Grail.
They are told that the actual Holy Grail is explicitly encoded in the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting 'The last Supper' This proves to be problematic for the two over the course of the film.
