What are your favorite Thriller\Mystery\Noir Movies

[bigsierra]

This has always been my favorite genre. It must have started when I saw Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief as a younster. Little did I know, there were more great ones to follow, with Rear Window and Vertigo amongst others. I finally saw Touch of Evil recently, and besides being a little dated, it was excellent.

Hitchcock's mysteries are my favorites, but I will watch about any. Palmetto stunk, but I still enjoyed the atmosphere and the look. Don't miss the B/W version of Cape Fear. I actually found it a bit more intense than the remake.

Edited to add Leon-The Professional to my list.

What are some of your favorites?

 

[elanor]

I have very little experience with the thriller genre because I just don't like it. I don't like being needlessly frightened. However, I have seen a few films (generally under duress), and must say that despite how graphic and gory it is, I do think 'Silence of the Lambs" was brilliant. It was extremely well-acted, and well-directed--particularly the scene of the police closing in on the house where they thought the killer was, while Clarisse simultaneously was approaching another house alone. I held my breath through the whole of that scene.

For mysteries, though, I think one of my favorites is "Murder By Death," with Christopher Reeves, Michael Caine, and Dianne Cannon.

 

[EternalotnemeM]

While not my favorite, but it's up there on my list, I do want to mention the classic The Third Man. Not only because it's a great film, but the main theme is awesome.

My favoirte (and also my favorite film period) film of this type is Memento.

 

[bigsierra]

Thrillers definately don't have to be graphic and gory. Here is the top 10 Thrillers as listed by IMDB:
Rear Window (1954)
Memento (2000)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
North by Northwest (1959)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Psycho (1960)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
M (1931)
Vertigo (1958)

Most of those are pretty tame on the graphic side.

 

[nadroj1985]

Great list, bigsierra. I particularly like Rear Window and Memento

 

[Cozmo]

The Usual Suspects was good because of the surprise ending, tho S7ven is very good as well. Mainly murder mysteries are usually our favorite. The cussing gets under my skin real bad tho. They can kill a movie for me because of that. Not that TV is much better and unfortunately, taking the Lords name in vain is all too rampant on the idiot box. Errr... small screen, I mean.

MrsCoZMo really likes The Silence of the Lambs but I must admit I don't care for it. We both didn't like Hannibal, either. I thought Red Dragon was so much better than the first two, but that's probably because I think Edward Norton is a great actor. Have you ever seen The Score? That was extremely good.

God bless!

 

[Shekinahs]

I like movies such as The Order, Revelations, Stigmata or the Omega Code series. I like that genre of films. It's my favorite.

 

[KateBeckinsaleAdmirer]

The Fugitive
The Game
Jagged Edge
No Way Out
Presmued Innocent

 

[Philothea]

The Omen Trilogy