Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc on the set of ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.’ Photo: Courtesy of John Wilson/Netflix © 2022.
Everyone loves a great thriller, proper?
The rise within the style’s recognition is a results of field workplace successes like Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot sequence, together with ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ and ‘Death on the Nile,’ and director Rian Johnson‘s ‘Knives Out,’ and its new sequel, ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,’ which is presently in theaters and premieres on Netflix December twenty third.
In honor of ‘Glass Onion’s launch, Moviefone is counting down the 25 best thriller motion pictures of all time!
Without additional ado, seize your detective hat and let’s start!
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, every one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a darkish previous. In the course of a fateful night time, everybody may have one final shot at redemption. Starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, and Chris Hemsworth.
Based on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie, “Death on the Nile” is a daring mystery-thriller concerning the emotional chaos and lethal penalties triggered by obsessive love. Kenneth Branagh, again as the enduring detective Hercule Poirot, is joined by Tom Bateman, four-time Oscar® nominee Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.
On a long-awaited journey to Europe, a New York City cop (Adam Sandler) and his hairdresser spouse (Jennifer Aniston) scramble to unravel a baffling homicide aboard a billionaire’s yacht.
In a world the place folks accumulate pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy (Justice Smith) comes throughout an clever monster (Ryan Reynolds) who seeks to be a detective.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Doctor John Watson (Jude Law) battle to convey down a brand new nemesis and unravel a lethal plot that might destroy England.
When Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins listening to ghostly voices and seeing spooky pictures, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is attempting to contact her. All the whereas, her husband (Harrison Ford) tries to reassure her by telling her it is all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the person she loves would possibly know greater than he is letting on.
What Lies Beneath
“He was the perfect husband until his one mistake followed them home.”
64
2 hr 10 minJul twenty first, 2000
Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a devoted mom and widespread vlogger, befriends Emily (Blake Lively), a mysterious upper-class lady whose son Nicky attends the identical faculty as Miles, Stephanie’s son. When Emily asks her to select Nicky up from faculty after which disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that may dive deep into Emily’s cloudy previous.
Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a father or mother’s worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich), and her buddy go lacking. The solely lead is an previous motorhome that had been parked on their road. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), arrests the driving force, however an absence of proof forces Loki to launch his solely suspect. Dover, figuring out that his daughter’s life is at stake, decides that he has no alternative however to take issues into his personal palms.
After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a snowboarding vacation within the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to a few of her late husband’s World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who’re after 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} the quartet stole whereas behind enemy traces. But why does Peter maintain altering his identify?
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Robert Altman, in 1930’s England, a gaggle of pretentious wealthy and well-known collect collectively for a weekend of rest at a looking resort. But when a homicide happens, every one among these attention-grabbing characters turns into a suspect.
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters despatched to London to interview Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg), a rich designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike once more, and this timeframe Miss Piggy. It’s as much as Kermit and Muppets to convey the true culprits to justice.
With his spouse’s (Rosamund Pike) disappearance having turn out to be the main focus of an intense media circus, a person (Ben Affleck) sees the highlight turned on him when it is suspected that he is probably not harmless.
11. Laura (1944)
A police detective (Dana Andrews) falls in love with the girl (Gene Tierney) whose homicide he is investigating.
Laura
“The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!”
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1 hr 28 minOct eleventh, 1944
twentieth Century Fox
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates the homicide of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express prepare.
A personal eye (Ryan Gosling) and a thug (Russell Crowe) examine the obvious suicide of a fading porn star in Seventies Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch’s niece from 40 years in the past. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk laptop hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). As they work collectively within the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption past something they’ve ever imagined.
Two murder detectives are on a determined hunt for a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) whose crimes are based mostly on the “seven deadly sins” on this darkish and haunting movie that takes viewers from the tortured stays of 1 sufferer to the following. The seasoned Det. Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) researches every sin in an effort to get contained in the killer’s thoughts, whereas his novice accomplice, Mills (Brad Pitt), scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is monitoring down the person who raped and murdered his spouse. The problem of finding his spouse’s killer, nonetheless, is compounded by the truth that he suffers from a uncommon, untreatable type of short-term reminiscence loss. Although he can recall particulars of life earlier than his accident, Leonard can’t bear in mind what occurred fifteen minutes in the past, the place he is going, or why.
Focus Features
A petty thief (Robert Downey Jr.) posing as an actor is dropped at Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the course of a homicide investigation alongside together with his highschool dream woman (Michelle Monaghan) and a detective (Val Kilmer) who’s been coaching him for his upcoming function…
When famend crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is discovered useless at his property simply after his eighty fifth birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to research. From Harlan’s dysfunctional household to his devoted employees, Blanc sifts via an internet of pink herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the reality behind Harlan’s premature demise.
1. Clue (1985)
Paramount Pictures
Clue finds six colourful dinner friends (Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren) gathered on the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving) — who turns up useless after his secret is uncovered: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer amongst them, the friends and Boddy’s chatty butler (Tim Curry) should suss out the perpetrator earlier than the physique rely rises.
Clue
“Seven Suspects, Six Weapons, Five Bodies and Three Endings.”
72
1 hr 34 minDec thirteenth, 1985