It is not uncommon to hear someone say that they were glued to the seat or hooked to the seat while watching a movie. And within the so-called seventh art we can find great works that are capable of making us live a thousand lives, and that keep us in suspense and in the expectation of knowing what is going to happen to the characters that are reflected in them.
Perhaps the word we are looking for is suspense. And although a large number of films generate this sensation in us, there is a film genre focused especially on this aspect: suspense or thriller films. (although it very frequently appears together with other genres and themes). Throughout this article we are going to see a small section of thriller movies that they are going to leave us hooked to the chair.
Below we leave you with a brief compilation and description of some great suspense films, all of them highly recommended. Among them we can find classics, more recent films, some feature films that have gone rather unnoticed.
1. Psycho (1960)
A Hitchcock classic It tells the story of Marion, who has stolen money from her boss and fled from her and later takes refuge in a roadside motel run by the Bates. The young woman is murdered while she is showering. Her boyfriend and her sister, upon noticing her disappearance, begin the search for her.
2. Rear Window (1954)
In this film we are told the story of Jefferies, who must rest at home after breaking his leg. The protagonist spends his time looking out the window with binoculars at different neighbors in the building opposite so as not to get bored. However, he comes to observe a fight between one of his neighbors and his wife, who disappears. It makes him suspect that the neighbor has killed his wife trying to investigate our protagonist (with the help of his girlfriend) the facts.
This film tells us the investigation regarding the murder of a singer, the main suspect being his girlfriend, a writer She will be questioned due to the similarity of the singer’s murder with one of her novels, and little by little it is discovered that this is not the first time that someone close to the author dies in similar circumstances, the woman having written books in which she narrated similar stories.
While the investigation is taking place, the writer seduces the agent handling the case, in what is probably the most iconic crossing of legs in cinema.
4. The Name of the Rose (1986)
This film, based on the novel of the same name, tells us the investigation carried out by Brother William of Baskerville and his assistant Adso de Melk to clarify several deaths in the abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict, in the 14th century, although they originally went to said abbey to take part in a meeting between representatives of the Pope and the Franciscans (since they were in conflict).
5. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Throughout this film we see the story of a gang of robbers preparing to rob a warehouse, but the police were already waiting for them. A confrontation ensues in which several people die, including several members of the gang, and the rest of the gang ends up fleeing. They hide in a warehouse, where they come to the conclusion that there is some type of infiltrator or traitor
6. Shutter Island (2010)
This film, based on a novel of the same name, tells how Inspector Daniels and Agent Aule arrive at an island where a psychiatric hospital is located in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, who had been admitted after having drowned. to his children.
But from the beginning the agents see that the case hides something more sinister, finding small details that alarm them and make them see that there is something strange afoot. It also highlights the fact that Agent Daniels is experiencing flashbacks of the war and the death of his wife and children, which was caused by an inmate of the same sanatorium that they are investigating.
Interesting science fiction thriller film that tells us how Dom Cobb and his team, who have the ability to infiltrate the dreams of others while they sleep in an induced sleep and manage to obtain information, are hired to convince the son of a businessman rival of the contracting party to end his company by implementing that idea.
But traveling through dreams has its risks, such as the possibility of not knowing if you are in a dream or reality, and the possibility of entering an infinite limbo of sleep from which it is not possible to get out.
8. The Oxford Murders (2008)
The film shows us how a young Oxford student begins to stay in the house of a woman who participated in the deciphering of the Enigma Code. The woman is murdered, and the young man’s logic teacher (who knew the woman) receives a note warning that it is the first of several murders. Both proceed to investigate the case, working from the different clues that the murderer leaves with each crime.
9. The Others (2001)
Spanish film set in the moments after the Second World War, it tells us how a woman named Grace lives with her children (who suffer from photosensitivity) in a Victorian mansion while she waits for her husband to return from the war, providing them with a rigid type of education. religious and trying to maintain a high level of control over everything that happens in the home.
The woman decides to hire several people to work as domestic help, explaining to them the strict rules it has in this regard But strange phenomena begin to occur in the house.
10. Argo (2012)
Argo is a film based on real events that tells us about the difficult plan that CIA specialist Tony Mendez developed (pretending to be making a fictional film in the country), to extract a group of American diplomats from Iran, after having escaped. of being kidnapped along with other diplomats at the embassy by a group of Iranian revolutionaries.
11. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Well-known thriller film, with an unexpected script twist, which tells us how Cole Sear has the gift of perceiving the dead and how psychologist Malcolm Crowe tries to help him, with serious doubts about his own abilities due to an incident in which a patient He shot him and later committed suicide.
Throughout the film we will see how Cole interact with different ghosts begins to accept his gift and even confesses it to his mother, while Malcolm helps him accept his gift while suffering from a cooling of his relationship with his wife.
12. The Da Vinci Code
Based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code begins with the murder of a restaurateur by a monk in the Louvre, leaving a coded message before dying. Professor and symbology expert Robert Langdon is summoned to the crime scene to help the police, and together with the granddaughter (also a cryptographer) of the murdered man, he will proceed to begin an investigation that will lead them to search for the Holy Grail.
13. The Forest (2004)
This film, whose original title is “The Village”, tells the story of a small rural town that lives in fear of the presence of monsters in the forests that surround them, and that they must follow a series of rules in order to stay safe (including not going into the forest). But some of its inhabitants dream of what may lie beyond the forest.
14. The Wave (2008)
Based on the well-known novel of the same name (which in turn is based on real events), this film tells us about an experiment carried out by a history teacher in order to make his students understand, simulating the establishment of an autocratic regime known as The Third Wave that ends up escaping its control.
15. I am not a serial killer (2016)
Little-known thriller about a young man with sociopathic tendencies and a taste for the morbid and macabre, who creates a series of rules with the aim of not harming his loved ones given the idea that his behavior resembles that of a murderer. in series (in which he has great interest). In this context, a series of murders caused by a real serial killer begin to happen in the town.** The young man will decide to start an investigation about it**.
