Rendition (2007)

Rendition (2007)

[6] In the world of shady post-9/11 politics, an innocent man (Omar Metwally) is seized by the CIA and tortured in a foreign country while his wife (Reese Witherspoon) and a doubtful CIA analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) work on opposite sides…
Body Heat (1981)

Body Heat (1981)

[7] Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist) made his directorial debut with Body Heat, about a woman who convinces her lover to murder her husband. You'll never see William Hurt or Kathleen Turner sweatier (or hotter) than this.…
Nightcrawler (2014)

Nightcrawler (2014)

[8] Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a morally bankrupt ambulance chaser who sells gruesome crime video to L.A. television stations. First-time writer/director Dan Gilroy paints an interesting portrait of a disturbed man who may reflect our times more accurately than we're…
What Lies Beneath (2000)

What Lies Beneath (2000)

[7] Is Michelle Pfeiffer seeing a ghost in her lakeside home, or is she just losing her mind? That's the premise behind this intimate thriller from director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future). Pfeiffer does a fine job…
Gone Girl (2014)

Gone Girl (2014)

[7] Ben Affleck stars as a man whose wife appears to have been violently abducted from their home. Due to his unusually calm demeanor, the local law enforcement and the public both begin to think he might have killed her,…
Pacific Heights (1990)

Pacific Heights (1990)

[7] Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine rent out a room of their San Francisco dream home to the tenant from Hell and barely escape to tell the tale. Michael Keaton plays the psycho boarder, a guy who hammers and makes…
The Getaway (1972)

The Getaway (1972)

[7] An ex-con and his wife are on the lam after a heist goes bad in this flick from Sam Peckinpah (Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch). Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw star as the central couple. She has to sleep…
Basic Instinct (1992)

Basic Instinct (1992)

[8] Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Soldier of Orange) directs this sexually super-charged Hitchcockian thriller about a San Francisco detective (Michael Douglas) investigating a seductive writer (Sharon Stone) about a murder case that plays out similar to one of her novels. As…
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

[5] Talk about a hard pitch. Try to follow me here. So, there's this kid. And whenever something dramatic is about to happen to him, his memory blacks out. He basically jumps a minute or two into the future, all…
Snowpiercer (2014)

Snowpiercer (2014)

[9] South Korean director Bong Joon-ho (Mother, The Host) directs this tale of class warfare set in an ice-age Armageddon wherein the last few living humans reside aboard a technologically advanced train that constantly circumnavigates the globe. Chris Evans (Captain…