Charade (1963)
[7] Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) film about a recent widow fighting off a handful of mysterious bad guys who believe she knows where her husband was keeping a stolen quarter…
The January Man (1989)
[3] I don't know what the hell I just saw. I could tell you what it's about, but it'd be misleading. See, it's about a discharged cop (Kevin Kline) who is roped back into the police to help them find…
Enemy (2013)
[6] Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this ambiguous mystery about a man who becomes obsessed with tracking down his perfect doppelganger. Upon meeting, the two men (both played by Gyllenhaal) are confused, jealous, and fearful of each other. Things come to…
Stay (2005)
[3] In this morose and supremely depressing film from Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland), a troubled college student (Ryan Gosling) seeks the help of a shrink (Ewan McGregor), who then investigates the boy's life to see if there might…
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)
[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)
[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…
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)
[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…
Bullitt (1968)
[6] Steve McQueen stars as a San Francisco cop charged with protecting a mobster who is about to squeal for a US senator. When the witness is killed, McQueen works around the clock to discern the identity of the killers…