5 Thriller Movie You Must Watch

The Departed(2006)

This movie is based on a Hong Kong film named Internal Affairs. The story of the film goes through a conflict between an undercover cop and a mole taking the place in Boston. The movie received many awards including Academy Awards for best writing, Adapted Screenplay. So you are suggested to watch this movie.

     

Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy follow opposite sides of the law: Billy Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get evidence to arrest him. His true identity is known only by his superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. The protégé of Costello, Colin Sullivan, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police and is the informer of Costello. Each police officer gives his best effort trying to disclose the identity of the other "rat."

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga

Duration: 2h 31min

 Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller 

Shutter Island(2010)

Here is a psychological thriller movie. The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The mystery of this movie will entertain well. The movie Shutter Island got good reviews. You must watch the movie. The ending of the movie will leave you unjustified.

The implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located on a remote, windswept island. The woman appears to have vanished from a locked room, and there are hints of terrible deeds committed within the hospital walls. As the investigation deepens, Teddy realizes he will have to confront his own dark fears if he hopes to make it off the island alive.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams

Duration: 2h 18min

 Genre: Action / Mystery / Thriller 

Das Boot(1981)

The movie is an adaptation From a German Novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. The film is set during World War II and tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.

It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of the crew of one such U-Boat, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, all the while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.

Director: Wolfgang Peterson

Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann

Duration: 3h 29min

 Genre: Drama / Thriller 

Seven(1995)

The movie tells the story of David Mills (Pitt), a young detective who is partnered with the retiring William Somerset (Freeman) and soon tasked with tracking down a serial killer (Spacey) who uses the seven deadly sins as tropes in his murders.

Taking place in a nameless city, Se7en follows the story of two homicide detectives tracking down a sadistic serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. Brad Pitt stars as Detective David Mills, a hopeful but naive rookie who finds himself partnered with veteran Detective William Somerset. Together they trace the killer's every step, witnessing the aftermath of his horrific crimes one by one as the victims pile up in rapid succession, all the while moving closer to a gruesome fate neither of them could have predicted.

Director: David Fincher

Cast: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow

Duration: 2h 8min

 Genre: Drama / Thriller 

The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to confront her psychological demons but leads her face to face with a demented, heinous killer, an incarnation of evil so powerful, that she may not have the courage -- or strength -- to stop him!

Director: Jonathan Damme

Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Duration: 2h 18min

 Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller