Wednesday 27 September 2017

Similar Crime Thriller films



Silence of the Lambs(1991)
 This movie is of the crime thriller genre and stars the actor Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, acting as a student in the FBI's training academy, closly analying the behavouir of serial killers. She is choosen to complete a special assignment of a murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and removes their skin as almost a trophy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the head of the FBI training wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a violent psychopath, behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that she could manipulate him as an attractive young woman. Lecter does know of the case, but his information is concealed as he is a very clever man but for exchange he makes an offer to Clarice. For telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he asks personal questions to  Clarice about her past, forcing her to reveal her traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. 

Se7en(1995)
This movie is a crime thriller, starring the director David Fincher. The movie is set in New York city, with the actor Morgan Freeman (as William Somerset), a homicide specialist. Before retiring he completes one last case, for which he is teamed with young David Mills (Brad Pitt), the detective set to replace him at the end of the week. A serial killer is staging violent murders, choosing victims each to represent the seven deadly sins. First case, an obese man is forced to eat until his stomach ruptures to represent gluttony, then a wealthy defense lawyer is made to cut off a pound of his own flesh as penance for greed. Somerset initially refuses to take the case, realizing that there will be five more murders, ghastly sermons about lust, sloth, pride, wrath, and envy presented by a madman to a sinful world. Somerset is correct, and something within him cannot let the case go, forcing the weary detective to team with Mills and see the case to its almost unspeakably horrible conclusion.

Gone Girl (2014)

Directed by David Fincher, this crime thriller is based upon the heart of a modern marriage being a perfect picture however underneath multiple lies. On the occasion of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Buliding pressure from the police and growing media reports, begin to make Nick crumble, revealing his lies, deceits and strange behavior. This has everyone asking the same question, did he in fact kill his wife and frame her to be missing? 

Taken(2008) 


                                   
 Full of intense drama and violence, this crime movie features an ex-soldier (Liam Neeson) traveling through Europe. He then embarks on a frantic quest to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) after he is abducted by slave traders in District B13.

Psycho(1960)  
Featuring the character of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in this crime film, her unhappyness is shown towards her job at a Phoenix, Arizona real estate office. Her romance is frustrating her, with the hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life. 36 hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the Bates Motel, where nervous but personable innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks, before he regales her with curious stories about his mother. 

Heat(1995)

 
Featuring a successful career criminal, and a cop desperately triying to put him behind bars.  Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs, such as banks and armored cars. With his bright, methodical skills he is very successful in what he does. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is an L.A.P.D. detective determined to catch McCauley. While McCauley has enough money to retire and is planning to move to New Zealand, he loves the thrill of what he does, and is blocking out plans for one more job; meanwhile, he's met a woman, Eady (Amy Brenneman).

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