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Thriller Movies After A Long Week From The 80S And 90S

Thriller movies after a long week from the 80s and 90s. Includes A Perfect World, Eyes Wide Shut, The Fugitive and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Five days of relentless noise, and now this. Finally.

A Perfect World movie poster
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1993 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Eyes Wide Shut movie poster
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1999 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

The Fugitive movie poster
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1993 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Thesis movie poster
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1996 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Barton Fink movie poster
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1991 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.

Tension on screen, none in your head afterward. Good release.

The Insider movie poster
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1999 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Miller's Crossing movie poster
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1990 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

Open Your Eyes movie poster
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1997 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan movie poster
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1982 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

The Vanishing movie poster
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1988 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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