The Maniac (1963)

The Maniac (1963)

[7] Kerwin Mathews (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) stars an American painter who strikes up an affair with mother and daughter barkeeps in rural France. He agrees to help them break their patriarch from an asylum where he's been sentenced…
I Care a Lot (2020)

I Care a Lot (2020)

[7] Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) gives a powerhouse performance as a ruthless, court-appointed legal guardian who preys upon her elderly wards, draining their savings and selling off their assets for her own financial gain. But she finally meets her match…
Black Friday (1940)

Black Friday (1940)

[3] Boris Karloff stars as a doctor who transplants the brain of a gangster into the body of a dying professor (both played by Stanley Ridges), then tries to get the convalescing professor to remember -- with his new brain…
Hollow Man (2000)

Hollow Man (2000)

[6] Elisabeth Shue (Adventures in Babysitting) stars as a scientist working on an invisibility experiment for the U.S. military in this thriller from director Paul Verhoeven (Spetters, RoboCop). Things are looking good until her brilliant cohort and ex-boyfriend, played by…
Cliffhanger (1993)

Cliffhanger (1993)

[6] Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight) directs Sylvester Stallone in this serviceable, high altitude actioner about a mountain rescue team that gets embroiled with deadly thieves searching for money they've lost in the snow-topped Rockies during…
Alligator (1980)

Alligator (1980)

[7] Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, The Black Hole) stars as a police detective in this better-than-average monster movie about a giant alligator that terrorizes the Chicago suburbs. Screenwriter John Sayles (Passion Fish, Lone Star) probably deserves most of the credit,…
Black Widow (1987)

Black Widow (1987)

[4] Debra Winger plays a federal investigator on the trail of a 'black widow,' a woman (Theresa Russell) who marries and murders one rich man after another, collecting inheritances as she goes. It's great to see Debra Winger in anything,…
Underwater (2020)

Underwater (2020)

[7] After an earthquake devastates their facilities at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a handful of deep sea drillers decide their only chance of surviving is to walk along the ocean floor to another nearby facility miles away. But…
Crawl (2019)

Crawl (2019)

[7] Director Alexandre Aja (High Tension) serves up a father/daughter survival thriller that takes place primarily in a basement full of alligators during a hurricane. Sound preposterous? Well, that's part of the charm. But Aja and screenwriters Michael and Shawn…
Double Indemnity (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)

[8] Chameleon master craftsman Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) staked a name for himself and elevated low-budget film noir to new levels of respectability with his Hitchcockian suspense yarn Double Indemnity. The film, co-written by Wilder and Raymond…