15 highly recommended thrillers and mystery films

A selection of feature films full of intrigue, investigations and attempts to "read minds".

It is not uncommon to hear someone say that they were glued to the seat or hooked to the seat watching a movie. And the fact is that 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 expectation of knowing what is going to happen to the characters reflected in them.

Perhaps the word we are looking for is suspense. And although a large number of films generate this feeling, there is a film genre focused especially on this aspect: the suspense or thriller film (although it often appears together with other genres and themes). Throughout this article we are going to see a small section of suspense movies that will leave us hooked to the chair.

Thriller movies full of intrigue

Here we leave you with a brief compilation and description of some great thrillers, all of them highly recommended. Among them we can find classics, more recent films and some feature films that have gone rather unnoticed.

Psycho (1960)

A Hitchcock classic. It tells the story of Marion, who has stolen money from his boss and fled and then takes refuge in a roadside motel run by the Bates. The young woman is murdered while taking a shower. Her boyfriend and her sister, noticing her disappearance, begin their search.

2. The Rear Window (1954)

This film tells the story of Jefferies, who must rest at home after breaking his leg. The protagonist is dedicated to look out the window with binoculars to different neighbors of the building across the street so as not to get bored. However, he observes a fight between one of his neighbors and his wife, who disappears. This makes him suspect that the neighbor has killed his wife.Our protagonist (with the help of his girlfriend) tries to investigate the facts.

3. Basic Instinct (1992)

This film narrates the investigation into the murder of a singer, being his girlfriend, a writer, the main suspect.. She will be interrogated due to the resemblance of the singer's murder with one of her novels, and little by little it is discovered that it is not the first time that someone of the author's environment dies in similar circumstances, having written books in which she narrated similar stories.

As the investigation proceeds, the writer seduces the agent on the case in what is probably the most iconic leg-crossing in cinema.

4. The Name of the Rose (1986)

This film, based on the novel of the same name, tells the story of the investigation the investigation carried out by Friar William of Baskerville and his assistant, Adso de Melk, in order to clarify several deaths in the to clarify several deaths in the abbey of the Order of St. Benedict in the 14th century, although originally they go to the abbey to take part in a meeting between representatives of the Pope and the Franciscans (since they are 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 occurs 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 it is concluded that there is some kind of infiltrator or traitor. there is some kind 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 on an island where a psychiatric hospital is located in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, who had been admitted after drowning her 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 going on. Also noteworthy is the fact that Agent Daniels experiences flashbacks of the war of the war and the death of his wife and children, which was caused by an inmate of the same sanatorium they are investigating.

7. Inception (2010)

Interesting thriller and science fiction 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 get information, are hired to convince the son of a rival businessman of the contracting party to end his company by implementing that idea.

But dream travel has its risks, such as the possibility of not knowing whether they are in a dream or in reality, and the possibility of entering into an infinite limbo of dreaming from which it is not possible to get out.

8. The Oxford Crimes (2008)

The film shows us how a young Oxford student begins to stay at the house of a woman who participated in the deciphering of the Enigma Code. The woman is murdered, and the young man's logic professor (who knew the woman) receives a note warning that this 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 aftermath of World War II, it tells the story of a woman named Grace who lives with her children (who suffer from photosensitivity) in a Victorian mansion while waiting for her husband to return from the war, providing them with a rigid religious education 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 servants, explaining to them the strict rules she has in this respect.. But strange phenomena begin to occur in the house.

10. Argo (2012)

Argo is a film based on real events that tells the story of 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 they escaped from being kidnapped along with other diplomats in the embassy by a group of Iranian revolutionaries.

11. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Well-known thriller, with an unexpected plot twist, which tells us how Cole Sear has the gift of perceiving the dead and how the psychologist Malcolm Crowe tries to help him, with serious doubts about his own abilities due to an incident in which a patient shot him and subsequently committed suicide.

Throughout the film we will see how Cole interacts with different ghostsIn the end, he begins to accept his gift and even confesses it to his mother, while Malcolm helps him to accept his gift and suffers from a cooling of his relationship with his wife.

12. The Da Vinci Code

Based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name, The Da Vinci Code begins with the murder of a restaurateur by a monk in the Louvre, leaving a coded message before his death. Professor and symbology expert Robert Langdon is summoned to the scene of the crime to help the police, and together with the murdered man's granddaughter (also a cryptographer) he proceeds to launch 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 us the story of a small rural town that lives in fear of the presence of the frightened by the presence of monsters in the woods that surround them.They have to 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 getting out of his 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 elaborates a series of rules in order not to harm his loved ones with the idea that his behavior resembles that of a serial killer (in which he has great interest). In this context, a series of murders caused by a real serial killer begin to take place in the village**.